Notable Fatalities
The first Canadian casualties came on 18 April 2002, in what is known as the Tarnak Farm incident. Four soldiers (Privates Richard Green and Nathan Smith, Corporal Ainsworth Dyer and Sergeant Marc Léger) were killed and eight others wounded when an American F-16 fighter jet dropped a laser-guided 225-kg bomb on the Canadians who were on an exercise at Tarnak Farm, near Kandahar.
On 17 May 2006, 26 year old Captain Nichola Goddard from the 1 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery was killed during operations against insurgents. She was the first Canadian female soldier to die in combat. On 4 September the same year, Olympic athlete Private Mark Anthony Graham from the 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment was killed by a US A-10 Warthog attack aircraft in a friendly fire incident. Dozens of other Canadians were wounded in the incident.
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