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U.S. Navy SEALs Lt. Michael P. Murphy, from Patchogue, NY and Perry Officer 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson, from Cupertino, Calif, pose for photo during their deployment to Afghanistan in 2005.

Murphy and Axelson would be killed by enemy forces during a reconnaissance mission, Operation Red Wings, on June 28, 2005. They were part of a four-man team tasked with finding a key Taliban leader in the mountainous terrain near Asadabad, Afghanistan, when they came under fire from a much larger enemy force.

(Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy)

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Memorial Day Murph

1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 air squats, 1 mile run

May 28, 2023

Before picture

After picture (too tired to hang)

Liz, a great American, came to visit me! She is active Army and was stationed in a somewhat nearby county. We spent the weekend in France and then did the annual memorial workout for LT. Mike Murphy. His story is below. Amazing man and another great American!!

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LT. Michael P. Murphy

United States Navy (SEAL)

May 7, 1976 – June 28, 2005

LT. Michael P. Murphy (SEAL) was the officer-in-charge of a four-man SEAL element in support of Operation Red Wings, tasked with finding a key anti-coalition militia commander near Asadabad, Afghanistan. Shortly after inserting into the objective area, the SEALs were spotted by three goat herders who were initially detained and then released. It is believed the goat herders immediately reported the SEALs’ presence to Taliban fighters.

A fierce gun battle ensued on the steep face of the mountain between the SEALs and a much larger enemy force. Despite the intensity of the firefight and suffering grave gunshot wounds himself, Murphy is credited with risking his own life to save the lives of his teammates. Murphy, intent on making contact with headquarters, but realizing this would be impossible in the extreme terrain where they were fighting, unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his own life moved into the open, where he could gain a better position to transmit a call to get help for his men.

Moving away from the protective mountain rocks, he knowingly exposed himself to increased enemy gunfire. This deliberate and heroic act deprived him of cover and made him a target for the enemy. While continuing to be fired upon, Murphy made contact with the SOF Quick Reaction Force at Bagram Air Base and requested assistance. He calmly provided his unit’s location and the size of the enemy force while requesting immediate support for his team. At one point, he was shot in the back causing him to drop the transmitter. Murphy picked it back up, completed the call and continued firing at the enemy who was closing in. Severely wounded, LT. Murphy returned to his cover position with his men and continued the battle.

LT. Murphy fought on, allowing one member of his team (Marcus Luttrell) to escape, before he was killed. For his selfless actions, LT. Michael Murphy was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on October 27, 2007. We honor his sacrifice and memory through The Murph Challenge. Find out more about Michael Murphy at the Memorial Foundation created in his name.

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تجریش تهران

What is the drainage of the area? Tajrish neighborhood is located in Chand district of Tehran and where is its area? Tajrish is located in District 1 of Tehran and it is also known as the center of Shemiranat region. The area of ​​Tajrish starts from the north of Elahia and extends to the south of Darband and Jafarabad.

Which neighborhoods are included in the Tajrish neighborhoods of Tehran? Other neighborhoods near Tajrish include Qaytarieh, Farmaniyeh, Hekmat and Niavaran in the east; Darband and Saadabad in the north, and Zafaraniyeh, which includes the neighborhoods of Asadabad and Mahmoudieh, are located in the west of Tajrish, he pointed out. In the following, we have provided a detailed and complete map of Tajrish Tehran.

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The flag had to be waved heavily on the day of independence, many people died in Taliban firing

The flag had to be waved heavily on the day of independence, many people died in Taliban firing

Image Source: AP On Thursday, for the second consecutive day in Afghanistan, Afghans demonstrated with the national flag at isolated places. Kabul: Afghans held demonstrations with the national flag in isolated places in Afghanistan for the second consecutive day on Thursday and the Taliban, facing growing governance challenges, tried to suppress it with violence. According to a report by the…

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On June 28, 2005, deep behind enemy lines east of Asadabad in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan, a very committed four-man Navy SEAL team was conducting a reconnaissance mission at the unforgiving altitude of approximately 10,000 feet. The SEALs, Lt. Michael Murphy, Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Danny Dietz, Sonar Technician 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew Axelson and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marcus Luttrell had a vital task. The four SEALs were scouting Ahmad Shah – a terrorist in his mid-30s who grew up in the adjacent mountains just to the south.

