Chief Kevin Houston KIA Extortion 17 Afghanistan DEVGRU SEAL Team 6 Gold Squadron Navy Challenge Coin Air Force Special Ops and unconventional warfare missions in

and unconventional warfare missions in order to disrupt and fix Iraqi forces arrayed along the "Green Line"

the detachment's last commander

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

2 1/2 inch NASA Medallion

Chief Kevin Houston KIA Extortion 17 Afghanistan DEVGRU SEAL Team 6 Gold Squadron Navy Challenge Coin Air Force Special Ops and unconventional warfare missions inThis 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