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Navy seals killed some seal team 6 chinook helicopter. I ask everyone to say a prayer for the united states navy seal team and their families. Army chinook helicopter, call sign extortion 17, entered the western opening of afghanistans restive tangi valley, flying alone. The conspiracy rumors started pretty much immediately. Army ch47d chinook helicopter approached a landing zone in afghanistan 40 miles. Sorry, i just wanted to be the 1st guy who came up with it. None of the operators killed in the afghan helicopter crash had been. Those killed in the crash include 22 sailors 17 of them navy. Most americans probably heard about the helicopter crash with seal team 6 on board.
Bin laden is actually alive and working out of moscow. The shootdown of seal team six is a 2015 nonfiction expose, written by bestselling author and former u. Families suspect seal team 6 crash was inside job on worst day in. Ch47d chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign extortion 17 pronounced oneseven was shot down while transporting an immediate reaction force attempting to reinforce a joint special operations command unit of the 75th ranger regiment in the tangi valley in maidan wardak province, southwest of kabul, afghanistan. Amazon best history book of the month september 2017.
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