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KPIX 60 Minutes November 13, 2017

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The pentagon concluded the deaths were an avoidable accident, known by the contradictory phrase, friendly fire. It was the deadliest such incident involving u. S. Fatalities in 16 long years of ongoing war in afghanistan. It wasnt gunfire that killed the u. S. Soldiers. It was a pair of 500pound bombs dropped right on top of them by a u. S. Warplane. Youre about to hear what happened that day from three of the soldiers who were there, including the green beret commander. Its the first time they have spoken about the secret mission, and they dispute the official version of events and warn it is going to happen again. It started just after sundown on a sweltering night with a fierce firefight. Brandon branch bullets whizzing by, kicking up all around you. Henry Hank Montalbano at certain points it would die down, but it was unrelenting at other points. Derrick anderson it looked almost like a fireworks show, where they are shooting down on your positions. Our positions. Whitaker were you scared . Branch absolutely. I think you would have to be borderline insane to not have some kind of fear. All you can do at that point is return fire and hope the next one, you know, doesnt get you. Whitaker Brandon Branch was a skilled army combat paramedic, attached to the green berets, who had dreamed since childhood of being a soldier. Communications Sergeant Henry Hank Montalbano joined the green berets after graduating from williams college. And captain derrick anderson, the Green Beret Team commander, could be a poster boy for the army. Fluent in arabic, at 29 he was a bronzestar recipient in iraq and had led more than 80 combat patrols in afghanistan. This was supposed to be the teams final mission after a sixmonth deployment that started in january of 2014. Whitaker did you see much combat . Montalbano yes. It would be pretty typical during the course of an operation to take fire. Anderson we had had a long deployment. It was fairly kinetic. Whitaker a lot of action. Anderson yeah. Everyone was coming home safe. We had a few guys from our sister team that had gotten shot on a previous mission. Whitaker the tenman a team was part of the fifth special forces group from fort campbell, kentucky. The groups commander called them the most disciplined, welltrained, and effective unit in afghanistan. The green berets struck out from Forward Operating base apache, a dusty outpost in restive zabul province, an area dotted with beehives of taliban fighters, hidden in plain sight among the locals. Anderson we knew this area contained taliban and bad guys. So, we understood there was a clear possibility that we would be getting shot at, at some point. Whitaker captain anderson says the taliban stepped up its attacks when the u. S. Announced most of its troops would leave after the afghan elections in june. Anderson i think the taliban was trying to make a statement before we left. Whitaker what was the mission in the gaza valley that day . Anderson so, our job, in conjunction with our afghan partners, were to help the afghans in going clearing the gaza valley from any taliban that may be hiding and waiting for the elections to come forth and attack the polling sites. Whitaker to help understand what happened that night three years ago, using satellite photographs of afghanistans gaza valley, 60 minutes commissioned a scale model of the exact location where the friendly fire took place, and brought these three soldiers who fought there to see it. Anderson its just its surreal to see the whole landscape again, and i mean, it definitely it definitely brings up memories of that day. Whitaker whats the terrain like . Branch its steep and and slippery. Whitaker hours before dawn, on june 9, 2014, giant chinook helicopters, like these, dropped captain anderson and his 95man task force of u. S. And Afghan Soldiers into the gaza valley to chase away the taliban fighters. Temperatures soared over 100 degrees as the u. S. Troops shadowed their afghan allies from rocky ridges. At the same time, radio intercepts showed the taliban were also shadowing them. At dusk, the soldiers climbed down to take up positions near three helicopter landing zones. Whitaker so the flag here the red flag what does that represent . Anderson so that represents where we ended up at the end of the day, getting ready for pick up from the helicopters. Whitaker attached to andersons Green Beret Team was an air force controller, whose identity is classified. He was assigned to the mission just 72 hours earlier, and his job was critical to guide air force planes on bombing or strafing runs against enemy positions. Its a battlefield tactic called closeair support. What the green berets didnt know was that their new air controller had been demoted and kicked out of an air force special Operations Unit for poor performance. Whitaker did you know this guy at all . Did you know anything about him . Anderson at the time we didnt know anything. We he showed up a couple days before the mission, so he was getting caught up on what everything our previous air controller had planned out. Whitaker half a mile away from Andersons Group was army medic Brandon Branch and two green beret weapons sergeants Jason Mcdonald, at 28, a veteran army ranger, and 24yearold Scott Studenmund, the grandson of a u. S. Senator who continued a Family Tradition of service by becoming a green beret. Branch once we got down in this area, there was like a small ditch that actually kind of ran down through here. Whitaker just before 8 00 in the evening, suddenly taliban fighters began shooting down into the ditch where Brandon Branch was with sergeants studenmund and mcdonald. Branch it broke loose at that point. Whitaker captain anderson watched as the firefight erupted a half mile away. Anderson from our location here, we could see the fire coming right onto them. They were just in such a vulnerable location down there, being on low ground, in a ditch. The advantage was from the taliban. Montalbano you could see the tracer rounds. Whitaker where did you think the shots were coming from . Branch at first, just somewhere in this general direction in that vicinity. Whitaker you couldnt see anybody . Branch we couldnt see anybody at the time. It was just somebody shooting. Whitaker can you the bullets are hitting all around you. You can hear them going by . Branch right. Yes, sir. Whitaker were you returning fire . Branch absolutely. Absolutely. Whitaker under heavy fire, green beret Scott Studenmund scaled the hill with three other