Under the assumed name Muhammad Ismail, Shah led a guerrilla group known to locals as the “Mountain Tigers” that had aligned with the Taliban and other militant groups close to the Pakistani border. The SEAL mission was compromised when the team was spotted by local nationals, who presumably reported its presence and location to the Taliban.

A fierce firefight erupted between the four SEALs and a much larger enemy force of more than 50 anti-coalition militia. The enemy had the SEALs outnumbered. They also had terrain advantage. They launched a well-organized, three-sided attack on the SEALs. The firefight continued relentlessly as the overwhelming militia forced the team deeper into a ravine.

Trying to reach safety, the four men, now each wounded, began bounding down the mountain’s steep sides, making leaps of 20 to 30 feet. Approximately 45 minutes into the fight, pinned down by overwhelming forces, Dietz, the communications petty officer, sought open air to place a distress call back to the base. But before he could, he was shot in the hand, the blast shattering his thumb.

Despite the intensity of the firefight and suffering grave gunshot wounds himself, Murphy is credited with risking his own life to save the lives of his teammates. Murphy, intent on making contact with headquarters, but realizing this would be impossible in the extreme terrain where they were fighting, unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his own life moved into the open, where he could gain a better position to transmit a call to get help for his men.

Moving away from the protective mountain rocks, he knowingly exposed himself to increased enemy gunfire. This deliberate and heroic act deprived him of cover and made him a target for the enemy. While continuing to be fired upon, Murphy made contact with the SOF Quick Reaction Force at Bagram Air Base and requested assistance. He calmly provided his unit’s location and the size of the enemy force while requesting immediate support for his team. At one point he was shot in the back causing him to drop the transmitter. Murphy picked it back up, completed the call and continued firing at the enemy who was closing in. Severely wounded, Lt. Murphy returned to his cover position with his men and continued the battle.

An MH-47 Chinook helicopter, with eight additional SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers aboard, was sent is as part of an extraction mission to pull out the four embattled SEALs. The MH-47 was escorted by heavily-armored, Army attack helicopters. Entering a hot combat zone, attack helicopters are used initially to neutralize the enemy and make it safer for the lightly-armored, personnel-transport helicopter to insert.

The heavy weight of the attack helicopters slowed the formation’s advance prompting the MH-47 to outrun their armored escort. They knew the tremendous risk going into an active enemy area in daylight, without their attack support, and without the cover of night. Risk would, of course, be minimized if they put the helicopter down in a safe zone. But knowing that their warrior brothers were shot, surrounded and severely wounded, the rescue team opted to directly enter the oncoming battle in hopes of landing on brutally hazardous terrain.

As the Chinook raced to the battle, a rocket-propelled grenade struck the helicopter, killing all 16 men aboard.

On the ground and nearly out of ammunition, the four SEALs, Murphy, Luttrell, Dietz and Axelson, continued the fight. By the end of the two-hour gunfight that careened through the hills and over cliffs, Murphy, Axelson and Dietz had been killed. An estimated 35 Taliban were also dead.

The fourth SEAL, Luttrell, was blasted over a ridge by a rocket propelled grenade and was knocked unconscious. Regaining consciousness some time later, Luttrell managed to escape – badly injured – and slowly crawl away down the side of a cliff. Dehydrated, with a bullet wound to one leg, shrapnel embedded in both legs, three vertebrae cracked; the situation for Luttrell was grim. Rescue helicopters were sent in, but he was too weak and injured to make contact. Traveling seven miles on foot he evaded the enemy for nearly a day. Gratefully, local nationals came to his aid, carrying him to a nearby village where they kept him for three days. The Taliban came to the village several times demanding that Luttrell be turned over to them. The villagers refused. One of the villagers made his way to a Marine outpost with a note from Luttrell, and U.S. forces launched a massive operation that rescued him from enemy territory on July 2.

By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit and inspirational devotion to his men in the face of certain death, Lt. Murphy was able to relay the position of his unit, an act that ultimately led to the rescue of Luttrell and the recovery of the remains of the three who were killed in the battle.

This was the second worst single-day U.S. Forces death toll since Operation Enduring Freedom began nearly eight years ago. It was the second largest loss of life for Naval Special Warfare since World War II.

