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NATO Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan, Over 20 SEAL Team 6 Members Perish

31 U.S. troops were killed when a NATO Chinook helicopter was brought down by insurgents. Over 20 of the dead were from Navy SEAL Team 6—the unit that killed Osama bin Laden.

31 U.S. troops were killed when a NATO Chinook troop transport helicopter was downed from what seems to be a rocket-propelled grenade, according to the Washington Post.

The Post, quoting a current U.S. official, stated that seven of the dead were Afghan troops and over 20 were from SEAL Team 6—the elite team that assassinated Osama bin Laden.

What exactly are we doing in Afghanistan 10 years later? We’re told that it is to prevent Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe-haven for the Taliban and by extension Al Qaeda. Is it worth the cost to our loved ones?

Some will argue that this is the price that we pay for national security. That we simply cannot let the pathos of the tragedy affect our mission simply because over 20 of our best fighters perished in the explosion.

However, it raises an interesting question: why were the best of the best being flown like sitting ducks over an area known to have insurgents? Would it not have been better to transport Seal TEAM 6 through safer environs and order them to penetrate the area?

American and Afghan officials have both been quoted as saying it is an”area of heavy insurgent activity.”

Granted, this is the Navy SEAL’s mission to drop into such areas, more often than not by helicopter, but something seems terribly wrong with the strategic planning. We have to wonder why NATO thought it advisable to put them up in the air in such a dangerous area. It reminds us of the 1994 Blackhawk crashes during the Battle of Mogadishu.

What effect will this have on the planned U.S. withdrawal? Will it cause our government to reassess the move—to entrench and up the ante instead of leave?

It’s possible that it will make our war in Afghanistan truly endless.

We should be reminded of Rudyard Kipling’s magnificent and prescient novella “The Man Who Would be King,” published in 1888, in which Westerners (British in the novella) engage in adventurism in Afghanistan and suffer the consequences of hubris, miscalculation and a lack of cultural understanding.

Not that the Taliban mind can necessarily be understood, but our alliances have not always worked out well, have they? And our hubris has led to miscalculations like the one detailed above.

Hopefully the families of the dead can find some meaning in the ongoing theater of the absurd that is Afghanistan.

  1. August 06, 2011 at 6:12 pm, Jpmuggs said:

    One of the implications of this attack on our SEALS is we should layer the entire area with Daisy Cutters to ensure the perps never live to see another day.  Retribution is the word of the day.

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  2. August 06, 2011 at 6:14 pm, vincent said:

    Why put all the best of the best In danger

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    • August 07, 2011 at 4:12 am, Sam said:

        It amazes me how as soon as something happens that the average American does not understand the first that that enters their mind is Conspiracy Theory! Our government is out to get us.
      Unintelligent comments like, ” Someone narced on them”, really!? These aren`t your local police going for a petty drug bust. 
        Or all the stupid comments saying these guys were set up by the US Gov.,  As nut up or shut up stated earlier, the pilots fly the bird at their own discretion they are not told how or exactly where to fly, you gotta drop altitude to land right?
      Operators like these guys are not just given the fricken job blindly, you know exactly what your getting into, they make damn well sure of it through the entire training process. 

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      • August 07, 2011 at 9:02 am, Kent Perry said:

        What amazes me is any fool who would believe this Governments Bullshit right off the cuff without question when The Gulf Of Tonkin was a Conspiracy to get us into the war in Vietnam, JFK, RFK, WATERGATE, Chinagate, Climategate, All conspiracy’s in fact MOST of the biggest Conspiracy theories of all time turned out to be true conspiracies with Governmental involvement.

        That’s right Hoss,,  conspiracy by our own Government. 

        The Jessica Lynch rescue and the Movie they made after, ALL BULLSHIT.  

        The day they liberated Baghdad was staged.

        Pat Tillman’s Death, they said he went out in-front to take on the enemy and died trying to save a comrade by jumping in-front of enemy fire.  One of many legends Army Generals cooked up to coverup the Murder of this beloved patriot and NFL football player. 

