View Navy Seals Killed In Afghanistan UK. Chopper crash, more than 30 dead. The downing claimed 15 gold squadron members and two bomb specialists.
In that incident, 16 navy seals and army special operations troops were killed when their craft was shot down while on a mission to rescue four seals with the casualties from the helicopter crash, the deaths bring to 365 the number of coalition troops killed this year in afghanistan and 42 this month.
Murphy was posthumously awarded the medal of honor monday, becoming the first u.s. The department of defense released the names of the personnel who were killed in that incident (not all of whom were navy seals): Special operations forces killed, most of them navy seals, according to cbs news correspondent david martin in washington. Seal lance vaccarro died due to same reason that the u.s.