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Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six is a 2015 non-fiction expose, written by best-selling author and former U.S. Navy JAG Officer Don Brown, about the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of a United States Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
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.
Michael Raymond "Goody" Goodboe (July 6, 1966 – November 25, 2020) was a senior Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer with the Special Activities Center and former member of United States Navy SEAL Team Six who was killed in a terrorist attack presumed to have been conducted by Al-Shabaab (militant group) in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 25, 2020.
In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday. Navy SEAL, 8-year-old American girl died in Yemen raid Skip to ...
The incident has been described as either result of a "hazing" or to cover up other crimes committed by the perpetrators. [1] [2] Shortly after Melgar's death, two unnamed members of the United States Navy's SEAL Team Six were flown out of Mali and placed on administrative leave as persons of interest to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
The SEAL team exited and needed to breach two walls and then into the house. As a result, Osama bin Laden was killed several minutes into the operation. [54] Pfarrer's account differs in that he wrote that a SEAL team was inserted onto the roof of the main house, that Osama bin Laden was killed seconds into the operation, and that the main ...
Richard “Dick” Marcinko, the first commanding officer of Navy SEAL Team 6, died on Christmas Day at the age of 81, according to his family.
By RYAN GORMAN The Navy SEAL who shot dead al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is now reportedly living in poverty after leaving the military four years short of being eligible to receive his pension ...