        WACO,

        Ruby Ridge,

        The ATF FAST and Furious Gun Runner conspiracy now being investigate while Eric Holder Obstructs Justice and lies his ass off.

        Last but certainly not least, The fact there remains in the white house a usurper who is not eligible for the office. 

        Why? because he is not a Natural Born Citizen and THAT is why he has, for the third time now, furnished us with another forgery another lie and another conspiracy by those in Law enforcement tasked with the responsibility to hold the scumbag impostor in Chief, accountable. 

        I mean THIS government has admitted spraying chemicals on us, infecting blacks with syphilis in Tuskegee , running a drug trade, setting up puppet Governments, giving our soldiers LSD without them knowing, sending them into agent Orange saturated landscapes knowing full well, the men that came within smelling distance of that crap, would DIE from the cancers it created in them.   Don’t be such an idiot dude, the fact is, THE ODDS are better that it WAS our government that did it for the very same reasons YOU claim make it unlikely.

        These were men who had just recently killed a legend and Islamic hero and Icon across the world stage.  They pack them all in a chopper that has no defense the chopper was over capacity and against UCMJ Nav Regs Nav SUP pers.  So you want us to believe that these highly trained elite fighting men,  decided to get on a chopper of all things,  ya know something they could load up with as many as they could,. making it slower to get off the ground.  I served 6 years carrier task force 6th fleet and their was no such thing as a Team 6 Five was the best and that was all their would ever be. 

        If you made it to five, you were the best.  Many of us think SEAL TEAM six is a fabricated crap story but now that they are all dead just after 6 of them were about to blow the whistle the Osama Bin Laden death was all BULLSHIT,, Guess we’ll never know. 

        I can tell you this however,  THE VERY FIRST THOUGHT SHOULD BE WHAT PART DID WE PLAY IF ANY because the likely hood of that is far greater than the silly Naive and stupid notion, our Government is the good guy.. NO OUR GOVERNMENT IS OUR ADVERSARY and if you haven’t figured that out yet, then you are the most ignorant liberal on the planet.

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        • August 07, 2011 at 5:11 pm, Sam said:

          Do not spout off and try and prove you know something about a career field you were never a part of just because as you say, you may have been an enabler for.  Not the place for that.  I am currently active duty and am not disputing the fact that our gov./military however you want to label it, has been covering up incidents, getting rid of people since their inception. I know this first hand.  It`s their way of saving face with the American people, keeping that trust ( For the most part) and control.  War is war, more times than not there are accidents whether it be by our own hand or the POS`s we are currently fighting.  As this incident very well may be our gov covering their asses, we will never know.  My main point is this isnt hollywood, theres not a narc and a conspiracy around every corner.

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          • August 11, 2011 at 7:19 am, Kent Perry said:

            Sam , you want to show me the career field I am spouting off on that I was never a part of.  Show me the quote, Hoss.  Then after that, would you either PROVE there is not a Narc or Conspiracy around every corner or else Ill have to assume you actually believe that yourself,  You’re tilting at windmills dude, NOT even the most PARANOID Conspiracy Theorist thinks that.   When you have a Government that lies and covers up everything they do, then the people are left to the only alternative to reconcile things that don’t add up. 

            Now if YOU don’t like it

            TOO FUCKIN BAD!

  3. August 06, 2011 at 6:20 pm, Anonymous said:

    Friend, the theater of the absurd is in Washington, not Afghanistan – been there for 10 years. What theater have you been sitting in?

    I thought Muggs was that monkey on TV. Now he’s writing letters? Even chimps are brighter than that comment.

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  4. August 06, 2011 at 6:20 pm, SpfldJimbo said:

    R.I.P.  for all  31, and the others who have died, and will die in these hell-holes around the world.

    Sometimes… one wonders if the threats to our country are more from within (The White House, and Congress), and through our porous borders (White House policy) than from these god forsaken lands around the globe.

