31 Special Operations Forces troops killed in Afghanistan

That's what I'm reading as well and I thought the same thing. If the media does have their facts straight, why 25 ST6/DEVGRU (whoever they are now) guys on one bird?
Hearing shit like this makes me kick myself for quitting...
What an awful way for a group of true warriors (everyone involved) to go out.
Fair winds and following seas to all who were lost.
 
Latest press release info:

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Nearly two dozen U.S. special forces killed early Saturday in Afghanistan were on a mission to rescue another team of military personnel pinned down by insurgents, a U.S. military official told CNN.

The helicopter that went down in eastern Afghanistan carried 31 Americans, including 22 Navy SEALs, who were part of a "quick reaction force" sent in to pick up others engaged in a fierce firefight, the official said.

In the single deadliest incident since the start of the decade-long Afghan war, the Army Chinook carrying a team of U.S. special forces and U.S. and Afghan soldiers went down in Wardak province.

Insurgents are believed to have shot down the helicopter, a military official said.

RIP
 
Reminds me a bit of the incident involving the QRF for Luttrell and his team.

RIP to all on board.
 
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