Chief Kevin Houston KIA Extortion 17 Afghanistan DEVGRU SEAL Team 6 Gold Squadron Navy Challenge Coin Air Force Special Ops concurrently redesignated as the 3rd

concurrently redesignated as the 3rd Battalion

Detachment A was involved in some of the most sensitive operations of the Cold War

Bravo Platoon

5th SFG[47] inserted by helo on 23 October into Kunduz to support General Burilla Kahn

the detachment's last commander

Chief Kevin Houston KIA Extortion 17 Afghanistan DEVGRU SEAL Team 6 Gold Squadron Navy Challenge Coin Air Force Special Ops concurrently redesignated as the 3rdThis REMEMBRANCE coin is 2 inches in diameter. 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, Afghanistan.[1][2][3][4] The resulting crash killed all 38 people