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ballier and shot dead by an afghan police officer known as an insider attack, weeks away from coming home. cnn s barbara starr looks back at his incredible service to this country. command agent major bolyard s remanes back home with his family. the 42-year-old west virginia soldier the sixth service member killed this year in america s longest war. a soldier devoted to serving. it s not a branch. it is a state of mind. reporter: he was shot monday by an afghan policeman, the latest case of local security forces turning their guns on american troops. when the news came, family and friends devastated. it felt like a heart attack. reporter: a veteran of more than half a dozen deployments, highly decorated, he was the senior enlisted soldier in a specialized unit training and
mr. president, tur nation s security is no place to play politics. among the the headlines today is bashar al-assad going to moscow to thank vladimir putin for saving his regime. 22 afghan policeman were murdered by the taliban, and f 18 apparently crashed in england. meanwhile, there are thousands of men and women strapping on their body armor getting ready to go on patrol, fly their aircraft to protect the united states. it would be absolutely wrong for us to play political games with them and with the support that they depend upon. as has been mentioned included in this bill is a reform for
and the motives have varied from either, as you mentioned, an insurgent planted into the security forces or someone who has had other mental or emotional issues that has forced them to act this way. obviously the concern is going to be that these americans were specifically targeted, noncombatants. any indication that they were picked on purpose? i know you re saying it s early in the investigation but in any of the other incidents that we ve had that are like these, were noncombatants tar ge geted? they ve obviously been targeted today. for reasons we re not quite clear of at the moment. we had a shooting of a german photographer last month from an afghan policeman. he told colleagues he was upset about a u.s. air strike that happened in or around his village some months earlier. jeremy, thank you very much. i m asking because we ve been
jon: janice dean, we ll check in with you. thanks. we ll turnover seas now. a recent string of attacks carried out by afghan police and military members against our forces are raising new questions about our strategy in the country. afghan security forces attacked troops training them 29 times so far this year. that is more than double the total number of attacks from last year of the same type. in the latest attack, here is what we know. a newly recruited policeman, afghan policeman, turns on his american trainers who had just given him a new gun in a ceremony, moments before the attack. two u.s. servicemen were killed before the gunman was fatally shot. general jack keane, retired four-star general, former vice chief of staff of the army and a fox news military analyst. he spent quite a bit of time over in afghanistan. general keane, we didn t really hear about the attacks a couple years ago. now they re increasing. why? well, the taliban have always had a strategy to erode the pub