Fact check: Photos show service members killed in plane crash, not Kabul attack. The two hostile deaths in February marked the last combat-related deaths in Afghanistan until the recent attack near Kabul's international airport. The social media post claims there were no military deaths in "the past 18 months," which would date to Feb.
There were four non-hostile deaths recorded in Afghanistan between Feb. The following service members' deaths were recorded during as "non-hostile" deaths, according to a detailed Defense Casualty Analysis System report. Pahon declined to elaborate on the nature of the non-combat incident deaths aside from saying they were not caused by enemy fire. But, for instance, the deaths of two airmen recorded on the Pentagon's casualty tracking system on Jan.
USA TODAY found no additional reports of the deaths listed above that clarified why they were considered "non-hostile" or "non-combat-related incident. While there weren't any hostile deaths dating back to February , there were four non-hostile deaths recorded in Afghanistan between Feb. Thank you for supporting our journalism. As at 23 July , a total of British forces personnel or MOD civilians have died while serving in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October The balance of these figures may change as inquests are concluded.
Following a helicopter crash on 11 October , 2 further UK personnel have died while serving in Afghanistan, taking the total number of military deaths to Two personnel from and 33 Squadrons, Royal Air Force. Sapper Adam Moralee from 32 Engineer Regiment died on 5 March as a result of non-battle-related injuries sustained in Camp Bastion. Warrant Officer Class 2 Ian Fisher from 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment was killed after his vehicle was subjected to a vehicle-borne suicide attack in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on 5 November Guardsman Karl Whittle from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards died in Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on Friday, 7 September from gunshot wounds he sustained when his checkpoint was attacked by insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on 14 August Guardsman Jamie Shadrake of the Reconnaissance Platoon, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, died of gunshot wounds when his checkpoint was attacked by insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Friday, 17 August Corporal Alex Guy, of the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, was fatally wounded when leading his section forward to assist a group of Afghan soldiers who were pinned down following an insurgent ambush on Friday, 15 June Captain Stephen James Healey, from 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh, was killed when the vehicle he was travelling in was caught in the blast from an improvised explosive device while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Saturday, 26 May Guardsman Michael Roland, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was fatally wounded during an exchange of small arms fire whilst deployed with his company on a three-day operation to disrupt insurgent activity in a contested area in the north of Nahr-e Saraj district on Friday, 27 April He had been seriously wounded in a blast from an improvised explosive device on Wednesday, 11 April Captain Rupert William Michael Bowers, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, was leading a patrol to clear a position of the threat of insurgents in the Mirmandab region of Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, on Wednesday, 21 March , when he was killed in the blast from an improvised explosive device.
Senior Aircraftman Ryan Tomlin, from 2 Squadron RAF Regiment, was taking part in a partnered patrol to reassure and interact with the local population in the Nad 'Ali district of central Helmand province when he was fatally wounded by small arms fire during an insurgent attack on Monday, 13 February Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung from the Royal Gurkha Rifles, serving with 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, was killed on Friday, 27 January when his foot patrol to disrupt insurgent activity came under small arms fire in the Khar Nikah region of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province.
Squadron Leader Anthony Downing of the Royal Air Force died of his wounds on Friday, 23 December after the vehicle in which he was travelling was caught in an explosion south of Kabul, in Afghanistan on Thursday, 22 December Captain Tom Jennings of the Royal Marines died after the vehicle in which he was travelling was caught in an explosion south of Kabul, in Afghanistan on Thursday, 22 December Lieutenant David Boyce and Lance Corporal Richard Scanlon, from 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, were killed when their armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device while on patrol in the Yakchal region of the Nahr-e Saraj district of central Helmand on Thursday, 17 November Private Matthew Haseldin, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, was killed by a gunshot wound when his patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, came under attack on Thursday, 3 November Rifleman Vijay Rai, 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, was killed by a gunshot wound when the checkpoint that he and his team were protecting in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, came under insurgent small arms fire on Saturday, 15 October Lance Corporal Kyle Cleet Marshall, from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, was killed when an IED exploded while he was deployed on an operation to reassure and provide security for the population in an area in the south of the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province on Monday, 14 February The soldiers were deployed on an operation to reassure the local population and provide security in the Nad 'Ali District of Helmand province.
