TYB
On August 6, 2011 Extortion 17, a CH-47 D Model Chinook; tail number 84-24175 took its final flight. All 31 souls perished that night in the Tangi Valley, due to a RPG attack into the rear section of the aircraft. We will honor and remember them all.
SGT Alexander J. Bennett, FE
SPC Spencer Duncan, FE
CW2 Bryan J. Nichols, PI
CW4 (CW5) David R. Carter, PIC
SSG Patrick D. Hamburger, FE
TSgt John W. Brown
SSgt Andrew W. Harvell
TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe
PO1 Jared W. Day
PO1 John Douangdara
Navy SEAL Working Dog Bart
SCPO Kraig M. Vickers
CPO Nicholas H. Null
PO1 Michael J. Strange
CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas
CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston
Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall
MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais
CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason 3/5
CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills
PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman
SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff
CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves
CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson
PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar
PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson
PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn
PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman
PO1 (SEAL) Darrick C. Benson
CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill
PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell.
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Wikipedia says the shootdown of Extortion 17 did NOT kill the special operators who killed OBL/UBL.
Doubts about this story were raised by families and other concerned citizens despite the fact that the US Navy SEAL team aboard Extortion 17 had been a different platoon than had carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden three months earlier. The theories suggest that there had been leaked information from Afghan forces to the Taliban about the mission, allowing the Taliban to plan and carry out the strike against Extortion 17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Boeing_Chinook_shootdown
As does this guy.
The Chinook from B Company - "Muleskinners", 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 135th Aviation Brigade (B-2/135 GSAB), Army National Guard, with elements in Aurora, Colorado and Grand Island, Nebraska was carrying 38 personnel, most of them from the elite Navy SEAL Team 6 unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, along with seven Afghan commandos. None of the Sea Air Land (SEAL) Team members aboard were involved in the Bin Laden incident.
http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/D_Models/84-24175/84-24175.html
Others disagree. Or do they?
Due to the sheer magnitude of loss of life, combined with recent news of SEAL Team Six's successful raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, global media outlets lionized the tragedy.
https://www.newsweek.com/extortion-17-seal-team-six-navy-seals-afghanistan-conspiracy-theories-names-657841
Thirty-one U.S. special forces troops and seven Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter was shot down during an overnight operation against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. The helicopter was taking the personnel back to their base after an operation.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/137858
>back to their base
That's a discrepency as other accounts describe they were nearingtouchdown at an LZ for combat operations.
However, US officials have told both the BBC and AP they do not believe that any of those who took part in the Bin Laden operation were on the downed helicopter.
The size of Team Six, an elite unit within the Seals, which is officially called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is not known.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-14430735
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, and they could hardly have found a more valuable target: American officials said that 22 of the dead were Navy Seal commandos, including members of Seal Team 6. Other commandos from that team conducted the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Bin Laden in May. The officials said that those who were killed Saturday were not involved in the Pakistan mission.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/world/asia/07afghanistan.html?_r=1&hp
So anon figures no one outside SOCOM knows the exact size of the unit known as Seal Team Six. But all these sources say the soldiers who died did not include any of the Seal Team Six members that participated in the Bin Laden raid.
Fake News?
I've heard it claimed over and over again that the soldiers killed in the shoot down were the exact same members that were on the Bin Laden raid.