EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — On September 4, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unveiled and dedicated a new memorial in honor of 10 foreign-deployed advisory and support team (FAST) members – three DEA special agents and seven U.S. military personnel – whose lives were lost in a helicopter crash in western Afghanistan in 2009.
One of those honored in the display is DEA Special Agent Forrest N. Leamon, who served in the El Paso Field Division starting in 2003.
Following the Taliban’s attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, the DEA formed FAST to combat heroin production in Afghanistan, which was in part funding the activities of this terrorist organization…