. On August 6th, 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. If I had to sum it up in one image, look at the photo above. It is considered the worst loss of American lives in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign, surpassing Operation Red Wings in 2005. At the end of this I have to agree with the authors assessment of a cover up. With killed 38 people on board, it was the largest single-day loss of life in naval special warfare history and the largest single-day loss of life during the war in Afghanistan. Read it for bookclub. Please try again. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. In the months following this devastating loss the Vaughns began searching for answers. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Many of his ideas have no basis. 06 AUG 2011 a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. He delivers the worst day in the history of the United States Special Forces in a very systematic review. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. His comment "...or someone impersonating Bryan Nichols" is far-fetched. According to his book, No Easy Day (detailing his participation in Operation Neptune Spear) Mark Owen (the pen name of former SEAL Operator Matt Bissonnette) stated that nearly all of the Operators on that mission were handpicked from Red Squadron. Sgt. It is worse than Benghazi. Read like a court transcript -- without any sidebar comments or discussion of what the testimony meant. Unless you want to read 15 or more times that there were 7 unidentified Afghanistanis on the helicopter -- without any resolution or explanation -- OR a detailed explanation of the absolute angle for an RPG to hit the helicopter and where it came from -- this is an absolutely terrible book. Same information repeated over and over. There's a problem loading this menu right now. The crash is referred to as Extortion 17 by the callsign of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter involved in the crash. The Annual 2017 Extortion 17 Legacy Ride will be held Saturday, August 5, 2017. Andrew W. Harvell, 26, of Long Beach, CA, and 30) Tech. NEVER FORGET ⠀ Today we Honor and Remember those we lost on August 6, 2011. I guess that I am mostly disturbed by the Congressional investigation led by Jason Chaffetz. Some sources state that at the time of the shootdown the two AH-64 Apache helicopters were engaged in tracking another Taliban group and were thus unable to provide surveillance (of the landing zone and infiltration route) as well as fire support to the inbound CH-47D helicopter carrying the Navy SEAL team. The previous highest U.S. death toll from a single incident in the war also came from a rocket attack on a Chinook helicopter carrying Navy SEALs during Operation Red Wings on June 28, 2005. He debunks the cook-off round theory with solid evidence and use of simple plane geometry to question the location of the squirted. The call sign for the Chinook was "Extortion 17". Sgt. The SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two remaining still floating today. After some time another group of about 10 Taliban fighters was spotted that we suspected could be Qari Tahir himself fleeing the scene. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Her son was a paramedic and attended to the medical needs of those who were rescued, she said. It’s the worst day in our history by a mile.”. Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six. The group fired 2-3 RPG rounds from a two-story building from a location some 220 meters south of the helicopter. The Extortion 17 Legacy … We will honor and remember them all. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. John Matthew Berberick, 60, of Independence, died at 2:35 a.m. today, Jan. 31, 1997, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, where he had been undergoing treatment. Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2020. To many coincidences and to many changing or conflicting stories.. On August 6, 2011 Extortion 17, a CH-47 D Model Chinook; tail number 84-24175 took its final flight. The Siloam Springs, Ark., native was 33, and in his ninth year of service. Still a great read if you are interested in learning about this operation but could probably have been done in 100 less pages. This is the second book I have read on Extortion17, but the most informative. A very sad story as any story about American loss would be. Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2018. The ship is today a museum ship located at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore Harbor. The 30 American deaths represent the greatest loss of U.S. military lives in a single incident in the, by then, a decade-long war in Afghanistan that began in 2001. No Afghanis were questioned and it seems the questions posed to Reid, an Obama man, were poorly thought out and answers too easily accepted. He lives and practices law in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the outing of the Seals by Obama and Biden, they never had a chance. The Final Flight of Extortion 17 It was the deadliest helicopter crash in the history of U.S. special operations. The idea of a shootout in the helicopter in the minutes leading up the HLZ are, I believe, ludicrous. In mid-2011, combined with a U.S. Army aviation battalion, they had spent weeks conducting operations nearly every other night in Wardak and surrounding provinces south of Kabul to capture or kill Taliban forces, disrupt attack plots, and deny them sanctuary on this strategic approach to Kabul City. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. The attack killed the Air National guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and seventeen members of Navy SEAL Team Six—warrior brothers from the same Team that had killed Osama Bin Laden just ninety days prior. 