Posted on Aug 6, 2015
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Please take a moment today to remember the ultimate sacrifice of our fallen warriors of Extortion 17. [Four] years ago on this day, August 6th, we lost 31 brave Americans. These special operators were lost when their CH-47 Chinook was shot down while on the way to reinforce a group of Army Rangers who were engaged in the unforgiving Wardak Province of Afghanistan. To the families of these brave men, we salute you and will never forget the sacrifices that were made for all of us. We are forever grateful.

SGT Alexander J. Bennett
SPC Spencer Duncan
CWO Bryan J. Nichols
CWO David R. Carter
SSG Patrick D. Hamburger
TSgt John W. Brown
SSgt Andrew W. Harvell
TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe
PO1 (SEAL) Darrick C. Benson
CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill
PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell
PO1 Jared W. Day
PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog “Bart”
CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas
CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston
Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall
MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais
CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason
CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills
CPO Nicholas H. Null
PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman
SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff
CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves
CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson
PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar
PO1 Michael J. Strange
PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson
PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn
SCPO Kraig M. Vickers
PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman


http://navyseals.com/3101/extortion-17-remember-our-brothers/
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SFC Mark Merino
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I'm glad you posted this. I was putting together a thread and discovered it was already posted. Thank you for remembering this horrific event. What a loss to the SOC community.
John 15:13
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Courtney Minturn
Courtney Minturn
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I have studied this and written about Extortion17 since Day 1. I used to work for The CIA and so many things were NOT SOP that night. There is NO WAY AT ALL THAT THIS IS A "LUCKY SHOT" AS CLAIMED BY THIS ADMINISTRATION! I have written about it in so many places, written to my contacts in so many agencies, congress, tv networks. Obama and his Admin need to be held accountable for this - it was NOT AN ACCIDENT AT ALL! Y'all know that you NEVER TELL WHICH TEAM WORKED ON WHAT MISSION and this Admin told the world ON TV - it was SEAL TEAM 6! As soon as I heard that I knew they were going to be targeted. THEY DID TOO AND TOLD THEIR FAMILIES! AND THEN IT HAPPENED. THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARING WAS NOT EVEN A TRUE CONGRESSIONAL HEARING - it was a joke. I am STILL trying to get a REAL HEARING! You can't even call what happened in the Hearing a Congressional Hearing. As I said to Mrs. Karen Vaughn, WTH, all they did was introduce themselves with their titles and give us no details and that was it - WE WANT A REAL HEARING! I KNOW THAT WE NEED TO WORK TO GET THIS ADMINISTRATION HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
I write about BENGHAZI TOO. I wrote about it as it was happening. That is at the time when I was on Facebook and I kept saying that night....WHERE IS OUR PRESIDENT? WTH? WHERE IS HE? WHY IS HE NOT TAKING ACTION? THEN I KEPT STARTING PAGES TO "HOLD OBAMA RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT TAKING ACTION FOR BENGHAZI4" AND FACEBOOK BLOCKED EACH ITEM, POST, PAGE, EVERYTHING! THEY SUCK! SO I HAVE NEVER USED FB SINCE AND DELETED EVERYTHING CUZ THEY LOVE OBAMA! But BENNGHAZI4 IS A HUGE TRAGEDY AND SO IS EXTORTION17 AND BOTH NEED TO HAVE OBAMA & CLINTON HELP ACCOUNTABLE! IT IS UNBELIEVEABLE THAT THEY KEEP GETTING A FREE PASS!
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Sgt Martin Querin
Sgt Martin Querin
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A sad day for any that served and have any compassion, or sense of brotherhood for those that gave all. And that so many were lost, the whole operation was SNAFU from the get go.

Semper Fi
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SCPO David Lockwood
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Amen
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CPL Dave Hoover
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I was in tears off and on for 6 hours after first hearing. Still can't think about it without the emotions. RIP dear brothers.
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