160th SOAR units were not always available. CH - 47 are and have been commonly used to insert spec ops and QRF troops in Afghanistan due to better altitude performance than MH - 60 blackhawks. The helicopters do not drop of QRF away from the fight. The seal platoon were on QRF duty that night. The CSAR special operations units are almost completely made up of Air National guard units. His theory about the National Guard pilots is bogus. Other than a few of the families of the dead, there is not much to be heard from the seal community past or present. His lack of knowledge on special ops is glaringly obvious. His idea is, 'if you say it 100 times, someone will believe it'.

It is like a commercial for conspiracy theories. What disappointed you about Call Sign Extortion 17? Were the seven Afghan soldiers aboard that helicopter really undercover Taliban who either maneuvered the chopper within easy range of being shot down or sabotaged it from within? Were the SEALs sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and deliberately flown into a known Taliban hot zone?ĭon Brown, a former US Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon and a former special assistant United States attorney, re-creates the wartime action, tells the life stories of the elite warriors our nation lost on that day and tears apart the official military explanation of the incident contained in the infamous Colt Report, which reveals either gross incompetence or a massive cover-up. The attack killed the Air National Guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and 17 members of Navy SEAL Team Six - warrior brothers from the same team that had killed Osama Bin Laden just 90 days prior. On Augthree months after members of Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden - Taliban forces took down a United States helicopter, call sign Extortion 17.

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