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3 Bottles: Horse Solder Bourbon; Premium, Signature (Signed), and Reserve Book: First Casualty the untold story of the CIA mission to avenge 9/11 Two Horse Soldier leather rocks glass THE ORIGINS OF HORSE SOLDIER: The story begins at ground zero. The Horse Soldier Bourbon story is woven into the fabric of one of America’s most historic moments. Just days after 9/11, elite teams of Green Berets were inserted into Afghanistan, some on horseback. Dubbed the “Horse Soldiers”, their exploits were retold in the Hollywood blockbuster 12 strong, the CNN documentary "Legion of Brothers", and memorialized by America’s Response Monument located at Ground Zero in New York City. Horse Soldier Premium Bourbon, signed by Alex R. Hernandez, CIA Team Alpha. Prior to joining the CIA, Hernandez served in the U.S. Army Special Forces-the Green Berets for more than 25 years, retiring at the rank of sergeant major. As a CIA case officer, Hernandez served in the paramilitary component of the Special Activities Division and in the Counterterrorism Center, where he held senior and executive level positions. Most notably he served as the deputy of Team Alpha - the first CIA team to go behind enemy lines in Afghanistan in 2001. “The Green Berets Who Went From Elite Warriors to Elite Bourbon Makers” by Scott Neil October 12, 2019 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, a movie 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 Freedom Distillery. The all-American company’s signature offering is the award-winning Horse Soldier Bourbon, which is sold in bottles pressed in molds made from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center site.