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Operation Red Wings was a mission planned by the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment (2/3) to destroy the operations of an up-and-coming terrorist / insurgent leader named Ahmad Shah. Red Wings, which is frequently mis-referenced as "Operation Redwing" (Red Wings was named in honor of the Detroit Red Wings professional hockey team—Operation Redwing was a series of thermonuclear tests in the south Pacific in the late 50s) ended in tragedy just hours after a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team inserted near the suspected lair of the insurgent leader in late June of 2005, when Ahmad Shah's men ambushed the four, killing three of them, then shooting down an MH-47 Special Operations Chinook sent in to save the SEALs, killing all 16 on board. Operation Red Wings, as well as the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers (named in honor of the Hartford / New England Whalers hockey team, Whalers had the same goal as Red Wings, but with a startlingly different outcome) are both documented in Ed Darack's book, VICTORY POINT: Operations Red Wings and Whalers - The Marine Corps Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan. VICTORY POINT reveals, for the first time, startling information and details about Red Wings, as well as the virtually unknown (but successful) Operation Whalers. |
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| Just some of what you can expect in VICTORY POINT: |
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| —The big picture overview of Red Wings: the specific mission intent, how it was developed, what operation it was modeled after, and how it developed from a Marine Corps only mission to one that included Navy SEALs. |
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| —Just who is Ahmad Shah, the man responsible for the greatest single day loss of life of Special Operations personnel since the founding of SOCOM and the greatest one-day loss of American life since the start of the Afghan campaign? Through first-person interviews of the Marines who, through diligent human intelligence (HUMINT) work and raw intel acumen uncovered the identity of Shah, Darack reveals to the world, for the first time, who he is, where he came from, his allegiances, and his goals. |
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| —The chaos that enveloped the special operations commanders during the rescue phase of Red Wings. |
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| —Highly detailed maps, based on Department of Defense imagery data, custom made for VICTORY POINT, never-before-published. |
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| —Never-before-published photographs, and much more |
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| —VICTORY POINT also engagingly brings the reader into Operation Whalers, which had the same mission objective as Red Wings, but with a much different outcome than Red Wings. |
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| Learn more about VICTORY POINT by going to the book's page on either Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com, or Visit the book's official home page at www.victorypoint.info And please watch the VICTORY POINT video below: |
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