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Operation Noble Eagle Which operation, immediately after 11 September 2001, focused on protecting the US homeland from internal and external air attacks of the nature used on September 11? Order of 9/11 Plane Crashes AA11 crashed 8:46 at World Trade Center North Tower UA175 crashes 9:03 at World Trade Center South Tower AA77 crashed 9:37 at the Pentagon UA93 crashed at 10:03 at Shanksville, Pennsylvania 9/11 Deaths Injuries Hijackers Deaths: 2996 Injuries: 6000 Hijackers: 19 Operation Enduring Freedom US invades afghanistan to eliminate taliban to destroy Al Qaeda Operation Anaconda consisted of the battle at Shah-I-Kot Mountain AKA Battle of Robert Ridge.. small firefight against al Qaeda that resulted in an American win.. Kevin Whalen Silver Star recipient.. his team was ambushed. Whalen exposes himself while shooting back with a grenade launcher. The launcher was hit and damaged and Whalen was hit three times. He was able to perform first aid and call in close air support. He asked to be the last one to leave. Operation Freedom's Sentinel After all troops had to be withdrawn from Afghan due to an expiring agreement, a new agreement was made to have 11,000 American troops and 28 NATO nations stay in Afghan and train Afghan Air Force to be fully independent. Jason D. Cunningham Rescue medic/pararescueman on a mission to rescue two American servicemen who were under fire from Al Qaeda and Taliban forces. His helicopter came under fire and was severely damaged. He pulled several bodies from his helicopter and brought them to a more secure location to preform first aid while taking continuous mortar and small arms fire. He was responsible for 10 gravely wounded lives being saved. Ramon Colon-Lopez Pararescueman in the first of four helicopters and took small arms fire. Helicopters had to land and SMSgt Colin-Lopez pressed forward with his team and continued the raid on a drug kingpin funding terrorism. Resulted in two enemies killed, 10 apprehensions, and multiple enemy weapons destroyed. Elizabeth Jacobson Security Forces member guarding a convoy during Operation Iraqi Freedom and her convoy was hit by an IED. She was the first Security Forces Airman and first female Airman to die during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Delorean Sheridan Completing a routine pre-brief with his team for a combat mission when an Afghan Police Officer suddenly opened fire from a truck mounted machine gun from 25 feet away while also the base cane under attack from 15 to 20 insurgents with heavy machine gun fire. He was able to neutralize one of the main shooters and then pull several wounded members to safety. He helped coordinate six medical evacuation helicopters to his location to extract the wounded. He also directed close air combat helicopters to eliminate the enemy. Operation Iraqi Freedom Operation where U.S. troops invaded Iraq and Saddam's forces collapsed almost immediately. Baghdad fell, and Saddam and other Iraqi leaders went into hiding. In the months that followed Saddam and many of his supporters were captured. The approach we took was too use an overwhelming amount of missiles to psychologically mess with the enemy as opposed to physically. 2003. Operation New Dawn New name for Operation Iraqi Freedom. This signifies that everything was under control. And this new start was to "advise, assist, and train the Iraqi Security Forces to combat the terrorists on their own so we could withdraw our troops.