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Inseparable in life and in death: The high school best friends who died together on Navy SEAL rescue mission when helicopter was shot down in 'lucky shot' in Afghanistan By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 6:00 AM on 9th August 2011
They were inseparable high school best friends, who stuck together through remarkable triumph - and the bitterest of tragedies. As the U.S. comes to grips with the deadliest loss of American lives since the war in Afghanistan began, it has emerged that among the 38 brave men who perished were two home town best friends. Chief Petty Officer Robert James Reeves and Lieutenant Commander Jonas Kelsall, from Shreveport, Louisiana, both mastered extreme trials to gain their places on Seal Team 6, the elite unit which killed Osama Bin Laden just three months ago. They had excelled at high school together before enlisting and being sent to Afghanistan, where the pair were assigned the same mission, placed in the same helicopter - and died together when the Chinook was shot down in an attack on Saturday morning. Military officials in Afghanistan believe that it was most likely a 'lucky shot' rather than marking a new insurgent ability to shoot down aircrafts.......................>>>>...................>>>>..............Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....s.html#ixzz1UWtx808V
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