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Apart. but even for the blue angels this was a departure. with more than 250 men, blue angels have broken the sound barrier for decades. >> these hand-picked navy pilot are members of the crack demonstration team called the blue angels. >> reporter: while they've served in support roles, for women, the limit was the sky, until this angel got her wings. you're basically breaking the gender barrier at 370 miles per hour. >> well, you know, i didn't come to the blue angels to break any barriers or shatter glass ceilings. i just wanted to fly fat albert. >> reporter: this hulking c-130 hercules. j...

A situation where there were requests for air support to u.s. forces and coalition forces. many of the requests were not fulfilled. so -- >> the civilians were in the way. >> supposedly. but there are civilians everywhere and there are ways to do this if you know exactly what you're doing, with intelligence and surveillance resources and other things -- >> that would require a lot more people on the ground there in this war where we're not sending ground troops. >> right. that's part of the paradox, requires people on the ground and in greater support roles and that's the big problem. you don'...

And it's that preservation of those gains that i think inspires the american servicemen and women to obey the call of their commander. second we've taken them out of harm's way. as the president mentioned, for the past 100 days because the combat role has ended, the exposure the number of casualties is really down. there isn't -- you know my most horrible reading of the day is my security reports where i see the casualties. but thank god they're no longer american or european casualties. john campbell is making sure that they remain in support roles. it has risks, but nowhere

Family. the king pointed to the sky, touched his heart an the crowd went wild. back in washington, the dalai lama was visiting and president obama described the islamic state as a brutal, vicious death cult. now no word yet on what jordan hit inside syria. we should learn more about the success of those strikes later on today. >> a lot of people eager to see what happened there, molly. do we know if the u.s. was involved in the strike yesterday? >> 21 u.s. aircraft were involved and all in support roles so refuelling and escorting. u.s. officials tell abc news the targets of yesterday's strike...

Mechanical malfunction as most crashes in afghanistan are, but there's always a chance it was attacked or shot down by the taliban, a claim they are making. but defense officials say right now there was no enemy fire in the area. now, this is the single largest loss of life for u.s. and international troops in afghanistan for months. there are still roughly 50,000 or so american service members in afghanistan, most are in support roles, training and mentoring the afghans with the afghans really doing the majority of the fighting. but so far this year 119 americans have died in afghanistan, and...