>On this day 11 years ago, A group of America heroes were massacred when their chariot of justice were shot down in Afghanistan. May they souls rest in the bosom of God's and hands of Jesus Christ
But still. What happened? No way a bunch of ragtag Afghan savages managed to shoot down a heavily armed, armoured Chinook and operated by American Elite's Special Operations Unit
Not to mentioned that all of the operators were actually involved in operation Geronimo and probably the one who responsible of executing Osama.
Was is a revenge mission by Al-Qaeda terrorists? Or cover up by CIA since Osama are actually a CIA asset?
>Revenge by AL Queda?
Kinda. ANA translater leaked the QRF plan to AL Queda and there was enough of a transit time for them to set up an ambush. They would have done that anyway, so it's not like it was an in depth revenge plan they just took advantage of an opportunity.
Iirc the ODA that they were coming to bail out didn't have any casualties throughout the whole cluster frick, that was the only weird part of the story to me.
Well sheeeit, at least it wasn't another osprey.
"No way a bunch of ragtag Afghan savages managed to shoot down a heavily armed, armoured Chinook and operated by American Elite's Special Operations Unit"
Yeah anon, because the SOF in the bird really impact shit outside the bird in flight. Couldn't possibly be that sometimes shit happens in a warzone, to include low flying aviation getting rekt.
Ch-47s are neither heavily armed, nor armored
You should tell OP that.
Listen I don't want to give those towel-head-camel-frickers too much credit, but if you sling RPGs at helicopters for 20 years, eventually you are going to hit one. SOF missions are inherently high-risk, that's why we use SOF in the first place.
The ambush was breddy good, not just dumb luck
I feel sorriest for the dog being forced into that situation
same unironically
Why does every soldier have a strong ass jaw?
I never saw a soldier with negative jaws
I was wondering the same thing when looking at OP's image.
warrior genes
that's why every person that says ''i would have served, but'' is a chinless subhuman
> zog
Get help heeb
who are you quoting?
A lot of SOCOM guys juice and that can affect facial morphology.
>chinooks fully loaded have to fly below the ridgelines
>taliban prep an ambush from the top of the ridgeline
>volley fire 3-? RPGs at helo when it comes by
No grand plan, no stingers, just a bad roll of the dice
no pity for invaders
>heavily armed, armoured Chinook
> Chinook
It's a Chinook.
It _wants_ to come apart. All it takes is a nudge with some 12.7 or a lucky hit with a RPG.
The mission to kill bin laden was operation Neptune’s spear, Geronimo. Geronimo was the code name for bin laden. Neptune’s spear was conducted by red squadron of DEVGRU.
Extortion 17 involved gold squadron. Yep different groups from DEVGRU.
I only feel sad for the doggo tbh
All the others were working in a high risk profession here dear his an everyday part of life.