Suicide Blast Kills 3 US Soldiers, Contractor in Afghanistan

[rangerrebew]

Suicide Blast Kills 3 US Soldiers, Contractor in Afghanistan
April 08, 2019 4:20 PM update April 08, 2019 6:25 PM

    Carla Babb



PENTAGON/ISLAMABAD - An attack outside Kabul, Afghanistan, has killed three U.S. service members and one American contractor, according to the U.S. military.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokesman Army Col. David Butler told VOA a vehicle-borne bomb exploded near a convoy on a security patrol near Bagram Air Base, the largest U.S. military base in the country. The base is about 50 kilometers north of Kabul.

The U.S. military medically evacuated three other U.S. service members who were wounded in the attack. Butler said the three troops are now in stable condition.

https://www.voanews.com/a/three-us-service-members-one-contractor-killed-in-afghanistan/4867091.html

[TomSea]

Flags lowered in memory of Marines killed in Afghanistan
By Associated Press
April 10

NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered flags lowered to half-staff in memory of two Marine Corps reservists from New York who were killed in Afghanistan.

Cpl. Robert A. Hendriks and Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman were killed by a roadside bomb Monday along with Sgt. Benjamin S. Hines, of York, Pennsylvania.

...

Lorraine Caliendo says Hendriks’ brother Joseph, also a Marine, had just started a tour in Afghanistan but instead will be escorting his coffin back home.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/flags-lowered-in-memory-of-marines-killed-in-afghanistan/2019/04/10/ebfb576c-5bb3-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html

2 may have been firemen.  I believe an American on contract was killed as well.

Can one imagine, the last paragraph above, your brother is in Afghanistan and there, he ends up escorting the coffin of his brother home.