The number of casualties caused public outcry in Germany as it was highest figure of all deployments abroad that the German army since World War II. Participation in the ISAF marks the first time since World War II that German ground troops have fought an organized enemy. Prior to 2002, the Bundeswehr had sustained only 5-7 deaths connected to hostile activity, including their first peacekeeping death, a army medic with
United Nations troops in
Cambodia who was killed in 1993. As a direct result of the number of deaths, German
Federal Minister of Defence,
Franz Josef Jung, presented plans to establish a central memorial for fallen soldiers in
Berlin on June 17, 2007. Furthermore, the Bundeswehr has unveiled a new order which is to honour acts of heroism achieved in deployments abroad: the
Cross of Honour for Bravery. An incident that occurred on June 26, 2005, which was at first declared an accident by the
Cabinet of Germany turned out to have been an attack with a remote-controlled device. A anonymous soldier, a staff sergeant, was found dead in his
barracks in
Mazar-i-Sharif. German officials classified the incident as a
suicide. In a statement published on February 2, 2008, Herr Jung mentioned a number of 26 German soldiers who had been killed in Afghanistan. In a 2010 interview,
Special Forces Command (KSK) commander Hans-Christoph Ammon said that no KSK soldiers had so far been killed in action. However, a press release from the
US European Command confirmed that at least one KSK soldier was wounded in action in Afghanistan sometime between June and October 2005. ==Chronology of incidents==