Extortion 17 In Memory To Fallen Teammates DEVGRU SEAL Team 6 Gold Squadron Gold Plated Navy Challenge Coin International/Foreign Understand the World

Understand the World

5 1/2 inch painted leather WWII Army Air Corps patch

possibly with ties to the Afghan Taliban (who claimed responsibility via a spokesman

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Extortion 17 In Memory To Fallen Teammates DEVGRU SEAL Team 6 Gold Squadron Gold Plated Navy Challenge Coin International/Foreign Understand the World2 x 1 1 4 inch Challenge Coin. Gold plated version. Copy of letter which accompanied the coin is shown. On 5 August 2011, a U. S. CH 47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick 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,