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Medal of Honor After Day of Bad Luck in Afghan WarBy James Gordon Meek
We've covered this tragic tale, which unfolded on a windswept Afghan peak along the Pakistan border, since it happened on June 28, 2005, including exclusives I filed from Afghanistan and a recent series on Murphy's life. His SEAL team was on a surveillance mission to find a top Pashtun tribal militia leader when they were attacked by a much larger force. Toward the end of an intense firefight, the badly wounded lieutenant was finally able to reach a nearby U.S. forward operating base by cell phone to call for help. But the rescuers in a quick reaction force of SEALs and Army "Night Stalkers" was shot down. A total of 19 Americans perished within a few horrific hours. Since the tragedy that ultimately led to Lt. Murphy's Medal of Honor presentation this week, the narrative of the SEALs' once classified mission has gradually been revealed and, to some degree, altered over time. Where it was initially described as a battle with the Taliban, today the Pashtun tribal fighters that savagely attacked the SEAL insertion team and then shot down their rescuers' chopper is now described by the military simply as a fight with "anti-coalition militia." Recently, there have been some fresh revelations about the most secret aspects of the war against Al Qaeda and Murphy's ill-fated Operation Red Wing in particular, as well as some new conclusions about the incident spelled out on a recently-unveiled Navy website devoted to Murphy's last stand. The new information offers an interesting insight into Special Operations missions and how one turned into tragedy when bad luck piled on top of more bad luck. Read my full account of Operation Red Wing, including new information on the 2005 incident, by clicking over to the Daily News' Mouth of the Potomac Blog.
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