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To: bagster

Is this referring to the seal team-Bin Laden raid or a current mission? I’m pretty bad at this stuff. There’s a reference to the number 14 and silence being golden. Does anyone remember how many of them were killed in the jet crash?


504 posted on 02/10/2018 5:09:36 AM PST by kelly4c
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To: kelly4c

It was a helicopter, not a jet. 25 members of Seal Team Six were killed due to enemy action when it was shot down. It was as if the Taliban “knew” when it would be over them and who was on it.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash.html

Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed former Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Saturday. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war against the Taliban.

A total number of 38 people died in the crash, killing 7 Afghans and one interpreter.


571 posted on 02/10/2018 7:09:03 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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