In this episode, we retrace the final hours of Extortion 17, the CH-47 Chinook flight that carried an elite quick reaction force into Afghanistan’s Tangi Valley on August 6, 2011. After Army Rangers ...

Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL, was one of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade took out a U.S. Chinook helicopter. He was mourned at a service in Rockford, Iowa, ...

Battle Stories” and “In Waves and Wars” explore veterans’ experiences from radically different points of view.

A Stamford couple is keeping the memory of their son alive more than a decade after he was killed while serving as a Navy SEAL. Brian Bill, 31, of Stamford, was killed in Afghanistan in 2011 when a ...

A member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six was killed on Sunday during a mission that rescued an American doctor from kidnappers in Afghanistan. The doctor, Dilip Joseph (pictured), was abducted along ...

As twilight fell on August 6, 2011, the helicopter call sign Extortion 17 lifted off on a mission to reinforce Rangers engaged in combat in Afghanistan. The CH-47 Chinook was carrying U.S. Navy SEALs, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Pentagon says a U.S. Navy SEAL from North Carolina has died while fighting in Afghanistan. The military says Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Thomas Harris drowned Saturday.

The Battle of Takur Ghar began three days into Operation Anaconda—an attempt by thousands of U.S. and allied troops to ...