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    • August 06, 2011 at 9:17 pm, Cchristie996 said:

      Sometimes… one wonders?  You would have to live in a cave to not realize this country is being destroyed from within. What will it take to wake people up? This government is limiting our food supply, destroying our currency while spending us into oblivion, and attempting to confiscate our arms to we can no longer defend ourselves if we should decide we don’t like what they’re doing and decide we want our constitutional rights back.  Educate yourselves, peeples! Just start by Googling ‘Obama’s Executive Orders’, and check out the political make-up of the new Super-CONgress. And PLEASE don’t stop there. Your children deserve better!!

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  5. August 06, 2011 at 6:21 pm, Guest CS said:

    Being in the air isn’t the problem. Being low enough for an RPG to bring them down is.. Their leaders need to use some common sense or ride with them! As far as the “war”,it’s been 20 years that we have bled for that area, if the people there won’t fight for their freedom, they’ll never have any. We found that out in Vietnam.. Bring them home to defend OUR borders not someone elses.

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  6. August 06, 2011 at 6:21 pm, Wesleep4ever145 said:

    This statement kinda heats up myself as a member of the navy to say that 20 lives is “the price we pay” is absolute blasfamy. It has been 10 years get the rest of our troops out, and lets end this, at this point, senseless conflict

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  7. August 06, 2011 at 6:23 pm, leo said:

    Really?  Just a coincidence?  Any bets that OBL shows up ALIVE?

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  8. August 06, 2011 at 6:23 pm, Scott Worman said:

    I think the media is partially to blame. Nobody needed to know that seal team 6 was responsible for Osama bin Laden’s death. Line of the things that makes the seals so effective is their ability to operate with out anyone knowing they were there or if they did so they were.

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  9. August 06, 2011 at 6:33 pm, Jweb65 said:

    Sounds like inside job it was a poor plan . These people don’t want us there if they want to live like animals let them.But stay over there we don’t want you here.And the news media tells to much they ought not to.they would risk their mother for story.

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  10. August 06, 2011 at 6:34 pm, arpp said:

    somethings i guess we’ll just never full understand. probably faked deaths or something so that no one goes looking for them? not sure but accidents like this don’t just happen

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  11. August 06, 2011 at 6:39 pm, JHONNY_WEB65 said:

    Bring the troops home and tell those ass holes to stay away from the US or we will blow them off the face of the earth.POTPIE GOING BASTARDS.

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    • August 06, 2011 at 9:21 pm, Cchristie996 said:

      And just who will blow them away?  We now have 18-wheelers from Mexico crossing our border every day and no one does a thing. Ah, I forgot – some folks in this country need those illegal alien votes, don’t they?

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  12. August 06, 2011 at 6:39 pm, JHONNY_WEB65 said:

    Bring the troops home and tell those ass holes to stay away from the US or we will blow them off the face of the earth.POTPIE GOING BASTARDS.

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  13. August 06, 2011 at 6:46 pm, Kevinmkj said:

    The facts of war. Good men die. This is nothing new. Read the book, ”Sole Surviver”.

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    • August 06, 2011 at 9:25 pm, Cchristie996 said:

      Well, I hope you’re willing to die when the war is here at home. YOU need to read Matthew Bracken’s trilogy, and don’t stop until you get to the last few chapters of the last book. Then you might not be so flip about those good men dying.

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  14. August 06, 2011 at 6:51 pm, Cpwbb said:

    I think part of the proplem was the news media wants the story so bad they risk anybody life to get it.No one should have know what team killed bin laden and this afgan. leader is a crook.Come home

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  15. August 06, 2011 at 6:51 pm, Cpwbb said:

    I think part of the proplem was the news media wants the story so bad they risk anybody life to get it.No one should have know what team killed bin laden and this afgan. leader is a crook.Come home

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  16. August 06, 2011 at 7:32 pm, Boogie23 said:

    an odd coincidence that a helicopter gets struck and it just so happens to be the “seals” that snuffed osama??? 

