William Urban said they knew of no civilian casualties. The strike killed one individual, and spokesman Navy Capt. Meanwhile, US Central Command confirmed late on Friday that a drone strike had eliminated the suspected architect of the airport attack, an ISIS-K member in Nangahar province. 'It was just so chaotic and not planned out,' the grieving father said of the evacuation, which funneled thousands of Afghans seeking to leave the country to screening checkpoints manned by US troops. 'From what I saw of the airport that they were in it looked like a turkey shoot.' But even I could see that that was a dangerous situation,' he said.

Nikoui's father Steve told Fox News on Friday night that he was angry at the conditions the Marines were working in, calling the situation at Hamid Karzai International Airport a 'turkey shoot'. 'I am scared s**tless to see what's going to happen next, and what's going to come our way.' 'I've lost my son, but there are still Marines over there,' he said. McCollum's father told the Daily Beast that he does not blame any specific administration for the situation in Afghanistan, but does blame President Joe Biden for the botched handling of the withdrawal. Other photos show Gee holding an Afghan baby.Īs the families and friends of the troops slain in Thursday's bombing learn of their loved ones' fates, many are speaking out in frustration over the perceived planning and leadership failures leading up to their deaths. Just days before she was slain at an overcrowded airport checkpoint, Marine Sergeant Gee was photographed escorting a line of evacuees as they filed into the cargo hold of a C-17 Globemaster to escape Afghanistan.

Killed were Navy corpsman Max Soviak, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, and Marines Hunter Lopez, Rylee McCollum, David Lee Espinoza, Kareem Nikoui, Jared Schmitz, Daegan Page, Taylor Hoover, Humberto Sanchez, Johanny Rosario, Dylan Merola and Nicole Gee. All 13 US troops slain by an ISIS-K suicide bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday have been identified, and haunting final images of one female Marine show her escorting evacuees days before her death.

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