BlackHawk Down

On midafternoon, October 3 1993, task force Ranger composed with U.S. Army Ranger and Delta Force operators were about to be dropped in uninvited on a gathering of Habr Gidr clan leaders in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. This clan, led by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, had picked a fight with the United States of America, and it was, without a doubt, going down. Today’s targets were two of Aidids’s top lieutenants. They would be arrested and imprisoned with a growing number of the belligerent clan’s bosses on an island off the southern Somali Coast city of Kismayo.

Waiting for the code word for launch, which for that mission was “Irene,” they were a formidable sum of men and machines. There were four of the amazing AH-6 Little Birds, two-seat bu

During the battle of Mogadishu Army soldiers demonstrated and performed all the Army Values. Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage played a major role during the battle of October 3rd.

Soon after the Rangers touched ground gunfire started to come in from all directions. SSG Eversmann already had a young Ranger by the name of Blackburn badly injured that needed to be evacuated as soon as possible. He knew the D-boys worked fast. He kept checking behind him to see if the ground convoy had moved up. He most have looked a dozen times before he saw the first Humvee round the corner about three blocks down. Soon after he saw a Black Hawk was hit with an RPG.

The ground convoy, which was lined up and idling out by the front gate, consisted of nine wide-body Humvees and three five-ton trucks. The truck would be use to haul the prisoners and assault forces out. The Humvees were filled with Rangers, Delta operators, and four members of SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) Team Six, part of the navy’s special forces branch. Counting the three surveillance birds and the spy plane high overhead, there were nineteen aircraft, twelve vehicles, and about 160 men.

Super Six One was going down, now Ranger task force had to break up and send a team to crash site t

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