Warrant Officer Class 2 Company Sergeant Major Colin Beckett of 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment was killed in Afghanistan on the morning of Saturday 5 February when he was fatally wounded by an improvised explosive device which detonated as he was moving into position to cover his fellow patrol members.
Private John Howard, from 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday 5 December when he was fatally wounded during an action against insurgents operating in Lashkar Gah. Rifleman Suraj Gurung from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles was killed during a follow-up foot patrol after an attack on his patrol base on Saturday 2 October Corporal Matthew Thomas from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was killed when the vehicle he was driving in was struck by an improvised explosive device in the Garmsir district of Helmand province on Saturday 25 September He was mortally wounded and died at Camp Bastion Role Three hospital.
Bombardier Stephen Gilbert from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery died in hospital in Birmingham on Saturday, 26 June from wounds sustained in Afghanistan as the result of an explosion on the afternoon of Thursday, 10 June Sergeant Steven William Darbyshire, 40 Commando Royal Marines, serving as part of Combined Force Sangin, was killed by small arms fire during a firefight with insurgent forces in the Sangin district of Helmand province on Wednesday, 23 June Lance Corporal Barry Buxton died on Monday, 3 May , after sustaining injuries in an accident alongside the Nahr-e Bughra canal as a result of the vehicle he was commanding rolling into the canal when the road collapsed.
Fusilier Jonathan Burgess from1st Battalion The Royal Welsh was killed as a result of gunshot wounds following a small arms engagement in the Nad 'Ali area of Helmand province on Wednesday, 7 April Guardsman Michael Sweeney from 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards was killed as a result of an explosion that happened in the Babaji district of central Helmand province on Thursday, 1 April Rifleman Daniel Holkham from 3rd Battalion The Rifles was killed as a result of an explosion which occurred in an area east of Sangin district centre in Helmand province during the afternoon of Saturday, 27 March Serjeant Steven Campbell, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, 22 March as a result of an improvised explosive device which detonated while he was patrolling around 3km south of Sangin district centre.
Rifleman Liam Maughan of 3rd Battalion The Rifles died from wounds received as a result of small arms fire near Sangin, in Helmand province, during the morning of Saturday, 6 March Rifleman Jonathon Allott of 3rd Battalion The Rifles died from wounds received as a result of an explosion which occurred near Sangin, in Helmand province, during the morning of Friday, 5 March Sergeant Paul Fox from 28 Engineer Regiment, attached to the Brigade Reconnaissance Force, was killed by an improvised explosive device while on a foot patrol in southern Nad 'Ali, Helmand province, on Friday, 26 February Lance Sergeant Dave Greenhalgh, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was killed when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, near Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, on Saturday, 13 February Kingsman Sean Dawson from 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was killed as a result of small arms fire sustained during a contact with enemy insurgents in the Musa Qal'ah district of Helmand province on Sunday, 14 February Sapper David Watson from 33 Engineer Regiment Explosive Ordnance Disposal died of wounds sustained in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device on Thursday, 31 December in the vicinity of Patrol Base Blenheim in the Sangin region of Helmand province.
Rifleman Aidan Howell of 3rd Battalion The Rifles was killed as a result of an explosion that happened near Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge in the Kajaki area of Helmand province during the afternoon of 28 December This article is more than 11 years old. Two weeks after being deployed Rifleman Andrew Fentiman was shot dead while on foot patrol in Helmand province. Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, a Territorial Army recruit killed while he was serving in Afghanistan, was a sales manager for a software firm based in Cambridgeshire.
I'm currently at my camp after a 24 hour flight from Edinburgh. I'm now waiting to go to my FOB forward operating base which should be in the next four days. We have been doing the training package which consists of IED clearance drills, zeroing, defensive shoots, patrolling skills, use of night vision goggles and some mandatory briefs, we need to complete this before we can move outside the wire.
We are quite fortunate as the day before we were due to be on the ranges, one person was killed and two others injured as someone stepped on an IED which didn't make for a pleasant arrival for us. Apart from that incident it's reasonable calm; helicopters fly over head throughout the days and nights as well as MRLS launchers firing away.
I have to admit, it makes this whole experience feel slightly surreal. We are still waiting on these new body amour and helmets that were promised to us. There is the odd brand I recognise but we will only have access to the local ones when we are in the FOB.
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