On a great day in American History - May 1, 2011, members of the United States' premier fighting force, Seal Team 6, killed Osama Bin Laden. He was a murdering terrorist, mostly responsible for the World Trade Center bombing. He was a coward. He hid behind his god, behind thousands of ignorant cowards, behind crooked politicians. He hid fairly well. It took us a long time to find him and bring him to justice. Battlefield justice. Now he is but a rotting corpse, and in a few years people will have all but forgotten him.
Unfortunately, due, I am sure, to some other cowards, the members of Seal Team 6 were targeted for revenge. Whether from an infiltrator, or due to some carelessness, somehow the Taliban or Al-Queda got information that Seal Team 6 was the emergency reaction force that was on call at the time. On August 6, 2011, when an Army Ranger unit was in a grave situation, Extortion 17 (call sign for the Seal unit) was sent to help them out. No one should have known, but somehow the intel was leaked and an ambush was set. Their CH-47 Helicopter was shot down and all hands were lost. Gone but never forgotten.
SOC Chris Campbell, USN
'Long Live the Brotherhood'
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