The United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group is the official name for America's most elite warriors, commonly known as the Navy Seals.

These are the best of the best, America's finest, most highly trained, well equipped and most solidly supported soldiers. They are an ultra effective combat asset capable of infiltrating and nuetralizing a threat of almost any description, recently used to kill Osama bin Laden in his villa in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Seals are used in many ways by the military, but now it seems that these prized warriors have been sold out, betrayed and murdered- albeit not directly murdered- all by their own government.

On May 3 2011, celebrating the successful raid that killed OBL, Vice President Joe Biden publicly revealed the identity of the special operations unit responsible for the raid. This reckless release of classified information by the 2^nd in command of this nation was akin to putting a bullseye on the backs of the members of SEAL Team 6. This breach of protocol regarding secrets and sensitive activities is unforgivable from our leaders. Within hours, Team members were phoning home to advise their families to delete online information. Their fear was that jihadists now had more information then ever before regarding this clandestine unit's existence.

They and their families were at risk of repraisal attacks because of a political speech by a sitting American Vice President. No one had ever heard the term “SEAL Team 6” until Biden gushed it.

 

 

 

August 6, 2011, Tangeen Valley, Afghanistan. The mission, termed Extortion 17 began as a call for help from an elite unit of Army Rangers. The flight from the FOB to get on station was less than 5 minutes. The Rangers were on a seek and destroy mission for terrorists and a specific target who was known to be in the area. They had breached a building nestled in a tight valley, and suspects were escaping out of the back of the building, known to military as “squirters”. While the Rangers were still engaging strong numbers of enemy, they couldn't pursue the squirters and called in for backup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the sky above, Apache gunships swirled, AC 130 gunships were circling and a Predator drone was onstation following the squirters. A hasty order was given to activate the assets at that forward base, and 17 members of Seal Team 6 and 21 other people flew towards a battle that had been originally begun 3 hours earlier. The preferred aircraft for this type of 'hot' insertion ,an MH-47 or MH-60 Blackhawk were unavailable,. Instead they piled aboard an 1960's era twin rotor behemoth CH-47 and went towards the battle.

 

 

 

 

 

Inexplicably, seconds before liftoff seven members of the Afghan soldiers aboard were pulled off the chopper and their places were taken by seven different Afghans, an action expressly forbidden in all forms of Air transportation: Whatever or whomever is on the manifest is who will fly. The manifest was not changed and the Chinook took off.

 

 

 

An investigation done by the US Military revealed these highly irregular and questionable facts:

• the black box from the aircraft has never been recovered, even though the area was swarmed with US forces immediately following the crash. A reported flash flood swept the box away.
• The elite Navy SEAL team was used as a reactionary force for a highly questionable reason (to chase down Taliban fighters fleeing a battle)
• 7 members of the manifest switched at takeoff, a blatant breach of protocol.
• No Apache escorts
• No Suppressive fire at the LZ
• The bodies of the slain servicemen were desecrated by an islamic imam who “damned their souls to hell” as “infidels”. The US Government  supplied videos of this atrocity to the soldier's families.
• The slain warriors were cremated before returning to the US, against their expressed wishes
• Rules of engagement stated at the time, that if fire is taken, a soldier must verify the combatant has a weapon before returning fire. As the squirters left the back of the building, the Apaches overhead and the Predator drone had the additional task of verifying these men actually had weapons on them before engaging them.

An operations officer was quoted off the record as saying,

“In this case, the CH-47 was used in a completely inappropriate manner given it's design and the result was the deaths of everyone aboard. Tier 1 personnel must be employed with careful planning. The cost and time to train them means that using them is such a haphazard manner as a reaction force in this context place critical personnel at too great a risk, especially in this concentration on such a noncritical mission”

 

 

Team members and their families think they were set up to be killed, by someone leaking information to an Afghan Government perforated by Taliban sympathizers. The Afghan National Army, National Police and Security Ministry all have operational planning and specs on all missions against Taliban targets-even the secret application of Seal Teams.  The unspoken theme seeming to be that individuals inside the Afghanistan Government were on the side of the Taliban and frequently passed on information to Taliban war planners, including the presence of an elite unit and a large number of Taliban fighters with minutes' notice the Seals were inbound.

 

 

 

 

What the hell was this high number of elite team-members doing on the same flight, anyway?

Given this information, several lawsuits are pending for the release of information, and a formal Congressional investigation, led by Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz are in progress.

 

 

As Griff says, “I cant believe Chaffetz is still alive”.

 

 

 

Some have said and I believe they're right: Forget NSA, forget Fast and Furious, forget the IRS targeting political groups, forget the worst this administration has committed, ommitted and sinned by buffoonish decision: this has reached a new low.

This has gone too far.

 

 

 

Our finest warriors; brothers and sons were treated so recklessly the unthinkable happened. And there has been no acknowledgment. And lets not kid ourselves: there will be no full disclosure on this or on the facts surrounding another egregious episode of the Obama administration's horrible handling of a fluid wartime situation: Benghazi, Lybia, 9-11-12, where among others, an American Ambassador, Chris Stevens was slain.

 

 

 

 

Post Script

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-katykarter