Pentagon Releases Identities of SEALs Killed, Not Unit Name
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The Pentagon today released the names of the 30 U.S. service personnel killed Aug. 6 when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, including 17 Navy SEAL commandos from one of the military’s most elite counterterrorism units.
The Pentagon declined to publicly identify the SEAL unit -- the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or Devgru, based in Dam Neck, Virginia. It is the same unit that carried out the lethal raid against Osama bin Laden in May.