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re: 3OCT1993: Battle of Mogadishu, Operation Gothic Serpent, Black Hawk Down
Posted on 10/3/25 at 4:32 pm to HenryParsons
Posted on 10/3/25 at 4:32 pm to HenryParsons
Run the exact same mission profile enough times, even the Somalis can figure it out.
Plus, the armor that should have been there, wasn't.
Plus, the armor that should have been there, wasn't.
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Posted on 10/3/25 at 5:20 pm to Raging Tiger
My First Team leader was there. I was a young private and seeing a NCO at that time with a combat patch. He was like a God. Everyone looked up to him. Cool dude, ended up doing one tour in Afghanistan and then Iraq and got out. He saw the writing on the wall back then.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 7:12 pm to wileyjones
quote:All to help people like this bitch and her family...
gets me furious every time I watch it that Americans died in that shithole.
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 10/3/25 at 9:41 pm to HenryParsons
Here is a good listen if you have time, best to break it up over a few days when you have the time to listen, very detailed. Mike Durant is speaking with Phil Williams (graduated high school with Phil, good guy). Mike started a company, Principle Solutions, in Huntsville, Alabama which he turned over to his employees, it is an ESOP.
Right Side Radio
Right Side Radio
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 11:38 pm
Posted on 10/3/25 at 10:09 pm to Harry Morgan
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Bill Clinton and Les Aspin left them hanging
The first Clinton to leave our guys hanging in the wind but not the last.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 10:27 pm to A10Rebel
Commander for JTF Somalia lives in Lacombe now
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 11:27 pm
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:41 am to wileyjones
quote:It feels so real that I have never been able to watch it past about 45 minutes.
great movie
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:51 am to Harry Morgan
quote:
Bill Clinton and Les Aspin left them hanging.
Clinton was one of the worst foreign policy Presidents this country has ever seen. All those years of his work culminated on a sunny morning in September 2001.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:38 am to HenryParsons
Blood on Bill Clinton and Les Aspin's hands. US forces should never have been under UN control there. Side note shortly after this when US forces were put back under US control a couple of key air strikes and ground force raids later and Mahmound farrah aydeed skyhook or whatever his name was, was never heard from again. The man in charge then was a Louisiana born and raised flag O.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 10:13 am to choupiquesushi
I precepted a male nurse,was a retired Army E-8 Sergeant that was in the 10th Mountain Division QRF in the BlackHawk Down fight.
Impressive guy,he wasn’t a braggart.I knew him a good many months before he told me he was involved in that.
He said his anxiety level was off the charts at first.He decided he likely was going to die that day but he was determined he was going to take as many as he could with him.Then his mind went into another dimension like everything was in slow motion,was a surreal experience.
While he was in hospital he watched nurses going about their business and decided that was going to do after he retired.He went on to become a NP.
Impressive guy,he wasn’t a braggart.I knew him a good many months before he told me he was involved in that.
He said his anxiety level was off the charts at first.He decided he likely was going to die that day but he was determined he was going to take as many as he could with him.Then his mind went into another dimension like everything was in slow motion,was a surreal experience.
While he was in hospital he watched nurses going about their business and decided that was going to do after he retired.He went on to become a NP.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 11:36 am to A10Rebel
quote:
The first Clinton to leave our guys hanging in the wind but not the last.
This.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:06 pm to A10Rebel
quote:
The first Clinton to leave our guys hanging in the wind but not the last.
In fairness bush sent US troops first. Then the UN guys got slaughtered then Clinton had the made for evening news amphibious landing with the US kind of taking over the UN operation.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:47 pm to holmesbr
The US command asking Clinton and Aspin for more resources to use in the Mogadishu environment. Namely more armor for Humvees, Bradley vehicles, helicopter and fixed wing gunships. All requests were denied.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:33 pm to holmesbr
Look, I got my own reservations on Bush but I said "Clinton," specifically not president.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:41 pm to A10Rebel
quote:
said "Clinton," specifically not president.
I don't disagree with you.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:45 pm to holmesbr
I'm really still very angry over Bengahzi.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:46 pm to HenryParsons
Gordon and Shughart was some legit badasses. Both were Delta Force.
It has been since discussed with how lethal they were with the overwhelming group enclosing on them.
2 men, held off 100s until the bitter end when they straight ran out of bullets.
Stacking bodies is a perfect term for what they were actually doing
It has been since discussed with how lethal they were with the overwhelming group enclosing on them.
2 men, held off 100s until the bitter end when they straight ran out of bullets.
Stacking bodies is a perfect term for what they were actually doing
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:39 pm to A10Rebel
That movie makes me mad as well.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:52 pm to Fat and Happy
quote:.
Happy
Gordon and Shughart was some legit badasses.
They kept requesting to be inserted after being denied. Thats some giant brass nuts.
Posted on 10/5/25 at 2:55 am to wileyjones
quote:
great movie. but gets me furious every time I watch it that Americans died in that shithole
I found it difficult to watch for that reason - have never rewatched it.
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