Extortion 17: Raise a Glass to Those Lost, and Continue Looking for Answers
by Susan Katz Keating Twelve years ago today, 30 American military servicemen and a U.S. military working dog were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down in Afghanistan. Within hours of this shocking event, I began searching for whatever I could learn, for an article for PEOPLE magazine. As …