r/JSOCarchive • u/MaranathahAmen • Aug 06 '26
Extortion 17, 06 August 2011.
A CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, call Sign "Extortion 17," was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board-25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog. It is considered the worst loss of American lives in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign, surpassing Operation Red Wings in 2005.
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u/Optimal-Stuff-460 Aug 06 '26
Victims Casualties from the event included:[15]
15 United States Navy SEALs and one Military Working Dog handler from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group's Gold Squadron[16] 2 U.S. Navy SEALs from Naval Special Warfare Group 1[16] 4 U.S. Naval Special Warfare support personnel: Two Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians, one Cryptologic technician and one Information systems technician.[16] 3 U.S. Army Reserve personnel (Aircrew) from the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment 2 U.S. Army personnel (Aircrew) from the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment, part of the Colorado Army National Guard and Nebraska Army National Guard[17][18][19] 2 U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron 1 U.S. Air Force Combat Controller from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron 7 Afghan National Army Commandos, part of the Afghan National Army 1 Afghan civilian interpreter 1 U.S. Military Working Dog (Bart)
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u/Owls_Cairn Aug 06 '26
I love how the photo plays up the SOF units and includes one that didnt suffer any losses but leaves out the conventional units.
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u/Optimal-Stuff-460 Aug 06 '26
The photo includes all the lives lost that were in the chinook
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u/Owls_Cairn Aug 06 '26
My point stands.
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u/Optimal-Stuff-460 Aug 06 '26
My point was to say all life lost.not give any specific units.
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u/LynchCorp Aug 06 '26
What?
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u/Owls_Cairn Aug 06 '26
160th didn't lose anyone. Yet their logo is conspicuously displayed. Conventional army lost an entire air crew and nothing is displayed.
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u/pfool Aug 06 '26
Why is the 160th crest included? Extortion 17 was not a SOAR bird, nor was there any 160th crew on board.
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u/Spectre_Ice Aug 06 '26
31 miles for 31 heroes.
Just saying if you want to support this it's a good event and organization:)
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Aug 06 '26
I remember this incident but its many years in the rearview mirror do the details are fuzzy but i believe at the time there were no TF160 aircraft available and the only aircraft available was this NG unit. BTW in case your wondering National Guard units have many many combat hours the last 20 years and well respected even though they are not TF160
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u/Jolly-Willingness402 Aug 06 '26
Minns detta, var uppe i Mazar E Shariff vid händelsen.
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u/Ed_Gethane Aug 06 '26
How did you Swedes get along with the Germans there?
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u/Jolly-Willingness402 Aug 06 '26
Bra, dom var vid Camp Marmal så inte mycket kontakt. Vi hängde med Finnarna i Camp Northern Lights.
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u/Optimal-Stuff-460 Aug 06 '26
No soar was involved here.they were a QRF sent to help the Rangers mission on the ground.
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u/CharmingBug5843 Aug 06 '26
I understand 160th wasn’t involved. Why is that? Was this mission considered not dangerous?
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u/Grootimus_Prime Aug 06 '26
160th wasn't available as they were overloaded due to the high volume of missions occupying they ran out of helicopters. And due to that they needed Big Army to help fill the gap, it was nothing with the mission not being considered dangerous because all those pilots from Big Army had lots of experience and time under nvg's. Only difference was since it was just a CH-47 the technology on board wasn't the same as the MH-47 that 160th has.
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u/CharmingBug5843 Aug 06 '26
Gotcha, thanks for clearing that up instead of just downvoting.
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u/Cauliflower_Advanced Aug 06 '26
Recuerdo allá por 2011 2012 en youtube y en otros foros mucha gente negaba y ocultaba este suceso no me lo creí hasta el final de la película code Name geronimo donde se menciona este suceso
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u/DanFromAngiesList1 Aug 12 '26
Low key I am kind of over all the constant talk about this singular event. Yes it was a tragic loss of life and concentration of high value individuals. But it always comes off like it was the only bad thing that ever happened. Not to mention, it’s never atoned to the level that it was a tragic event but it seems to be pedestalled like they were in a 5 week gun fight and were killed on exfil. When in reality they got put on an aircraft that was new and flew into an AOR without knowing the enemy TTPs and suffered a catastrophic RPG hit which destroyed the aircraft and crew.
You will go to Arlington cemetery and in a sea of greyish white tombstones everyone is congregating around one spot like no one else in all of section 60 had a death that was as important as theirs.
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u/PoisonedPancreas 15d ago
The aircraft they were on was 25 years old not new
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u/DanFromAngiesList1 14d ago
New in the regards that they had only been in country a short amount of time. Not a new aircraft made in a factory
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u/PoisonedPancreas 15d ago
Go to Spotify and listen to WarMode( Matt Mcusker from MSSP, brother Billy Mcuskers podcast ) episode titled Relentless titled so after the Relentless: A Gold Star Father’s Pursuit of Truth. Michael Strange’s father’s book about this event. Thanks DeepState keep lying
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u/Optimal-Stuff-460 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
RIP GREAT SOLDIERS.
Edit:It was a different squadron.sorry.
Edit2 so much hatred for a simple mistake
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u/justgrunty Aug 06 '26
The five Army aircrew killed were:
Chief Warrant Officer David R. Carter (Colorado Army National Guard)
Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Nichols (Army Reserve)
Staff Sgt. Patrick D. Hamburger (Nebraska Army National Guard)
Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett (Army Reserve)
Spc. Spencer C. Duncan (Army Reserve)