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  2. 12 Strong - Wikipedia

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    ODA 595 is inserted covertly in Afghanistan aboard Boeing CH-47 Chinook flown by 160th SOAR on October 19, 2001. [6] They land 40 miles south of Mazar-i-Sharif , the country's fourth-largest city and a longtime stronghold of the Taliban , where they meet Dostum.

  3. Battle of Qala-i-Jangi - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan (sometimes also referred to as the "Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif") was a six-day military engagement following an uprising of prisoners of war who had been taken into custody by US-led coalition forces on 25 November 2001. The battle took place between 25 November and 1 December, in northern Afghanistan.

  4. 5th Special Forces Group (United States) - Wikipedia

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    ODA 595 from Charlie Company, 3rd Btn, 5th SFG [46] was, along with ODA 555, one of two ODAs inserted on 19 October. They helped General Dostum outside Mazar-i-Sharif. [ 45 ] ODA 595 were instrumental in helping the Northern Alliance to capture several thousand foreign and Afghan Taliban and bringing hundreds more local Afghans over to the ...

  5. Military Footage Shows Some of Last US Troops Leaving Afghanistan

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    The United States Air Force captured footage of service members boarding a military aircraft on August 30, describing it as showing some of the last American troops to leave Afghanistan.According ...

  6. Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif - Wikipedia

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    Together they fought through the Dari-e-Souf Valley and had linked up with Dostum and his force and ODA 595 and the CIA Team Alpha, who had also battled through the valley. [ 13 ] Dostum led the ethnic- Uzbek -dominated faction of the Northern Alliance, the Junbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan , in an attack on the village of Keshendeh southwest ...

  7. Johnny Micheal Spann - Wikipedia

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    Two Afghan doctors, interviewed by author Toby Harnden, witnessed Spann's final moments. They saw the CIA officer, who was about five yards away from them, swing around and raise his AKMS rifle to his shoulder as the prisoners revolted amid sounds of gunfire and grenade explosions. Prisoners were rushing out, straight at Spann.

  8. Republican senator blocks promotion of general who oversaw ...

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    A Republican senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a source familiar with the matter, as President-elect Donald Trump has ...

  9. History of the United States Army Special Forces - Wikipedia

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    [34]: 44 ODA 572 and a CIA Jawbreaker team (small group of CIA SAD ground branch operators) were dispatched to eastern Afghanistan where they recruited some 2,500 to 3,000 into the Afghan Militia Force to take part in the Battle of Tora Bora. On December 20, following the battle, ODA 561 were inserted into the White Mountains to support ODA 572 ...