[OwenKellogg]

Nikos, can I use this space to invite the Trump Family to the Extortion 17 remembrance thread?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3457048/posts

August 6 2011 ~ 5th Anniversary of Extortion 17 Mission

In remembrance ... today marks the 5th anniversary of the shoot down of Extortion 17. On August 6, 2011, the U.S. Navy SEALs and the Special Ops community suffered a huge loss when their CH-47 Chinook was shot down in Afghanistan.

The 30 American deaths represent the greatest loss of U.S. military lives in a single incident in the decade-long war in Afghanistan that began in 2001.

[nikos1121]

Of course!

[hoosiermama]

Thank you for that remembrance thread.
So many lost.

[HokieMom]

Five years ago today, we 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.

Please join us today as we take a moment to honor the memories of those 30 Americans and one Military Working Dog lost on August 6, 2011:

CTR1 Michael J. Strange
SOC Matthew Mason
SO1 Christopher Campbell
SOCM Louis Langlais
MA1 John Douangdara
SOC Jason R. Workman
IT1 Jared Day
SOC Brian Bill
SOC John Faas
SOC Jon (JT) Tumilson
EODC Nicholas H. Null
LCDR (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall
SOCS Robert Reeves
SOC Stephen Matthew Mills
EODCS Kraig Vickers
SOCS Thomas Ratzlaff
SOC Kevin Houston
SOCS Heath Robinson SOC Aaron C. Vaughn
SO1 Darrik Benson
SO1 Jesse Pittman
SO2 Nicholas Spehar
MWD Bart
SGT Alexander J. Bennett
SPC Spencer Duncan
CWO2 Bryan J. Nichols
CWO4 David R. Carter
SSG Patrick D. Hamburger
TSgt John W. Brown
SSgt Andrew W. Harvell
TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe

Never Forgotten.

[lysie]

Thanks for that link.