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Scene drammatiche che spezzano il cuore: donne lanciano i bimbi oltre il filo spinato all'aeroporto di Kabul Numerose persone sono morte nella città afghana di Asadabad quando i talebani hanno sparato sulla gente che sventolava la bandiera nazionale durante le manifestazioni annuali dell'indipendenza de Paese.Lo riporta l'agenzia di stampa Reuters citando un testimone oculare. Non è chiaro se le vittime siano state colpite dal fuoco dei talebani o siano morte in seguito al fuggi fuggi provocato dagli spari. Intanto sale a 12 il bilancio delle vittime da domenica all'aeroporto di Kabul. "E' stato orribile, le donne hanno lanciato i loro bambini oltre il filo spinato" all'aeroporto "chiedendo ai soldati di prenderli". E' il drammatico racconto a Skynews di un alto ufficiale afghano, che ha aggiunto che alcuni bimbi "sono rimasti impigliati nel filo spinato". globalist

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On June 28, 2005, three of four SEALs on the ground (Murphy, Dietz, Axelson) were killed during combat operations in support of Operation Red Wing. On the same day, a QRF of eight Navy SEALs and 8 Army Night Stalkers were also killed when the MH-47 helicopter that they were aboard was shot down by enemy fire in the vicinity of Asadabad, Afghanistan in Kunar Province. My first assignment was in Asadabad in 2003, that place is no joke. Never Forget them 🇺🇸♠️ (at Afghanistan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB-54sQAmyR/?igshid=1696x6etpeiab

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Puppy with Marines just before a combat operation, Asadabad, Afghanistan I’ve been looking through my photographic archives for my best photos to show of CH-47D Chinooks in the run-up to the release of THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17, and I ran across this one! No, it’s not a photograph of a Chinook helicopter, but a puppy! I was embedded with Marines and was waiting for a big operation to kick off (that of course involved CH-47D Chinooks – like all of them did in Afghanistan, at lease the ones I covered), and while waiting this puppy walked up and said hello in puppy-ese! We said hi back! We were at Forward Operation Base Wright (FOB Wright), outside of Asadabad, Afghanistan. Follow this account for updates on current and future projects and for photographs of mine from around the world! Follow the Facebook account of THE FINAL MISSION OF EXTORTION 17: Facebook.com/Extortion17Book Follow my author / photographer Facebook: Facebook.com/EdDarack1 Www.darack.com #Marines #MarineCorps #Extortion17 #Extortion17Book #EdDarack #Afghanistan #WarDogs #WarDog #WarPuppy #Asadabad #FOBWright #Military #militarydog (at Asadabad, Afghanistan)

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Effect of mulch on some characteristics of potato in Asadabad, Hamedan - IJAAR

Effect of mulch on some characteristics of potato in Asadabad, Hamedan – IJAAR

Bita Azad, Mohammad Reza Hassandokht, Khosroo Parvizi

Department of Horticulture, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran

Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

Faculty Member, Research Center of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hamadan, Iran

Key words: Mulch, Potato, Weed, Asadabad.

Abstract

In order to determine the effect of mulch on some…

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BOOK REVIEW: DUSTOFF 7-3

My Review: Following on the heals of reading about the early history of Dustoff/Medevac missions in the Vietnam War in “They Called It Naked Fanny” by Scott Harrington, and “Dead Men Flying” by Patrick Henry Brady, I wanted to compare those books to a story about the dustoff mission in today’s battlespace. 

Dustoff 7-3 is a story about a single crew and their experiences in the Wattapur Valley during Operation Hammer Down. Flying out of FOB Joyce, the author who served as the pilot in charge, tells about each mission they ran, be it resupply, rescue, or even picking up heroes (KIA) in the valley. 

The real strength of this book is the authors skill at telling a story. While not shy on detail or facts, the author really paints such an incredible tapestry that weaves his own emotions and feelings, with those of the crew, and the specific details of both life at the FOB and in the air over the battlefield. 

“Three days. Eleven hoists. Fourteen survivors. Three critical resupply missions.Two bodies recovered“ is the tag line you see in the description and in other reviews, but more than that, Sabiston really makes you feel like you are in his seat whether it’s putting a wheel on the roof of a Qalat, or having Kiowa’s firing rockets across his nose. He talks about his fear of heights, and his worries about calculating weight, power, and fuel numbers. He gives you the feeling of what it’s like to search and hunt for an orange panel on the cliff side, or to be socked in by clouds and fog. 

Definitely worth a read, and the story of his crew and especially his medic is something special.