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  17. August 06, 2011 at 7:32 pm, Boogie23 said:

    an odd coincidence that a helicopter gets struck and it just so happens to be the “seals” that snuffed osama??? 

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    • August 07, 2011 at 2:23 pm, John said:

      I absolutely agree. It was the first thought I had when I read the article.

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  18. August 06, 2011 at 7:56 pm, Dinacrowell said:

    so sad

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  19. August 06, 2011 at 8:03 pm, Sick and tired said:

    Our government tying up loose ends.

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    • August 07, 2011 at 2:25 pm, John Monto said:

      Sounds about right.

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    • August 08, 2011 at 5:05 am, NWODB.COM said:

      I don’t think so sources I have read the gov says no one on OBL hit team was on board.

      “No member of the Bin Laden raid team was among the dead, said a Pentagon
      official briefed on the casualties who was not authorized to speak
      publicly while families still were being notified. But he said 22 of the
      30 were Navy SEALs, and a significant number were members of SEAL Team
      6, the unit that conducted the Bin Laden raid and is made up of just a
      few hundred of some of the best-trained fighters in the U.S. military.”

      http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-chopper-20110807,0,1729289.story

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  20. August 06, 2011 at 8:03 pm, mr1time said:

     and no body really know’s where the seal teams are, lol goes to show you how fucked up our government is,totally a loss, they’re really secretive, I can so see obl coming out of the wood work again, would love to see the look and the reaction our shady president would show

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  21. August 06, 2011 at 8:05 pm, 4th Branch aka The Media said:

    As George Carlin would say…It’s all bull**** folks… and it’s bad for ya.

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  22. August 06, 2011 at 8:07 pm, Bringampain said:

    Remember ppl those poor souls that paid just paid the price knew the cost and exepted the risks and I would bear to say would load up and do it again men of that caliber and bravery don’t think they act. Fair winds and following seas my brothers….

    Former navy seal team 2

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    • August 06, 2011 at 11:38 pm, Shawn said:

      Fair winds and following seas SEAls.
      Your sacrifice is much appreciated.
      Honored, rest in peace dear brothers.

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  23. August 06, 2011 at 8:35 pm, Trey said:

    It’s a conspiracy the govenment did it!

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    • August 06, 2011 at 8:48 pm, haha said:

      is it now?

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  24. August 06, 2011 at 8:36 pm, Seorca07-dancing said:

    un freaking unbelievable, I agree, wtf were they all doing in the same basket!

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  25. August 06, 2011 at 9:02 pm, Anthony10 said:

    Leo you are a dipshit. OBL is dead, the comments people make really show how much pride peiple have in their country, its a privlige to live in a country where we dont hhave to worry about things that other countries have to worry about. All the fucks like you need to count your blessings.

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    • August 06, 2011 at 9:33 pm, Cchristie996 said:

      Anthony, if you think you don’t have to worry about the things other countries have to worry about, you need to look in the mirror the next time you call someone stupid. Those blessings you’re counting are disappearing to the tune of several every day and it will soon be too late to do anything about it because we have a community organizer who is so frustrated with the Constitution and Congress that he just thumbs his nose at both (and us) and does what pleases him and his backers.

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    • August 06, 2011 at 9:53 pm, Whatever said:

      The mind is like a parachute and yours is closed anthony10. There is a reason we need to have free speech. So the govt doesnt designate what we are supposed to believe in. The ministry of truth isnt in total control yet. Wake up and open your eyes. Almost every person here has pride in their country and its people. But that doesn’t mean you have to support the imperialist corporate ran war machine govt that is in control right now…who appears to be in control…The people of this country must WAKE UP before its too late

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    • August 07, 2011 at 2:31 am, Kent Perry said:

      Yeah I know he’s been dead for about 11 years.  I know their was no proof I saw he was killed by Obama and I also know Obama is the biggest liar on the planet.  He is a Cancer and an enemy to our Country a threat to our Nation and he needs to be REMOVED.  I’d have been happier if SEAL Team Six capped Obama that day.  Rather than make up some lie to distract us from yet a THIRD forged Document from the DOH Hawaii. 

