Shrapnel from rocket fire damages Joint Chiefs chair's plane in Afghanistan

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dempsey was in his room at the time of the incident and was unharmed…

The C-17 was parked at Bagram Air Field, outside Kabul, overnight when it was hit by shrapnel from two rockets, said Dempsey’s spokesman Col. David Lapan. Two base maintenance personnel were slightly injured, he said.

A NATO helicopter was also damaged, the alliance said.