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Title: Dustoff 7-3: Saving Lives Under Fire in Afghanistan

Authors: Erik Sabiston

ISBN: 0989798364

Tags: 101st Airborne, 10th Aviation Brigade, 10th Aviation Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th General Support Aviation Battalion, 10th Mtn, 159th Air Ambulance Company, 25th ID, 35th Infantry Regiment, 6-6 Air Cavalry Task Force, 6th Cavalry Regiment, Afghanistan, Asadabad, CH-47 Chinook, Dust off, FOB Gamberi, FOB Ghazni, FOB Joyce, FOB Monti, FOB Shank, FOB Wright, Fort Drum, Fort Rucker, Forward Support Medical Team, Jalalabad, Jalalabad Air Base, Korengal Valley, Kunar Valley, LZ Dragonfly, Medevac helicopter, OH-58 Kiowa, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Hammer Down, Operation Strong Eagle, Pech River Valley, Task Force Cacti, Tora Bora Mountains, UH-60 Blackhawk, US Army, Watapur Valley, Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield

Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Aviation.US.US Army, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Middle East-SWA.Afghanistan.US

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This book is for heroes.

Dustoff 7-3 tells the true story of four unlikely heroes in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, where medics are forced to descend on wires to reach the wounded and helicopter pilots must fight wind, weather, and enemy fire to pluck casualties from some of the world’s most difficult combat arenas. Complete opposites thrown together, cut off, and outnumbered, Chief Warrant Officer Erik Sabiston and his flight crew answered the call in a race against time, not to take lives—but to save them.

The concept of evacuating wounded soldiers by helicopter developed in the Korean War and became a staple during the war in Vietnam where heroic, unarmed chopper crews flew vital missions known to the grateful grunts on the ground as Dustoffs.

The crew of Dustoff 7-3 carried on that heroic tradition, flying over a region that had seen scores of American casualties, known among veterans as the Valley of Death. At the end of Operation Hammer Down, they had rescued 14 soldiers, made three critical supply runs, recovered two soldiers killed in action, and nearly died. It took all of three days. **

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This is simply the best documentary on Afghanistan I have seen. Dated 2006. It was filmed only in Kabul city and surroundings. I never went to Kabul. I only visited Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south in March 1972, and saw some of the countryside near the border with Pakistan in Jaji, Paktia Province in August-September 1984, and in Kunar Province between Asmar and Narey in August 1985, and areas north of the Kunar capital of Asadabad in October 1987. So this film is a revelation to me in many ways -- but it also evokes memories. I find it quite emotional.

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Operation Red Wings Observance (June 28, 2005) A brief history of Operation Red Wings: On June 28, 2005, deep behind enemy lines east of Asadabad in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan, a very committed...

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Por qué Talibanes ganan guerra Afganistán

Por qué Talibanes ganan guerra Afganistán

Por qué Talibanes ganan guerra Afganistán ➤ Historia y cultura en Afganistán ➤ Huir de los talibanes. Durante 50 días, Abdul Hanif y su pequeña fuerza paramilitar afgana habían estado luchando contra los combatientes talibanes que dominaban la ciudad de Asadabad, la capital de la provincia de Kunar, en el este de Afganistán. Los talibanes estaban ganando terreno, y Hanif, un funcionario…

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Protestos no Afeganistão se espalham e chegam a Cabul; Talibã pede unidade nacional

Protestos no Afeganistão se espalham e chegam a Cabul; Talibã pede unidade nacional

CABUL (Reuters) – O Talibã convocou os imãs do Afeganistão a pedirem união quando fizerem as primeiras orações de sexta-feira depois que o grupo islâmico tomou o controle do país, em meio ao avanço de protestos contra a tomada de poder para mais cidades, inclusive a capital Cabul. Várias pessoas foram mortas quando militantes do Talibã dispararam contra uma multidão na cidade de Asadabad, no…

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Protestos no Afeganistão se espalham e chegam a Cabul; Talibã pede unidade nacional

Protestos no Afeganistão se espalham e chegam a Cabul; Talibã pede unidade nacional

CABUL (Reuters) – O Talibã convocou os imãs do Afeganistão a pedirem união quando fizerem as primeiras orações de sexta-feira depois que o grupo islâmico tomou o controle do país, em meio ao avanço de protestos contra a tomada de poder para mais cidades, inclusive a capital Cabul. Várias pessoas foram mortas quando militantes do Talibã dispararam contra uma multidão na cidade de Asadabad, no…