2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown or cancel their mission went unheeded. American rules of engagement were tightened by Gen. Stanley McChrystal in 2009, in order to improve American counterinsurgency strategy. McChrystal cited a previous "overreliance on firepower and force protection" and the need to reduce civilian casualties and win the cooperation of the local population. 2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown On 6 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 an Immediate Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi
Chinook Sciences 300 million pound deal in principle ( subject to acceptable EPC) with the environmental and waste management company Bee'ah to build a thermal energy-from-waste facility in Sharjah, UAE. If the project proceeds, the deal is expected to create around 200 British jobs and secure another 650. On November 18, 2015, Chinook Sciences was honoured to win the Power/Energy category at the Institute of Engineering and Technology Awards in London. Chinook Sciences Chinook Sciences is a US and UK based technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery. Chinook Sciences holds many patents for its non-incineration "ultra clean