2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown 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 Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board - 25 American special operations personnel, one pilot and two crewmen of the United States Army Reserve, one pilot and one crewman of the United States Army National Guard, seven members of
Chinook (newspaper) Guru Maharaj Ji, who visited Denver and established a mission there in late 1971. Contributors to "Chinook" included Chip Berlet. Chinook (newspaper) Chinook was a counterculture underground newspaper published weekly in Denver, Colorado from Aug. 21, 1969 to Jan. 21, 1972. It was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate. A total of 117 issues were printed. In 1972 it merged with "Boulder" magazine to become "The Straight Creek Journal", which considered itself an alternative press rather than an underground press publication, publishing weekly from Feb. 10, 1972 to Aug. 7, 1980. According to Abe Peck in his memoir "Uncovering