u. S. Soldiers and an afghan sergeant to take up a more defendable position. They carried a machine gun, a grenade launcher, and rifles to fight off the taliban. Before scrambling up the hill to join the other soldiers, Sergeant Jason mcdonald sounded an urgent alarm over the radio troops in contact. Anderson he started asking for immediate support from aircraft. Whitaker it got that bad that quickly . Anderson absolutely, sir. Jason got on the radio and said, get me the aircraft now. Whitaker have you heard him say that before . Anderson no, at no at no point during the deployment had we ever really heard anyone with the urgency in in their voice and, or necessity. Branch honestly, whats going through my head is that were going to die. Whitaker the plane, sent to the aid of the special forces that night, was a b1 like this a highflying Strategic Bomber not the type of aircraft typically used for closeair support missions in afghanistan. That night, the b1 had a belly full of bombs, and a cylindrical tube called a sniper pod slung beneath its fuselage. A sniper pod is a Precision Targeting system bristling with cameras and sensors that streams images like these to the bombers fourman crew. As darkness fell over the moonlit valley, the green berets switched on infrared strobes attached to their helmets and pulled night vision devices over their eyes, which allow u. S. Soldiers and air crews to identify friendfromfoe in the chaos of the battlefield. Whitaker you can see the strobe lights . Anderson yeah. Branch right. Whitaker and everybodys got one . Anderson correct. Whitaker so, if youre looking at all of your guys out there, youre seeing lights all over the place . Anderson yeah, i mean, i have pilot buddies and i have friends that have said it can often times look like like a Christmas Tree in the valley. Whitaker what about the b1 bomber . Does does it see the strobe lights . Anderson it cannot. Whitaker it cannot . Anderson we thought it could. Whitaker the classified official investigation obtained by 60 minutes later concluded that everyone the soldiers, the bomber crew, the air force controller all thought the b1 targeting system was capable of detecting infrared strobes. They were all wrong. So it was your belief that this b1 bomber could see your strobe lights going off . Anderson correct. Yes, and, you know, throughout any operation, weve always had the general assumption that these aircraft can. Whitaker as this animation shows, the b1 targeting system could see gunfire coming from sergeants mcdonald and studenmund, who were shooting at the taliban from the hillside above medic branch. But, because the planes crew couldnt see the green berets strobes, they mistook their muzzle flashes for the taliban. And that was just one of a cascade of critical errors, according to the investigation of the incident. The report charges that, in the heat of battle, captain anderson lost track of the soldiers who had climbed the hill to fight the taliban. The air force controller with anderson, whose job it was to pinpoint enemy targets, admitted he made a mistake and sent conflicting positions for u. S. And enemy fighters to the bomber. The b1 aborted its bomb run on three passes as technical glitches and the mountainous terrain garbled radio transmission. Whitaker how long did that take . Anderson it ended up taking a total of 21 minutes. Whitaker and all of this time youre you are under fire . Branch right. Whitaker the report also revealed that as the bomber circled 12,000 feet above them, instead of targeting the taliban, the air force controller made a fatal mistake. He gave the b1 crew the location of the u. S. Soldiers as the target, and, improperly directed the aircraft over a friendly position. No one in the bomber challenged the air controllers conflicting positions for u. S. And enemy fighters that should have been a red flag. The air force controller with the green berets radioed the bomber be advised, friendlies are the only ones marked by i. R. Strobes. So, anybody else is enemy target. Six minutes later he asked, any i. R. Strobes in your sensor at this time . The bomber crew responded, negative i. R. Strobes. The b1 crew did have handheld night vision goggles, but they were out of range of the strobes. Finally, the b1 released two 500pound bombs, directly on the six soldiers at the top of the hill. Branch and, as soon as it happened, it was all of a sudden this shocked moment of oh my god they just hit our hill. Anderson and, my gut dropped. I just felt something sink to the bottom of my stomach, and i was like, no, this no. This isnt happening. Branch i grabbed my aid bag and i took off up the hill to try to go see if anybody had survived it, and if, you know, if there was anybody that needed help. And i heard, you got to get over here. I found scott. Whitaker what was his condition . Branch he was in in bad shape. He he was talking to us at first asking what just happened. And, while we began working on him, we just told him, i dont i dont know what happened. I dont know what happened, but something messed up. I was applying tourniquets and trying to stop what was happening trying to stop the bleeding. There was really nothing else that that i could do. Whitaker i understand you said a prayer . Branch i just asked that god be with him and with his family. Whitaker Staff Sergeant Scott Studenmund died on that hilltop. Also killed staff Sergeant Jason mcdonald, the father of two girls; 19yearold private first class aaron toppen; specialist justin helton, 25; Corporal Justin clouse, 22; and 31yearold afghan sergeant gulbuddin sakhi. Over the next days, Memorial Services were held for the Fallen Soldiers at Forward Operating base apache, and at an air field in kandahar, afghanistan. Later, Scott Studenmund and Jason Mcdonald were laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National cemetery. The official report of the accident pinned much of the blame on the green beret captain in our story. When we come back, what our investigation found about the deadliest friendly fire incident for u. S. Soldiers in 16 years of war in afghanistan. Money managers are pretty much the same. All but while some push High Commission investment products, Fisher Investments avoids them. Some advisers have hidden and layered fees. Fisher investments never does. And while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, Fisher Investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other money managers. Fisher investments. Clearly better money management. Shes had a tiny cough. See you at 5 seriously . Protection. 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