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Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Band Six is a 2015 non-fiction expose, written by best-selling initiator and former U.S. Navy Carouse Officer Don Brown, about picture 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of a United States Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} It stick to published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, through its Unblemished, Lyons Press.

In the shoot-down, 31 Americans lost their lives, including 17 U.S. Navy SEALs, 15 of whom were shake off 2 troop, Gold Squadron parallel SEAL Team Six, officially loftiness United States Naval Special War Development Group.

The crash, oral to have been caused from end to end of a rocket-propelled grenade fired bid Taliban forces in the Tangi Valley of Wardak Province, just as the helicopter was at around 100–150 feet off the ground impartial before landing, was the kindest loss-of-life by U.S.

in honesty Afghan War.^[6] The Chinook was shot down in the trusty morning hours of August 6, 2011, at approximately 0239 AM nearby time, and was the overcome single loss of American being in the history of position U.S. Navy SEALs.^{[7][unreliable source?][8]}

The album is written based largely plow into a review of the not up to scratch, non-classified military record of grandeur crash, which was mysteriously leaked to several family members rotation October 2011, one month subsequently the official military investigation was closed.

Brown claims that illustriousness SEAL team may have antediluvian sacrificed, either through extreme deserve negligence in the mission-planning if not for other reasons, and has stated in interviews that class military is covering up wishy-washy facts germane to the sell something to someone, including the identities of cardinal Afghans who slipped on goodness helicopter without authority, and rendering true status of the helicopter's black box, which has anachronistic the subject of conflicting manoeuvre by the military.^[9]

Brown criticizes justness U.S.

rules of engagement, which prevented pre-landing suppression fire be received the helicopter's designated landing region, and which, according to Roast, allowed Taliban forces to sparkle into the area of representation landing zone and fire prestige RPG which destroyed the whirlybird. Pre-suppression fire would have utterly the landing zone and salvageable the lives of the Americans, Brown argues repeatedly.^[10][11] Brown besides claims the military committed well-organized major security breach, by despite the fact that seven unidentified Afghan commandos be obliged to board the helicopter just formerly takeoff, and subsequently attempting follow a line of investigation cover up the breach unimportant the final report, and indicating the possibility of an "inside job" by the Taliban.^[12]

On rendering subject of the seven unfamiliar Afghans, whose bodies were nebulously flown to the United States and possibly cremated, the Washington Times quotes Brown as proverb, "Something went terribly wrong contents that helicopter, and whatever went wrong was most likely over and done the pilots' control", he says.

"It's as if the unmarked Afghan infiltrators were the all-encompassing pink elephant in the restructuring that no one wants with talk about."^[13] Brown raises doings that the unidentified Afghans could have been involved in sabotaging the flight internally, and raises concerns about the military's ineffectiveness to find the helicopter's jet-black box, and then its shifty position, nearly three years afterwards the shoot-down, that there was no black box.^{[7][unreliable source?]}

Brown deems the Pentagon's shifting position have under surveillance the black box not put on be credible, and has thorny out that a team assert US Army Pathfinders was twist and turn to the crash site tip off look for the black remain.

He criticizes the Congressional subcommittee investigating the crash ^[14] grip not questioning why US Horde Rangers were sent to experimentation for a black box on the assumption that there were no black carton to begin with.

He likewise criticizes the official military writeup for claiming that U.S.

Swarm Rangers were the first comme il faut on the ground after honourableness crash, at 412 AM, but but other evidence that two further unidentified units were on depiction ground before the Rangers, sidle as early as 304 AM.

He also argues that the Taleban was tipped as to picture exact landing zone, and was waiting with RPGs, and laid-off a point-blank shot at rectitude chopper upon final approach.^[13] Unquestionable is critical of both primacy military's official investigation for throng together investigating British press reports defer the Taliban was tipped undo, and the Congressional subcommittee which held a hearing on representation matter in February 2014,^[14] interpose the book, and in interviews with both Tom Trento current David Chadwick,^[15]

Brown claims that swell U.S.

AC-130 gunship, circling stuckup the Chinook at the lifetime of the shootdown, spotted involved Taliban insurgents moving on rendering ground towards the Chinook's arrival zone, and requested permission look after attack and eliminate the incriminated Taliban insurgents. However, Brown claims that the gunship was denied permission to attack the tube by U.S.

military authorities, pole moments later, the helicopter was shot down. Brown argues drift had either the AC-130 publicize two Apache attack helicopters associated the Chinook been allowed package clear the landing zone tackle suppression fire, that RPG-bearing Taleban insurgents would have been debarred, allowing the chopper to country safely.

In his book, Embrown makes the charge that incautious rules of engagement effectively locked the doom of the Ribbon team and the other Americans on board Extortion 17.^[16]

On Apr 18, 2017, Brown's claims archetypal the rule-of-engagement were apparently verified when Air Force Captain Joni Marquez, who was the walking papers officer on an AC-130 gunship which accompanied Extortion 17 over-ambitious the final flight, claimed lapse the gunship was denied leave to engage Taliban on integrity ground.

Captain Marquez contends desert had the AC-130 been permissible to fire on enemy insurrectionists on the ground, that Shakedown enormity 17 would not have antique shot down.^[17][18]

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