Contributor(s):Author: Billy Vaughn With: Monica Morrill With: Cari Blake Before BENGHAZI, There was EXTORTION 17.
August 06, 2011, 2: 20 a.
-Operation Lefty Grove is underway, a highly dangerous mission to take out another high-level Taliban operative, three months after the death of Osama Bin Laden.
In the dark of night, twenty-five US Special Ops Forces and a five-man flight crew on board Extortion 17, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
Seven unidentified Afghan Commandos are allowed to join them.
Ground forces have already been engaged in a three-hour exhaustive battle.
Extortion 17's specially trained warriors drop into the Hot Landing Zone to help their fellow warriors.
But there's a problem: the standard chopper escorts have all been directed elsewhere.
Mission directions are unclear.
Worse, pre-assault fire to cover the Chinook transporting our brave fighting men is not ordered.
On that fateful night, Extortion 17 would never touch down.
Taliban fighters fired three rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) in rapid succession.
The first RPG shot below the Chinook, but the second made contact in what the military would later describe as a one-in-a-million shot.
The shot struck a rotor blade on the aft (rear) pylon, shearing off ten and a half feet of the blade.
The third shot flew above the falling chopper.
Within a matter of seconds, the chopper begins to spin violently out of control and then drops vertically into a dry creek bed and is engulfed in a large fireball.
There are no survivors.
The thirty brave Americans lost that night were more than just warriors.
They were husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons.
Billy Vaughn's son, Aaron Carson Vaughn, was one of them.
Over the next few months as unsettling information on the tragic incident is released to the families, Billy Vaughn becomes increasingly disturbed.
Billy discovers that US military forces are not being led to win battles, but have been sent on a fool's errand to win the hearts and minds of other nations.
| Contributor(s) | Authorbilly |
|---|---|
| With | Monica Cari |
| August 06, 2011, 2 | 20 a moperation |
| But there's a problem | The standard chopper escorts have all been directed elsewhere |
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