Two U.S. service members were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the military said
The service members were not immediately identified. Department of Defense policy is to withhold the names of those killed for 24 hours after notification of next of kin is complete.
There are around 13,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan supporting missions to train, advise and assist Afghan forces under a NATO mission known as resolute support, and to conduct counterterrorism operations. On Oct. 21, during a visit to Kabul, U.S. Gen. Austin"Scott" Miller, commander of the NATO Resolute Support Mission and U.S. Forces−Afghanistan, said that in the last year, the U.S. had reduced the troops in the country by around 2,000"as part of our optimization," according to
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