Before BENGHAZI, There was EXTORTION 17.... August 06, 2011, 2:20
a.m.-Operation Lefty Grove is underway, a highly dangerous mission
to take out another high-level Taliban operative, three months
after the death of Osama Bin Laden. In the dark of night,
twenty-five US Special Ops Forces and a five-man flight crew on
board Extortion 17, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. Seven unidentified
Afghan Commandos are allowed to join them. Ground forces have
already been engaged in a three-hour exhaustive battle. Extortion
17's specially trained warriors drop into the Hot Landing Zone to
help their fellow warriors. But there's a problem: the standard
chopper escorts have all been directed elsewhere. Mission
directions are unclear. Worse, pre-assault fire to cover the
Chinook transporting our brave fighting men is not ordered. On that
fateful night, Extortion 17 would never touch down. Taliban
fighters fired three rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) in rapid
succession. The first RPG shot below the Chinook, but the second
made contact in what the military would later describe as a
"one-in-a-million shot." The shot struck a rotor blade on the aft
(rear) pylon, shearing off ten and a half feet of the blade. The
third shot flew above the falling chopper. Within a matter of
seconds, the chopper begins to spin violently out of control and
then drops vertically into a dry creek bed and is engulfed in a
large fireball. There are no survivors. The thirty brave Americans
lost that night were more than just warriors. They were husbands,
fathers, brothers, and sons. Billy Vaughn's son, Aaron Carson
Vaughn, was one of them. Over the next few months as unsettling
information on the tragic incident is released to the families,
Billy Vaughn becomes increasingly disturbed. Billy discovers that
US military forces are not being led to win battles, but have been
sent on a fool's errand to "win the hearts and minds" of other
nations. He is told that the US Rules of Engagement have prevented
our brave defenders from defending themselves. Adding insult to
injury, Billy learned that a Muslim Imam was invited by our own US
military leaders to "pray" over his son's dead body. As US war
heroes lay in their caskets before their last flight home, the Imam
damned America's fallen warriors as "infidels" who would burn in
hell. As US military leaders observed the ceremony at Bagram Air
Base, the Imam boasted over the deaths of US heroes with words such
as, "The companions of heaven Muslims] are the winners." Betrayed
is a heart rending account in America's history, an engaging story
of faith, patriotism, honor, duty and loss. Betrayed is not just
the biography of an American military family, it is a crucial,
true-life narrative that every American must read and understand
about their government and the danger America's military strategy
currently poses to all families. Betrayed is a book Billy Vaughn
wishes he didn't have to write. But his son is gone and there are
still unanswered questions. He needs to know if finding the truth
may prevent another father from standing in his shoes.
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