Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey there, folks. We got something pretty dramatic right now.

Let me just read this.

On August 6, 2011, a U.S. Army

helicopter carried seal Team 6 members into the skies of Afghanistan. The elite fighting team was

ready to exit the helicopter called Extortion 17 for its vital mission to help capture or kill Taliban

leader Kari Tahir. But the extortion 17 for its vital mission to help capture or kill Taliban leader Kari

to hear. But the extortion 17 and its personnel would never reach their destination. Instead,

30 Americans, most of them from SEAL Team 6 and one American military working dog, were

tragically killed when a Taliban-controlled rocket shot out of the sky.

There's a documentary about it called Fallen Angel Call Sign Extortion 17.

I'm glad to have Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy Jag officer, the author of 15 books as my guest,

to tell us about this.

This is a harrowing

story. It's hard for me, Don Brown, to think that this happened and that so many Americans

don't even know about it. Eric, you've nailed the first tragedy. This is the largest loss of

life of American life in the Afghan War and the largest loss of life in the history of the U.S. Navy Seals.

And the tragedy is two full. Number one, we don't know about this. I was talking to Sebastian Gorka just the other day, and he had been Deputy National Security Advisor later under President Trump and had not heard about it. This happened under the Obama administration. This shootdown occurred August the 6th, 2011, just 94 days after SEAL Team 6. Some of these guys' teammates took out Osama bin Laden and the SEAL's greatest victory. And yet their story isn't told. And the second part of the tragedy is there appears to be an inexplicable military cover-up.

This chopper hung in the air for seven minutes.

We lost contact, overdue.

Seven minutes over the landing zone, best we can tell.

We lost contact with it for 10 minutes.

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