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Gannon and Criscio argued that the new footage should be used to reevaluate the level of awards previously given to both their sons. And he was actually asking Bryan and Dustin if they were good to go.” “There was a communication error where the team thought that Jeremiah was giving them the thumbs up - that they were good to move. “The team could not hear Jeremiah reaching out to them to let them know where they were,” Criscio said. team when he and two Nigerien partners were unable to reenter their vehicle due to concentrated enemy fire.Ĭriscio, Wright’s mother, said the new footage shows the other three slain soldiers experiencing radio and signaling trouble. He was also eventually separated from the larger U.S. La David Johnson was only briefly on the helmet camera footage, family members said, because he was tasked to a different vehicle when the gun battle unfolded. Rare awards show Nigerien valor in 2017 ambush of Army Green Berets

4, 2017, when the ISIS militants led by Dondou Chefou ambushed the special operations team. In addition to Jeremiah Johnson, Wright and Black, Sgt. “To protect the privacy of the families and out of respect for their loss, DoD is not releasing the video or a description of its contents.” “Our primary concern is with the families of our fallen soldiers who were notified about the video last month after appropriate agencies were able to determine what the footage depicted,” Kellogg said. troops did not participate in the mission, but family of the fallen said they were told the video was secured by the French. He declined to name the partner force since U.S. Africa Command received the video for analysis in mid-August from a foreign military, Kellogg confirmed to Army Times. The fact that more helmet camera footage was recovered by French forces came to light during a Question & Answer session for the documentary’s premier in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The winding tale of how the lightly armed team ended up in the melee, and why the military’s investigation placed primary blame on the ground force rather than senior leaders, is the subject of a new ABC documentary, 3212 UN-REDACTED, by investigative journalist James Gordon Meek, which premiers Thursday on Hulu.īook excerpt: ‘Sacrifice: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth’ But the entire video may bolster the case for award upgrades, as well as renew focus on the botched mission that led the 3rd Group team into an ambush.

“It would be inappropriate to speculate about or presuppose any decision related to the awards process.”Ī much shorter, edited version of the video was disseminated by ISIS propagandists a year after the fatal ambush near the village of Tongo Tongo. “Based on the new video, soldiers’ awards could be reevaluated,” said SOCOM spokesman Col. Special Operations Command left the possibility open for award upgrades when reached for comment. “You see them holding their ground until they cannot hold it any longer.” “You don’t see them running away from the battle,” Terri Criscio, the mother of Wright, agreed. “Jeremiah composed himself after being shot three times and he was still helping Dustin, telling him where the shots were coming from, and he was still shooting,” Gannon said.