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Prop up support for the afghan government there. that experience was just absolutely devastating for the british army. by june of 2010, the british had lost around 300 soldiers, total, and all of afghanistan. but nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british older skilled in the entire country in the entire war, were killed in sangin, and just that one single town in afghanistan. the guardian newspaper in the uk called sangin, the puppy town that became a death town for the british army. it wasn t something that was specific to the british. i one point sangin was responsible for 10% of the daily casualties of the entire nato mission, of all the nato countries fighting in afghanistan, not one little town. amid all that bloodshed, amid the disproportionate share of the bloodshed in the war being centered in that one town, by ....
September of 2010, the british foreign minister announced that sangin was going to go through a serious change, it was no longer going to be britain s problem, primarily. he announced that henceforth, all responsibility for sangin would be taken over by the american military. by a group of u.s. marines. one of those marines, said to perhaps the most dangerous place in afghanistan s, at the most dangerous times of the war, one of the marines was this man s major thomas schueman. you see him there on the left. over the course of his long service in afghanistan, he served seven astonishingly difficult and intense months in sangin. he says during his seven months there, 25 marines he served with died there, in that one town, more than 200 others were wounded. he recounted one particularly brutal day in sangin to the chicago sometimes. it was the day in which he ....
Nearly a third of that number, nearly a third of all the british soldiers killed in the entire country, in the entire war, were killed in sangin in just that one single town in afghanistan. the guardian newspaper in the uk called sangin the poppy town that became a death trap for the british army. and it wasn t something that was specific to the british. at one point sangin was responsible for more than 10% of the daily casualties of the entire nato mission, of all the nato countries fighting in afghanistan, that one little town. and amid all that bloodshed, amid that hugely disproportionate share of the bloodshed in the war be centered in that one town, by september of 2010 the british foreign minister announced that sangin was going to go through a serious change. it was no longer going to be britain s problem primarily. he announced henceforth all responsibility for sangin would ....
Zak that caught major shoe men s attention, here s how he described the first time that he met zak in sangin. quote major shaman concedes he was in a transactional mood on the day he met zak, yet already work for so many different interpreters, but zak was different, he was physically fit, for one, his english was excellent. most of all, he was willing to go to sangin, which many interpreters avoided given the dangers trying. he said quote, i recognize he was a special guy, and i was very lucky to have him. marines and other platoons begin to eye this new addition to the team with envy, but major schueman had no intention of sharing him. the patrols were long and terrifying as the marines made their way through mind territory, towards villages, often being ambushed. a campaign that killed and severely injured scores of troops. i won t point zak over her to taliban fighters from a distance talking on the radios as they organize an attack on ....
This is one of those stories. watch this. stick with me till the end. okay? here we go. september of 2010, the warren afghanistan was closing out its ninth year. and of course for a long time it hadn t been just american troops fighting the war in afghanistan. a lot of our allies joined in the war effort to. for years, for example, the british army had been engaged here, in the town of sank in, in helmand province and that area, helmand province, but that area near sangin was, a cure center for the opium trade. it was also just absolutely swarming with taliban fighters. so on the earlier side of the war, first decade of the war, the british were the ploy there to try to beat back the taliban, ....