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On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), abbreviated as 160th SOAR(A), is a special operations force of the United States Army that provides helicopter aviation support for special operations forces. Its missions have included attack, assault, and reconnaissance, and these missions are usually conducted at night, at high ...
United States Special Operations Command. 2015. 21: Appendix 10: Seats Out Operations (PDF) (Report). United States Special Operations Command. 2015. 22–23: Sworn Statements (PDF) (Report). United States Special Operations Command. March 2015. 25, Part 1: Sworn Statement (PDF) (Report). United States Special Operations Command. March 20, 2015.
The five USASOC soldiers, with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment based at Fort, Cambell, Kentucky, were killed Nov. 10 when the Black Hawk helicopter they were on crashed in the ...
Wolfe went on to complete the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment’s training program and was assigned to the regiment’s 1st Battalion as an MH-60M Black Hawk crew chief.
The U.S. Army Special Operations Command on Monday identified the five Army aviation special operations forces killed when their helicopter crashed in the Eastern Mediterranean over the weekend ...
The helicopter crashed when it hit a cellphone tower in the Marouf district of Kandahar province. Thirteen crew members were injured. [47] April 26: Five British service members were killed when a British Westland Lynx helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the NATO-led coalition forces and the British Ministry of Defense said.
3 July – A Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Khyber Pass, Pakistan, killing all 41 people on board. 8 August – A Eurocopter AS350 collides with a Piper PA-32R over the Hudson River between Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City, United States. The six occupants of the helicopter and the three occupants of the Piper aircraft all ...