      OBAMA MUST BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE!

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  26. August 06, 2011 at 9:11 pm, Takeonemore said:

    Well this is just another conspiracy to go with another war that is draining our human and financial resources and I believe that our distinguished government officials could really care less. So much for change barrack bush.

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  27. August 06, 2011 at 9:14 pm, Vito_grippo700 said:

    Freedom isn’t free

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    • August 06, 2011 at 9:56 pm, Whatever said:

      Neither is slavery

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  28. August 06, 2011 at 9:17 pm, Mike G. Murphy said:

    How much you want to bet, some S.O.B. narced out the Seals being on that helicopter? We have to get out of that Heroin death quagmire WE call war. Also, need to give karzi a 1 trillion usd net 30 invoice.

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  29. August 06, 2011 at 10:11 pm, Anca Diaconu D said:

    http://adf.ly/2B261   pentagon’s secret

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  30. August 06, 2011 at 10:11 pm, Anca Diaconu D said:

    http://adf.ly/2B261   pentagon’s secret

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  31. August 06, 2011 at 10:25 pm, Nut up or Shut up said:

    LOL   lowanuff for an RPG top hit do  u know the range on them fucking long, and how are u gona land whith out geting close to the ground. it was a lucky shot and  shity for the people on board and there familys. But realy   u say blame the  comdand for this thats so dumb its not like the comand says hay u go and fly just like this. The comand says go here and the piolts have the choice on how they fly and if they go for landings how high or low they think they need to go or if they go at all. Comands to fly some were come with guidelines not step buy step  instructions. and to the rest of u guys that come up with some of the crazy shit u put up here realy chill and bit and under stand shit happens wethere we like it or not, and u makeing up some crazy stuff cause your nutts and think the sky is falling dosent help anyone. 
     

    From a guy thats in the sandbox now.

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  32. August 06, 2011 at 11:03 pm, anonymous said:

    this has cover-up written all over it

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  33. August 06, 2011 at 11:10 pm, Philip Curtis said:

    They chose to serve they knew the price to keep all of us save and out of harms way ask any veterans they were proud to severe 

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  34. August 06, 2011 at 11:44 pm, Paul Arsenault said:

    Dear author DJ Pangburn,

    The events in Mogadishu you are referring to (Black Hawk Down) happened in 1993, not 1994. Check your facts next time.

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  35. August 07, 2011 at 12:37 am, Rotorvator1 said:

    Why does it say over 20 in the head line and 31 in the story? Stupid Media. Get your bs in check. You are the main reason the public is mis informed.

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  36. August 07, 2011 at 12:57 am, Lol said:

    They can’t make their inside jobs more obvious could they?

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  37. August 07, 2011 at 3:00 am, Furchen Iltis said:

    The same Group was shot down which supposedly killed bin laden and its
    the biggest defeat in this war so far. thats too much of a coincidence

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  38. August 07, 2011 at 3:14 am, Clubtan said:

    @DJ Pangburn – If you can’t stand behind the Navy SEALs, by all means, stand in front of them.

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  39. August 07, 2011 at 3:50 am, adnanakbar said:

    America killed them 20 navy seals who killed Osama purposly and it was planned by panatagone like 9/11 conspiracy. why all 20 navy seals sitting in the same helicopter as there were two more helicopters on the same place. What are the transport helicopter were doing in such a dangerous place and there was no apache or gunship helicopter at the time of incident.
    America can killed anybody for its interest 

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  40. August 07, 2011 at 4:16 am, Mills4_t said:

    The “insurgents” obviously had intel that the chopper had navy team 6 they have insiders working for our gov

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  41. August 07, 2011 at 4:56 am, Hellfireveteran said:

    Someone in our government is covering their ass theres no way it was an RPG. Our chinooks are fucking strong. I smell foul play in the air

