This last weekend I started getting emails on Saturday morning telling me about a major battle going on in eastern Afghanistan that dealt with several outposts and multiple US casualties. However it was asked of me to stay quiet and not blog about it at that point.

Of course I did stay quiet because I was asked and because the first reports from the battlefield are always wrong. And in this instance they were. The initial reports I got were a little off, to include the exact province, unit involved and some other details.

As we know now thanks to the MSM releasing the story, the battle has happened. It was a terrible battle with 8 US and 6 Afghan Forces killed, over 24 wounded and over 300 enemy fighters attacking two combat outposts.

The story below is from a ABC News reporter that was embedded with the unit.

When the chopper lifted off moments later with three wounded soldiers, it left behind others who were wounded but refused to be MEDEVACED out of the combat zone so they could return to fight with their buddies.

Fighting raged at two remote U.S. outposts near the Pakistan border this weekend, that left eight U.S. soldiers dead and 24 wounded. The battle was fought from Friday night through Sunday as hundreds of Taliban insurgents and their allies tried to overrun the Americans.

abcnews.go.com/International/wounded-us-soldiers-refused-leave-taliban-fight/story?id=8754347