[Oak, PA.] President Donald J. Trump, speaking at a town hall meeting hosted by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, told the father and stepmother of a Cryptologist 1st Class Technician (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist), killed in Afghanistan while aboard a Chinook helicopter with the call sign Extortion 17, that he would investigate the tragedy in his first week back in the White House.
Noem told Trump that the cryptologist’s father, Charles, and stepmother, Mary Ann, were among the honored guests at the forum when the president called them up to the stage.
South Dakota’s Republican governor handed the microphone to Charles.
“I would ask Mr. President–my son was killed Aug. 6, 2011, with 29 other men,” he said. There were eight Afghan personnel on the helicopter in addition to the U.S. force.
“It was the single biggest loss of life in the Iraq and Afghan war,” he…
