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7 SEALs, 20 Army Rangers, 4 airmen 4 MH-47 Chinooks, 1 AC-130 gunship, 2 F-15Es, 2 F-16s, 1 Armed Predator Drone: At least 10 at hilltop camp [3] Around 35 in reinforcement [4] Casualties and losses; 7 killed 12 wounded 2 Chinooks lost: 25–200 killed [2
SEALs prior to Operation Red Wings (L to R): Matthew Axelson, Daniel R. Healy, James Suh, Marcus Luttrell, Eric S. Patton, Michael P. Murphy SEAL Danny Dietz After the initial invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, U.S. military and coalition partner operations shifted from "kinetic" operations to those of a counterinsurgency nature. [2]
On August 6, 2011, the highest number of American fatalities in a single incident occurred in Wardak Province: 30 Americans (incl. 22 Navy SEALs), seven Afghan soldiers, and a civilian interpreter were all killed when their CH-47 Chinook was shot down; the attack was later claimed by the Taliban.
Dick Couch – Author of several books on SEALs including The Warrior Elite: Forging of SEAL Class 228, The Finishing School, and Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism. Graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Cade Courtley – Actor, contestant on the reality series Combat Missions, and host of Spike's Surviving Disaster.
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.
13 June 2008: A US MQ-1B Predator is lost in Afghanistan. [260] 9 April 2008: A British MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed in Afghanistan after a mechanical issue. [260] 22 March 2008: A US Army General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is lost in Afghanistan. [260] 28 January 2008: A US Army General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is lost in Afghanistan. [260]
A new military investigation reveals extensive details of the deadly mission to stop weapons from going to the Houthis.
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.