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.