Killed In Action (clockwise from top left): Staff Sergeant Bryan Black, 35 Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Johnson, 39 Sergeant La David Johnson, 25 and Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright, 29Ī firefight ensues. The driver of the Landcruiser jumps out and helps Johnson drag the downed soldier to cover.

He appears dead. The soldier wearing the helmet cam, who appears to be La David Johnson, checks the body. One of the US soldiers walking by the Landcrusier falls to the ground in the chaos.

The driver of the Landcruiser steers it from a prone position, with his legs sticking out the passenger side door, as two other soldiers move along side firing at the enemy. Soldiers walk next to each vehicle, laying down suppressive fire as the vehicles roll over the desert scrub. After a cut, it appears that the Nigerien support personnel and tactical vehicle are gone, and three US soldiers are making a final stand by the Landcruiser. Next, gruesome still photos of the bodies of the American soldiers flash across the screen. The helmet cam portion of the video begins with the Americans pinned down under gunfire next to a tactical truck and a Toyota Landcruiser. Together with a few Nigerien allies, the US soldiers move with each vehicle toward colored smoke grenades that have been deployed for cover and to alert air support. It would be two hours later until French jets arrived to provide air support. The 9 minute, 15 second video appears to be shot from multiple helmet cameras on the US soldiers who died on October 4 in Tongo Tongo, Niger in an ambush by 50 ISIS militants. 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, where they had been hunting for a senior Islamic State member.Īt the start of the video, a group that appear to be ISIS militants are seen riding in light pickup trucks before the ambush. An estimated 50 militants armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades participated in the ambush, which left 21 of their number dead. The video shows heartbreaking details about the courageous last moments of the four soldiers, although it is edited with multiple cuts that make the full context of the firefight unclear. It was in this attack that Sergeant La David Johnson, 25 Staff Sergeant Bryan Black, 35 Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Johnson, 39 and Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright were killed. The distressing video looks like something from a war movie but it's real. Special Forces soldiers serving in Niger were ambushed by extremists and 4 US soldiers were killed. ISIS has released a gory video showing the horrific moment U.S.

JET Ambushed by J.E. Vassar