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Show 6 HILLTOP TIMES TIME S April 26, 2012 YEAR From page 1 world were especially tough. The 438th Air Expeditionary Force continued its day-today advisory training of the Afghan air units, just as before, but with heightened security in the aftermath of the Kabul shootings. Chief Master Sgt. Max Grindstaff, 75th Air Base Wing and Ogden Air Logistics Center command chief, was the command chief at the time for the 483th Air Expeditionary Wing and recalls the tragedy vividly. He hopes all Airmen and their families take some time to remember their fallen comrades. On that day an Afghan colonel, Col. Ahmed Ghul, started shooting U.S. personnel at the airport building. The shootings appeared to be premeditated. The colonel was experiencing financial difficulties and reports vary on other possible contributing factors as to his actions that day. Following the initial shots in the crowded room, Capt. Nathan Nylander and another Airman in an adjacent room returned fire at Col. Ahmed Ghul and the Afghan returned fire wounding Nylander who died as a result. The shooter then returned his focus to the room where he had wounded the eight Americans. Ghul then ran upstairs and died there in a firefight from injuries which were reported as self-inflicted, or as possibly a combination of the firefight and his selfinflicted wounds. " Maj. Philip Ambard Maj. Raymond Estelle II Maj. David Brodeur Maj. Jeffrey Ausborn Capt. Nathan Nylander Master Sgt. Tara Brown Maj. Charles Ransom Lt. Col. Frank Bryant Jr. Chief Master Sgt. Max Grindstaff, 75th Air Base Wing and Ogden Air Logistics Center command chief, was the command chief at the time for the 483th Air Expeditionary Wing and recalls the tragedy vividly. He hopes all Airmen and their families take some time to remember their fallen comrades. Lt. Col. (Ret.) James McLaughlin For nine U.S. famideur, 34, of Auburn, Eustis, Va. deployments. • Ret. U.S. Army Lt. For more informalies, their lives had Mass. 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