5 U.S. He presents the Final Flight of EXTORTION 17 (spoken one seven and seventeen), like a Defense Attorney or an investigator. These men were killed with the aid of the Obama administration. Required fields are marked *. Mr. Brown made some very valid points about the attack on Extortion 17. John W. Brown was among those on board, his mother, Elizabeth Newlun, said by telephone. He died Aug. 6 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed. There is a lot of controversy and discussion regarding the operators from the Gold Squadron and died abroad the Extortion 17 chopper was part of Operation Neptune Spear a few months earlier. The U.S. Navy SEAL task force assigned to conduct operations in Tangi Valley was well conditioned to the dangerous operating environment. All 38 passengers aboard Extortion 17, including 30 U.S. military personnel, eight Afghans and a U.S. military working dog, were killed after the transport helicopter was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. Well explained to military and civilian readers. John W. Brown, 33, of Siloam Springs, AR, was assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, N.C. Two of the SEALs were from a West Coast SEAL unit, but the others were from Gold Squadron of Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU, sometimes known as SEAL Team 6, said the NSW source.”. Sgt. The crash killed all 38 people on board — including 25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter — as well as a U.S. military working dog. Their deaths are the greatest single loss of life ever suffered by the U.S. Special Operations community in the 24-year history of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Rest in peace gentlemen, you will not be forgotten. Since listening to this book, I have done a lot more research on Extortion 17 and am totally dumbfounded as to how this happened unless ordered from above. On 5 August 2011, Sergeant Brown and his team responded on a mission to eliminate or capture a high-value Taliban commander in Afghanistan. The following was extracted from The Navy Times: If one is to believe the account of Matt Bissonnette, the only possibility of a participant of the bin Laden raid perishing on Extortion 17 is if the one SEAL specifically noted not to be a member of Red Squadron was a member of Gold Squadron and a passenger aboard the ill-fated Chinook. All of them were men of courage, integrity, and honor. A number of itinerant ministers served the struggling congregation until FCC hired its first full time minister in 1883. On that day, the United States sustained the greatest single loss of lives to our Special Operations Forces in American history when U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook, call sign "Extortion 17", was shot down by Taliban fighters south of Kabul, Afghanistan.⠀ View fullsize. America will ALWAYS REMEMBER and NEVER FORGET all who died in August 6, 2011 in EXTORTION 17 in the Tango Valley of Afghanistan! Some 30 seconds later one of the AH-64 Apache helicopters in the area reported: “Fallen Angel“. Qari Tahir, the man our forces were attempting to capture or kill on August 5, 2011, is one of many Taliban leaders who dedicate their lives to a corrupt agenda that seeks to eliminate freedom, equality, and prosperity in exchange for a medieval society built on violent extremism and wanton destruction. For now, we simply honor The Fallen of Extortion 17: 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 Today marks the seventh anniversary of Extortion 17 and its last flight, during which all 38 occupants aboard the Army CH-47D Chinook helicopter were shot down over Afghanistan by the Taliban with a rocket-propelled grenade. The attack killed the Air National guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and seventeen members of Navy SEAL Team Six—warrior brothers from the same Team had killed Osama Bin Laden just ninety days prior. Extortion 17 was attached to a mission to capture or kill a senior Taliban leader, Qari Tahir, near Kabul, Afghanistan. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. On August 6, 2011—three months after members of Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden—Taliban forces took down a United States helicopter, call sign "Extortion 17." At 10:58 p.m., they were inserted by the same CH-47D helicopters that would later conduct the mission to insert the SEAL team. On the whole...things that make you go, Hmmm. 3 U.S. Army Reserve personnel from the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment, 2 U.S. Army personnel from the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment, part of Colorado Army National Guard, 1 U.S. Air Force Combat Controller from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog “Bart”, “Of the 22 NSW members killed, 17 were SEALs and five were direct support personnel, according to the source in the NSW community. The loss of 30 American heroes is still a gaping wound in the hearts of their loved ones, and in the psyche … I started by reviewing several different books on the shoot down at my local chain book store. The 30 Navy SEALs and other Special Forces personnel, along with the Helicopter flight crew because American Military and Political leaders threw these men under the bus the enemy was driving and then covered it all up with lies and deceit. “I think I’m internally very upset, but at the same time, I’m so very proud of my son,” Newlun said. A website dedicated to the memory of the Extortion 17 operation contains an eyewitness account of a memorial held today in Afghanistan for those killed two years ago. Were the SEALS sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and deliberately flown into a known Taliban hot zone? Its growth and development in the early years was difficult, for the lack of a regular, full time pastor. He lives and practices law in Charlotte, North Carolina. On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. To address some of the unanswered questions, the committee received briefings, classified and unclassified, on the operational component leading up to the loss of the 30 servicemen and eight Afghan nationals, and on the postmortem handling of the 30 American servicemen on Extortion 17. I will recommend this book to everyone I know! The day Aaron’s life ended theirs began again. TSgt John W. Brown SSgt Andrew W. Harvell TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe May We Never Forget. The Extortion 17 Legacy Ride is dedicated in memory of the 30 active duty military, and 1 military working dog killed in action on August 6, 2011 when a CH–47 helicopter was shot down by enemy fire in Afghanistan. An interesting read. