Indirect Fire Damages Gen. Dempsey’s Plane

by Gary Kopycinski on August 21, 2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan–(ENEWSPF)–Aug. 21, 2012 — International Security Assistance Force can confirm that shrapnel from an indirect fire round at Bagram Airfield damaged the military aircraft that brought Gen. Martin E. Dempsey to Afghanistan. The round was one of two that impacted Bagram last night. An ISAF helicopter was also damaged.