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DEA Remembers Its Fallen Heroes
Memorial Service in Kabul Honors American Servicemen, DEA Agents

3 DEA Special Agents, members of the Kabul Country Office, died on October 26, 2009 when the U.S. military helicopter they were on crashed while returning from a joint counter narcotics mission in Western Afghanistan. (Photo by Daniel Wilkinson)

OCT 27 -- KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – A memorial service was held today in Kabul, Afghanistan in remembrance of those DEA Special Agents and United States servicemen who were killed this week while completing a joint counternarcotics mission.  Those who conducted the memorial service include DEA Assistant Regional Director Jay Fitzpatrick, and Deputy Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone.