One officer in Afghanistan who was familiar with the attack on COP Keating said he had mixed feelings about the criticism leveled against the camp's commanders. "Reviewing and examining and improving ...

The American Combat Outpost, Keating, better known as COP Keating, was a US military outpost in the Nurestan Province in Afghanistan in the late 2000s. Located near the town of Kamdesh, COP Keating ...

COP Keating, in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province, was established in 2006 as a base for a provincial reconstruction team. It was surrounded by high ground, ...

The investigation into the Oct. 3, 2009 insurgent attack onCombat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan,that left eight U.S.soldiers killed and 22 wounded, is complete. ISAF public affairs ...

This wasn’t the case at COP Keating in October 2009, when 300 Taliban fighters breached a similarly tiny and isolated outpost, also in eastern Afghanistan near Kamdesh. In that earlier battle ...

That was the question that echoed when I visited COP Keating in 2009. ... At the time, the war in Afghanistan was reaching a climax as the Obama administration’s surge began to get underway.

Remember the fallen. Eight soldiers were killed in the Oct. 3, 2009, attack on Combat Outpost Keating in northeastern Afghanistan. They were: Staff Sgt. Vernon W ...

Carter will receive the nation's highest award for valor Aug. 26, 2013, for his defense of Combat Outpost Keating, in a remote mountain valley of Nuristan province in western Afghanistan.

That was the question that echoed when I visited COP Keating in 2009. ... At the time, the war in Afghanistan was reaching a climax as the Obama administration’s surge began to get underway.