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  42. August 07, 2011 at 5:13 am, HellfireVeteran said:

    I mean we have the best armor being put on our blackhawks and chinooks so that they can withstand RPG fire. I know as I am an engineer for one of the warehouses in Kentucky that fits the armor plating to the helo frames. And to everyones comment that the pilots fly how they like. our pilots arent that stupid to fly low until they get to the LZ. From a man that comes from a military background. I think our government is behind it. R.I.P Seal Team 6. and God help everyone below who doesnt use the noodle in their head. Our rights, Money, and Food and overall Freedom are being taken away. You all need to wake up and smell the Jam on the wall, our government cant be trusted

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  43. August 07, 2011 at 6:55 am, anon said:

    Some of you guys are schitzo. Ya our country is failing but its because of corruption and evil. The people will not give up their guns. Texas has the legal right to cede from the US, and they would immediatley if obama tried to take our guns. Dont be stupid, the people are powerful, alot more than you think. Obama doesn’t want to disarm us because of some retarded conspiracy. He doesn’t chill with the fellas a the bohemian grove. He wants to disarm us because of the political stance that such an act takes, thereby strengthening his reputation with democrats. Hes not planning on takin the govt over THAT IS RETARDED and IMPOSSIBLE. I have read these conspiracy theories and they are about as crazy as the moon landing and sasquatch theories (I personally believe in 9/11 conspiracys and UFO ones myself so I am known to believe SOME theories.) The constitution simply doesn’t let that happen, now the super senate. That has already happened buddy, however, 80% of us are unhappy with the senate. They are going to need to KISS OUR ASS in order to get in good graces with the people again, not disarm us and take over by force. Whats the motive? To be evil? No sense at all. Most of our government just wants it to stay the way it is, corruption and all. These things DO need to end, but this is NOT the place to discuss this any further. 

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    • August 07, 2011 at 9:18 am, Kent Perry said:

      Jeez dude, you sound like all those idiots that used to say the same thing about the Germans defending all the Moderate Nazi’s.  No one gives a rats ass what Obama thinks he can or can’t do, he is just a patsy and probably won’t be alive this time next year.  Those you say are not real all those crazy NWO people,  yeah ya know the same ones that have been telling everyone all the shit that keeps happening 6-8 months before it does and being right 100% of the time. The “Super Senate’ HA HA HA Dude it is what it is,. the conduit between the UN and the now in the dark Congress and Senate thanks to people who are so stupid, that if you lit a match to close to their nose while they sneezed, the brain fart like the post you made who blow us all to kingdom come.   Get a Clue jack ass, This Government doesn’t give a rats ass about you or me and what they are doing has NOTHING to do with the constitution and everything  to do with killing it. 

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  44. August 07, 2011 at 2:23 pm, Speikersdlth said:

    We Americans, as a nation, will never agree upon the place, time, or reason to go to war. We elect our officials and legislators to high offices to make those decisions for us, ostensibly in our best interest. When our volunteer military members are sent to fight, the mode of transportation is dictated by the requirements of the mission. We, as Sunday morning quarterbacks, can comfortable and safely sit in our recliners and speculate about how and why our most talented warriors were sent to their deaths. War is not a game to be viewed from the safety of a civilian living room or office water-cooler. Those highly trained warriors and aircrews knew the value of their talents as elite fighting men. They train to fight and win quickly and decisively. Unfortunately, they understand that they can die just as quickly. Do not misunderstand my comment. I speak from experience. Their training takes years of dedication and persistence. Their loss cannot be understated. They have families and friends just like the rest of us. I feel their loss as I reflect upon my own losses during 22 years of service to our great nation. Grieve for them. Mourn for them. Above all, remember them for who they were; not why they were in an aircraft over hostile territory. Respect their commitment. It was, ultimately, their chosen profession.   

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  45. August 07, 2011 at 10:38 pm, Lightscout2369 said:

    Wow, I can’t believe they are making a push there again, when I was in that valley in 2009 we beat the crap out of the taliban.

