Auction Ends: Nov 20, 2021 12:00 PM PST

Collectibles

Signed by all 12 of the Green Berets, Horse Soldier Bourbon

Item Number: 112

Estimated Value: 500 USD
Sold: 711 USD to lorazel

The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to United States Veterans Initiative (tax ID 95-4382752) on behalf of the winner.

Number of Bids: 26 - Bid History

Item Description

Horse Soldier Bourbon signed by all 12 of the Green Berets.

The Green Berets, who went from elite warriors to elite bourbon makers.

Days after 9/11, while many Americans were watching the news in a state of shock and horror, a team of 12 Green Berets took action. They covertly entered Afghanistan and began to wage war against the Taliban … on horseback.

It wasn’t until 48 hours before their insertion that the men were informed they would have to traverse the steep and treacherous landscape of Afghanistan on horses. It was the first of many aspects of this mission, code-named Task Force Dagger, that they would have to figure out as they went along. Despite being often cut off from communications with command headquarters and outnumbered forty to one, these men, The Horse Soldiers, fought in a series of intense battles side-by-side with militia allies and successfully captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif from the Taliban, a strategic stronghold.

The Horse Soldier’s story inspired a book, the movie “12 Strong,” and a monument that can be seen at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Nearly 20 years after Task Force Dagger’s success, retired Special Operators Scott Neil, Rob Schaefer, Mark Nutsch, Bob Pennington, Tyler Garner and John Koko, along with Elizabeth Pritchard-Koko, found a new mission: they founded American Soldier Bourbon, which is sold in bottles pressed in molds made from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center site.