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2017-07-04 Terror Networks

July 4th: Remembering Staff Sergeant Patrick Hamburger, Extortion 17

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-04 04:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Thank you Besoeker for this post. It is the extraordinary such as SSG Hamburger as well as the ordinary men and women of this country who make it great. Thanks to them.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-04 10:10|| 2017-07-04 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 I had to look this up. I don't recall this from back then, thanks mostly to our MSM wonderful coverages.

Extortion 17

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.[6][7] The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—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.[8][9][10][11] It is considered the worst loss of American lives in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign, surpassing Operation Red Wings in 2005.

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