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  46. August 08, 2011 at 2:48 am, ROGER VAN LOAN said:

    UNBELIEVEABLE!  I AM SUPRISED VETERNS ARE ACTUALLY TALKING THIS WAY ABOUT  OUR BROTHERS WHO GAVE UP THEIR FREEDOM AND LIVES AS WILLINGLY AS SOME OF THE REST OF US WERE WHEN SOME HERE AT HOME WERE UNWILLING TO STAND BEHIND US AND OUR LOVED ONES WHEN WE WERE IN SUCH AN UNHOLY PLACE AS VIETNAM.  THERE IS STILL SOME OF IT THAT ISN’T KNOWN OR ADMITTED TO,  BUT, WHEN ASKED TO DO OUR JOB, WE DID IT NOT KNOWING WHAT WE WOULD FACE 40 TO 50 YRS. DOWN THE ROAD.  OUR BROTHERS WENT ON, THO’ MANY DROPPED AROUND US, OR BROUGHT HOME THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR WITH US.WHY DID WE HAVE TO DO IT?  WHAT WAS THE RESULT?  I WAS WEARING THE UNIFORM OF MY COUNTRY, AND TOOK AN OATH TO HELP DEFEND IT WITH OUT KNOWING ALL THE REASONS WHY.  THOSE BOYS WERE DOING THE SAME THING.  WE’D DO IT AGAIN AND SO WOULD THEY, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEIR CHANCES.  GOD BLESS AND COMFORT THEIR FAMILIES.

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  47. August 08, 2011 at 1:16 pm, Lshultz7 said:

    I agree with Scott.  After bin Laden’s death the U.S. should have reported that he was given up by key members of his own group and infighting lead to his death – thus sowing seeds of distrust from within. But the idiots running this so-called war paraded Seal Team 6 around around who now have targts on their chest. And what military genious, who should be fired, put all of those Seals on one slow lumbering chopper? The Taliban may have pulled the trigger but NATO provided the target.  

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  48. August 11, 2011 at 12:24 am, Ubiquitous said:

    TO answer your question: “why were the best of the best being flown like sitting ducks over an area known to have insurgents?” – Because some times there aren’t many ways in to those valleys in Afghanistan. Not to mention that is the quickest ways of getting troops on the ground. To top it off, the government seems to have an issue with allowing our special operations teams to operate in their special capacities… Go figure. I ask you, on what authority you have to say the best way to fly in to a combat situation? 

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  49. August 12, 2011 at 7:46 pm, sf said:

    No Black Hawk, no Apache, just the big, slow Chinook.  Someone’s head should roll.
    This has happened before earlier in the war.  What are our generals thinking?  They should be called out for stupidity.  How the hell did they think a Chinook going into a hostile environment could survive any kind of attack.  I’m embarrassed by our
    ignorance in war.

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  50. January 21, 2012 at 8:51 am, Truth said:

    Osama propably died form kidneys almost 10 years ago. Seal team didnt kill him in action. It was fake so they had to die in this helicopetr. No witnes no truth. They never show you the body of Osama killed like they showe Sadam Husein and Gadafi.

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  51. January 21, 2012 at 8:51 am, Truth said:

    Osama propably died form kidneys almost 10 years ago. Seal team didnt kill him in action. It was fake so they had to die in this helicopetr. No witnes no truth. They never show you the body of Osama killed like they showe Sadam Husein and Gadafi.

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  52. May 11, 2012 at 3:24 am, Rose Kane-Matthews said:

    here is the article.

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  53. October 27, 2012 at 6:02 am, Dee Sutton Velez said:

    Interesting team six wow seriously

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  54. February 12, 2013 at 3:50 pm, Deborah Barclay said:

    The seals killed were from the same Unit as the team that Killed Osama bin Laden but there are conflicting reports as to how many or if ANY from the Osama bin Laden mission were killed in this attack.

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