Posted on Jul 29, 2016
UNSUNG HEROES: 12 Green Berets Who Took On Hundreds In This Epic Afghan Battle
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On April 6, 2008, 10 Special Forces commandos earned Silver Stars for one epic firefight in northeastern Afghanistan.
The Shok Valley in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province is so impenetrable that during their nearly 10 year occupation of the country, the Soviets never entered it once. And for the first seven years of Operation Enduring Freedom, no Coalition troops did either. So when, on the morning of April 6, 2008, a 12-man team of U.S. Special Forces operators with ODA 3336, 3rd Special Forces group jumped from a helicopter into the Shok Valley, they became the first members of a foreign military to step foot on the treacherous home turf of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, the notorious militant group that had controlled the valley for decades.
The Shok Valley in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province is so impenetrable that during their nearly 10 year occupation of the country, the Soviets never entered it once. And for the first seven years of Operation Enduring Freedom, no Coalition troops did either. So when, on the morning of April 6, 2008, a 12-man team of U.S. Special Forces operators with ODA 3336, 3rd Special Forces group jumped from a helicopter into the Shok Valley, they became the first members of a foreign military to step foot on the treacherous home turf of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, the notorious militant group that had controlled the valley for decades.
UNSUNG HEROES: 12 Green Berets Who Took On Hundreds In This Epic Afghan Battle
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In 2005, CAT A Civil Affairs members of J-BAD PRT were the first Americans to set foot in Nuristan where they encountered red hair Nuristanis that were willing to talk, and escort the Team as far North as they could go in their vehicles given the fact that most of Nursitan is mountainous.
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