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VMA-211 mourns its Commander as it pushes forward to complete deployment in Afghanistan

September 27, 2012 David Cenciotti

Although it suffered the worst hit to enemy fire since WWII, enduring not only the loss of eight AV-8B+ Harrier jets in the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion’s airfiled, Marine Attack Squadron 211 remains fully […]

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Photo: This is what remains of a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jet after the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion

September 26, 2012 David Cenciotti

The following picture, sent by a reader of the blog, shows what remains of one of the six Harrier jets in the aftermath of the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion on Sept. 14, 2012. As […]

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Camp Bastion attack could be U.S. Marine Corps Harrier fleet’s ground zero

September 22, 2012 David Cenciotti

As already explained, the recent Taliban attack on Camp Bastion, that cost the U.S. the worst air loss to enemy fire in one day since the Vietnam War, almost wiped out the entire U.S. Marine […]

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Commanding Officer of the Harrier squadron decimated at Camp Bastion among the Marines killed in the Taliban attack

September 17, 2012 David Cenciotti

The Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 211 “Avengers” that was decimated on Friday Sept. 14, when a force of insurgents attacked Camp Bastion, in Helmand, has not only lost two Marines and eight of the ten AV-8B+ […]

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Marine Attack Squadron loses eight Harrier jets in worst U.S. air loss in one day since Vietnam War

September 16, 2012 David Cenciotti

Taliban’s attack on Camp Bastion killed two U.S. Marines and destroyed or severely damaged eight U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers and a United States Air Force C-130. On Friday Sept. 14, 2012, at around 10.15 […]

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