VIDEO: 3 U.S. Soldiers SHOT In SUSPICIOUS Attack At Military Base!

Three U.S. Army soldiers were shot and wounded Sunday when an Afghan Army soldier opened fire on them inside a base in southern Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand Province, officials told Fox News.

Capt. William Salvin, a U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, said security forces on the base killed the attacker.

“Coalition security forces on the base killed the soldier to end the attack,” Capt. Salvin said. “The U.S. soldiers are receiving medical treatment at this time and we will release more information when available.”

The severity of the soldier’s wounds was not immediately clear. Salvin declined to offer more details.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the shooting involved a Taliban sympathizer, a personal dispute, a cultural misunderstanding or something else, Task&Purpose reports.

Since 2008, there have been 94 “insider” attacks in Afghanistan, with at least 150 foreign soldiers killed and 187 wounded, according to the Long War Journal blog.

The attack occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time at Camp Antonik in Washer District in Helmand.

There are roughly 8,400 U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan — more than in Iraq and Syria combined.

Additionally, the Pentagon is weighing a decision to send more U.S. forces to Afghanistan. The top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. John Nicholson, told Congress earlier this year he needed more U.S. and allied soldiers to help train the Afghan army.

A detachment of U.S. Marines is scheduled to replace the Army unit in Helmand Province in the coming weeks. Hundreds of Marines were killed fighting the Taliban in Helmand at the height of the Afghan war.

Since October, 12 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan and five Americans are currently being held hostage there.

Obama-era force management levels, known more broadly as “troop caps,” have strictly controlled the number of U.S. soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan (and Iraq and Syria, too).

Here’s the video via Fox News:

During a recent visit to Ft. Campbell, home of the famed 101st Airborne Division, Apache gunship pilots told Fox News about the recent deployment of 101’s aviation brigade to Afghanistan — only the helicopters and pilots deployed. The mechanics were left at home because of the troop caps.

As a result, expensive contractors were paid tens of millions of dollars to fix the helicopters overseas.