...just ask the family members of 16 dead SEAL team members...
The liberal mainstream media said NOTHING back in 2011 when loose-lips Joe Biden outed SEAL Team 6 as the heroes of the Osama Bin Laden raid in Pakistan.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
BS on that story. Here is the story:
Under cover of darkness on the night of August 6, 2011, a special ops team that included a group of U.S. Army Rangers began an assault on a Taliban compound in the village of Jaw-e-Mekh Zareen in the Tangi Valley. The firefight at the house went on for at least two hours, and the ground team called in reinforcements. As the Chinook CH-47 transport helicopter (call sign: Extortion 17) carrying 30 U.S. troops, seven Afghan commandos, an Afghan civilian interpreter and a U.S. military dog approached, the insurgents fired on the helicopter and it crashed to the ground, killing all aboard.
As funerals for the fallen sailors and other servicemen took place throughout the United States, a team of specialists conducted an official investigation to determine the cause of the crash. The resulting report, delivered in October 2011, concluded that a Taliban fighter shot down the Chinook with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) as the helicopter neared its landing zone, and that “all operational decisions, linked to the incident, were deemed tactically sound.”
The Afgans got good at shooting down helicopters coming up mountain valleys, as we showed them how and equipped to against the Russian, when they invaded.
Chinook's are very large. If you are in a fire fight against US forces and you hear one coming up the valley and know, you do not have helicopters like that supporting you, it can only be US reinforcements and you shoot it down with a rocket propelled grenade, just as you were trained to do. You do not even care what unit is on it. It is just a very large slow moving, non-evasive troop carrier, target of opportunity, bringing a large number of troops to kill you if you let it land.
On August 6, 2011, insurgents shot down a Chinook transport helicopter in Afghanistan, killing all 38 people on board...
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