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Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan Battle of Takur Ghar: 4 March 2002: 5 March 2002: The peak of Takur Ghar: Battle: A helicopter caring a SEAL team went down and began receiving fire from hostile forces Battle of ...
August 6: A US CH-47 Chinook helicopter being flown by the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment was shot down by an RPG killing 30 American and eight Afghan soldiers. Some of the casualties were from The US Navy's SEAL Team Six [90] [91]
The helicopter battalions are often grouped into aviation brigades. There are also a few fixed-wing aircraft battalions, consisting of training aircraft, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail operational aircraft, and Beechcraft C-12 Huron / Cessna UC-35 transports for VIP personnel.
After the Stage IV transition of authority to ISAF, the status of the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade/Task Force Falcon, which handles all the helicopter combat aviation duties in Afghanistan, was uncertain, along with the exact status of Combined Task Force Sword, the engineer task force, and the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force.
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.
November 12 - A suicide bomber killed two (a third died from wounds on December 3) US Soldiers from HHC, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division at the Bagram airbase, two American contractors were also killed in the blast and 16 other U.S. service members and a Polish service member were wounded. The bomber ...
Thus all ARNG aviation brigades consist of 1x attack reconnaissance battalion (24 AH-64 Apache), 1x security and support battalion (24 UH-72 Lakota), 1x assault helicopter battalion (30 UH-60 Black Hawk), 1x general support aviation battalion (8 UH-60, 12 CH-47 Chinook and 15 HH-60M), 1x UAV company (12 MQ-1C Gray Eagle), and 1x aviation ...
Operation Herrick was the codename under which all British operations in the War in Afghanistan were conducted from 2002 to the end of combat operations in 2014. It consisted of the British contribution to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and support to the American-led Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).