He then joined the active Army in 2008 and was assigned to the 181st Chemical Company, 2nd Chemical Battalion, at Fort Hood, Texas, Dickson said. He first joined the Army Reserves in 2007 and was assigned to the 300th Chemical Company in Morgantown, West Virginia, after Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training as a chemical operations specialist at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, according to Dickson.
Johnson, 41, was a native of New Bern, North Carolina. "His actions were key in saving the lives of multiple other soldiers." 1st Class Johnson's courage and dedication to his team were unmatched, engaging a numerically superior hostile force, disrupting the enemy's freedom of maneuver and killing several enemy fighters before succumbing to his wounds," according to the account. Rick Dickson, spokesman for the 3rd Special Forces Group. Johnson was posthumously promoted to sergeant first class, according to Capt. 10 award ceremony in Greenville, Tennessee. Johnson - a Special Forces detachment chemical reconnaissance sergeant - "maneuvered multiple times across open terrain through intense and accurate fire from an overwhelming hostile force to protect his team," according to an account that was read at his Aug. The battle became so intense that the patrol had to pull back to a defensive position.ĭuring the battle, then-Staff Sgt. New Niger Ambush Video: US Survivors Left Messages for Loved Ones.Army Rescinds Reprimand for Niger Ambush That Left Four Dead, Report Says.Families of Soldiers Killed in Niger Get Ambush Investigation Findings.Shanahan Launches New Investigation into Deadly 2017 Niger Ambush.Two Commanders Reportedly Promoted Even Though 4 Soldiers Died on Their Watch.Pentagon Ends Reviews of Niger Ambush that Killed 4 Soldiers.Family Members Reject Niger Ambush Final Report as Top Cover for Senior Officers.
US troops frequently wear cameras while out on missions, sometimes even using their own GoPro-style devices. Questions remain about what intelligence failures may have occurred that allowed such a large attack, but the Pentagon has remained tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding the ambush as well as the nature of the mission while it conducts a probe. The body of one US soldier, Sergeant La David Johnson, was not recovered until the following day. They were attacked by a group of some 50 fighters affiliated with IS and equipped with small arms, grenades and trucks mounted with guns.įour American soldiers were killed along with at least five Nigerien troops. The ambush occurred as a unit of 12 American special forces soldiers and 30 Nigerien troops returned from the village near the border with Mali. “We are reviewing the post and determining the veracity of the tweet and the assertions that there is an associated video,” AFRICOM said in a statement.
The US military’s Africa command said it was aware of the Twitter postings purporting to show the October 4 ambush in Tongo Tongo, Niger. One tweet, now deleted, claimed there was an associated video.
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