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. On August 6, 2011 Aaron was killed in action in the Tangi River Valley of Afghanistan when a chopper (call sign Extortion 17) carrying thirty Americans was shot from the sky. I’ll try to reply the best I can. The crash killed all 38 people on board — including 25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter — as well as a U.S. military working dog. This will probably be one of those instances where we never find out why these 30 brave Americans were sacrificed. The 30 American Servicemen who were killed in action (KIA) with the downing of Extortion 17. “The SEALs who assaulted Osama bin Laden’s compound were drawn from Naval Special Warfare Development Group’s Red Squadron, according to several sources in the special operations community.”. The Fallen: •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 John W. Brown arrived off the beachhead at Bougnon Bay at 18:00 on 15 August 1944, ten hours after the initial landings, and began unloading her troops and their equipment on 16 August, completing the process on 21 August. It’s about way more than a patch or bragging rights. Do soldiers ever keep a bullet for themselves? The second round struck one of the three aft rotor blades of the helicopter destroying the aft rotor assembly. It made 13 wartime voyages to the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, including duty during the Anzio landings. Lyons Press; Illustrated edition (May 29, 2015), Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018. A CH-47 about to land in Logar Province, Afghanistan. Through a serious examination of the evidence, and the lack thereof, Brown tackles the issues of the case as only an experienced military prosecutor can. The crash is referred to as Extortion 17 by the callsign of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter involved in the crash. As the operation got underway, our airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, including an MQ-9 Predator, detected a group evading the Rangers, moving towards the north. Brown grew up in Siloam Springs and graduated in 1996. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. 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Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2018. What is the equivalent of an AK-47 for sniper rifles? The problem probably layed with the editor who should have done some agrees I've chopping. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. John W. Randall was the key instigator in the formation of this church. The Dirt Navy: US Navy SEABEEs build and fight in Afghanistan, Navy Seal dramatic Taliban hostage rescue, Operation Spring of Youth: Retaliation for the Munich massacre. Die Tragik um den Abschuss von Extortion 17 und eine gründliche Untersuchung der Ursachen für den Tod von 38 Menschen im August 2011 bilden die Grundlage für dieses Buch. Tech. This kind of fact based book makes you wonder how much we have no clue about. I am 2/3rds of the way through and probably 40 pages could be thrown out. The author keeps repeating assumptions, without providing the evidence. Upon learning of Tahir’s possible location, a team of U.S. Army Rangers and Afghan Special Forces was deployed into the valley from the south. There are still MANY unanswered questions. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campbell University School of Law, and holding a certificate of International Law from the U.S. Something went wrong. RIP, Extortion 17: August 6, 2016 marks five years since 30 American military servicemen and a U.S. military dog were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter — call sign Extortion 17 … Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. A great, troubling expose. His helicopter was attacked in the target area by enemy fighters and was shot down by a rocket propelled grenade. During her stay off the beachhead, there were numerous German air attacks and alerts in her vicinity, peaking at six alerts on 17 August; her U.S. Navy Armed Guard gunners may have … Your email address will not be published. Extortion 17 was shot down by a Taliban fighter with a rocket-propelled grenade seconds before it was to land on August 6, 2011, in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Daniel L. Zerbe, 28, of York, PA. , a former United States Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney, is the author of ten military and legal novels, including the nationally bestselling novels. Stephen Mahn Thapwa, of St. Andrew's, and the Rev. I love his writing style! My 3 star review is simply due to the repetitive nature of this book, which was stated in many other comments. Unable to add item to List. Brown delivers a kick in the with every page. This tactic was highly successful; over a period of years, hundreds of operations were conducted without firing a shot. The circumstances surrounding the events of Extortion 17 are tragic. 2 Remembering the Heroes of Extortion 17 On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Ranger in Wardak Providence, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The following passage, published in The Navy Times, seems to support that assertion. Very very sad. He died August 6, 2011 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed. There is a lot of controversy and discussion regarding that question. The SEAL task force was monitoring this activity, and they were soon called upon to deploy quickly into the northern end of the valley to intercept Tahir and capture him and those moving with him. Sgt. 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