In the opening hour of his inaugural East Coast drive-time show, Michael Savage signaled he has no intention of abandoning his passion for uncovering the full story behind the deaths of 22 members of Navy SEAL Team 6 in Afghanistan shortly after it was leaked that their unit killed Osama bin Laden.

The subject came up for a second time in the show when a regular listener said she liked the fact that he covered subjects no one else on talk-radio seemed to be talking about.

"They were killed. They were assassinated. They were executed. Or it was done because there's a moron working inside the Defense Department who did it to them," Savage said.

"Either way, somebody should go to prison for this."

Savage called the August 2011 Taliban shootdown of the CH-47D Chinook helicopter that killed all 38 passengers "one of the greatest military scandals in American history."

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"How could we lose more men in one mission than in the entire history of the Navy SEALS, and no one has been held accountable for it?" he asked.

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Savage had further questions:

"Who put them in an old slow-flying helicopter in a combat zone?" "Why didn't they break them up into fast-strike helicopters?" "Who made this decision in the Defense Department? "Who made it in the Obama administration?"

"These are questions, man, and I want them answered, and I want a hearing; and you want to hear equality, you want to hear fairness? How about fairness to the families whose hearts are broken by somebody in the Obama administration who killed those Navy SEALs? Would that be equality?"

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said last month that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing early this year to investigate the disaster.

Savage noted on his show Thursday that he dedicated his novel "A Time for War" to the SEALs to try "to awaken America."

In July, as WND reported, the father of one of the SEALs told Savage in a radio interview he believed the U.S. government sent his son and his colleagues to their deaths.

After Vice President Joe Biden revealed that SEAL Team 6 carried out the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, Strange said the members of his son's team gave startling indications to their families they were about to meet their demise.

Charles Strange, the father of slain SEAL Michael Strange, told Savage that in June 2011, on at least three separate occasions his son grabbed him by the bicep and announced that he had prepared his will.

The bewildered father finally was able to find out what it all meant.

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Michael Strange, his father recalled, said: "Something's going on with the team. Somebody's leaking things out. Something's going on."

Savage, reacting with emotion, asked: "Your son knew he was being sent to his death?"

"They knew," Strange replied. "They knew something was up. Every one of them."

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Other families of the victims have reported similar experiences with their sons the last time they saw them, Strange said.

Strange said documents related to the crash that he obtained show that, among other anomalies, the rescue team was held back.

"This was all planned," he said. "I have it in the paperwork."

Strange affirmed that there was no chase helicopter or any other kind of support for the team.

"So, you're saying they planned to execute your son and the others on purpose?" Savage asked.

"One hundred percent, sir," Strange replied.

Investigation

Prompted by the concerns expressed by family members, Chaffetz said his subcommittee on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating the crash.

As WND reported in May, Strange recalled to the National Press Club in Washington his experience with President Obama at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Aug. 9, 2011, when the remains of 30 U.S. troops were brought home from Afghanistan.

He leaned over to whisper into Obama’s ear to ask if there would be a congressional investigation into the death of his son.

President Obama whispered back, “We will look very, very, very deep into this.”

But Strange said he hadn't heard a word since that encounter.

The families have filed a lawsuit against Obama, Vice President Biden, the Taliban, the governments of Afghanistan and Iran, because the Islamic regime promises to pay $10,000 for every dead U.S. service member.

Among their many suspicions, the families question the sudden replacement of seven Afghan commandos on board the helicopter just before takeoff. The seven who died in the attack are not the seven listed in the flight manifest. The families say that to this day, they don't know the identities of the dead Afghans.

Strange noted that the chopper’s black box was never recovered and doubts the explanation that it was washed away in a flash flood.