Report: Combat Outpost Keating was ‘tactically indefensible’

Probe: Keating was ‘tactically indefensible’
By Richard Lardner - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jun 10, 2011 12:21:35 EDT
WASHINGTON — A military investigation says command failures left American soldiers in an indefensible position without adequate support when hundreds of insurgents attacked their remote outpost in northeastern Afghanistan with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and guns.

Eight U.S. troops were killed and 22 were wounded during the October 2009 attack on Combat Outpost Keating, one the deadliest battles during the nearly decade-long war. The investigation released Friday by U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., recommended giving four officers letters of admonition or reprimand for putting the 53 American troops in a vulnerable position at the outpost in mountainous Nuristan province near the Pakistan border.
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Keating was ‘tactically indefensible’