Veterans of Foreign Wars: Remembering a Deadly Day at Combat Outpost Keating
October 03, 2019
October 03, 2019
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct. 3 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars issued the following news release:
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- Oct. 3, 2009, would go down as the second costliest U.S. firefight of the Afghanistan War
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On Oct. 3, 2009, the odds were against U.S. troops at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan's Nuristan province, located just 10 miles from the Pakistan border. Contained between the Landay River and steep mountains, Keating was attacked from mult . . .
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- Oct. 3, 2009, would go down as the second costliest U.S. firefight of the Afghanistan War
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On Oct. 3, 2009, the odds were against U.S. troops at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan's Nuristan province, located just 10 miles from the Pakistan border. Contained between the Landay River and steep mountains, Keating was attacked from mult . . .