tnvcinc:: @navysealfoundationToday we Honor and Remember. ⠀ ⠀ On this day in 2011, the United States
tnvcinc:: @navysealfoundationToday we Honor and Remember. ⠀ ⠀ On this day in 2011, the United States sustained the greatest single loss of lives to our Special Operations Forces in American history when U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook, call sign “Extortion 17”, was shot down by Taliban fighters south of Kabul, Afghanistan.⠀ ⠀ Please join us today as we take a moment to honor the memories of those 30 Americans and one Military Working Dog lost on August 6, 2011:⠀ ⠀ CTR1 Michael J. Strange⠀ SOC Matthew Mason⠀ SO1 Christopher Campbell⠀ SOCM Louis Langlais⠀ MA1 John Douangdara⠀ SOC Jason R. Workman⠀ IT1 Jared Day⠀ SOC Brian Bill⠀ SOC John Faas⠀ SOC Jon (JT) Tumilson⠀ EODC Nicholas H. Null⠀ LCDR (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall⠀ SOCS Robert Reeves⠀ SOC Stephen Matthew Mills⠀ EODCS Kraig Vickers⠀ SOCS Thomas Ratzlaff⠀ SOC Kevin Houston⠀ SOCS Heath Robinson⠀ SOC Aaron C. Vaughn⠀ SO1 Darrik Benson⠀ SO1 Jesse Pittman⠀ SO2 Nicholas Spehar⠀ MWD Bart⠀ SGT Alexander J. Bennett⠀ SPC Spencer Duncan⠀ CWO2 Bryan J. Nichols⠀ CWO4 David R. Carter⠀ SSG Patrick D. Hamburger⠀ TSgt John W. Brown⠀ SSgt Andrew W. Harvell⠀ TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe⠀ ⠀ Never Forgotten. -- source link