The hype for the new season will reach a new pitch during the 2015 NFL Draft. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have the first overall pick in this yearâs draft, which will run April 30 to May 2. The Patriots, as the defending champions, will pick last.
The CIA has disclosed that four of its officers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past eight years. One of them was Johnny Mike Spann, a paramilitary officer who was killed during a riot at the Qala-i-Jangi compound near Mazar-i-Sharif in November 2001.
Yet during 2002 and 2003, the average number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan never topped 10,400. That means the U.S. forces left in country following the war will top the number fighting there during its first two years. A total of 3,485 allied troops died in Afghanistan over the past 13 years, including 2,356 Americans.