We now know the names of the Drug Enforcement Administration special agents who lost their lives in the helicopter crash Afghanistan on Monday. Special Agent Forrest Leamon, 37 of Woodbridge, Va, Chad L. Michael, 30, of Quantico, Va. and Michael E. Weston, 37, of Washington, D.C. were killed when the chopper they were flying aboard western Afghanistan crashed in killing them and 8 members of the military. DEA says special Agents Leamon and Michael were members of DEA’s FAST (Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams); and Special Agent Weston was assigned to DEA’s Kabul Country Office.

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