As
many questions remain unanswered, such as why the helicopter’s black
box was never recovered, the families couldn’t help but believe that the
attack was carefully planned and not just a result of a random “lucky
shot” as what U.S. military officials had been telling them
Clark Kent (Hang the Bankers)
The August 6, 2011 Chinook shootdown
in eastern Afghanistan is considered the worst loss of U.S. military
life in the war-torn country since the Operation Red Wings in 2005. The
crash killed all 38 people on board– twenty-five Navy SEALs, five U.S.
Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos,
one Afghan interpreter, and a U.S. military dog. For the families of the
fallen special operations personnel, all they want is for Congress to
investigate the tragic incident; but why is it so hard to make that
happen?
On Thursday, three families of the Navy SEALs killed in the attack took their case to the public via a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The families felt their sons were purposely targeted by the Taliban
after the Obama administration confirmed that it was the Navy SEALs Team
6 who killed Osama bin Laden three months earlier. WND
reported that the families also questioned the sudden replacement of
seven Afghan commandos on board the helicopter just before take-off. As
it turned out, the seven Afghan commandos killed in the helicopter
shootdown were not the seven listed in the flight manifest. To this day,
none of them know who those dead Afghans were.
Bill Vaughn, father of killed Navy SEAL Aaron Vaugh, said the SEALs
were ferried by a Vietnam-era Chinook helicopter rather than their
customary state-of-the-art special forces choppers, and the Taliban must
have seen that as the perfect opportunity to target the troops.
The U.S. fighters were also reminded before landing not to clear the
area of potential enemies with suppressing fire because there might be
civilians in the areas, the article noted.
As many questions remain unanswered, such as why the helicopter’s
black box was never recovered, the families couldn’t help but believe
that the attack was carefully planned and not just a result of a random
“lucky shot” as what U.S. military officials had been telling them.
Source: http://blog.usnavyseals.com/2013/05/seal-team-6-families-believe-the-2011-chinook-shootdown-in-afghanistan-was-planned.html