10-03-2010, 08:31
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Quiet Professional
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Location: NorCal
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Battle of Mogadishu 3-4 Oct 1993
Another painful reminder that loss sometimes teaches us the most important of lessons.
http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc...c=GetTRDoc.pdf
In remembrance.
MSG Gary Gordon, MOH
SFC Randy Shugart, MOH
And 17 other valiant Americans.
Richard
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10-03-2010, 08:42
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Gold Star Father
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Littleton, Colorado
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Rest in Peace, brothers! Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. You are ALWAYS missed and NEVER forgotten!!!
Seems like only yesterday ...
molon labe
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10-03-2010, 09:37
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MSG Gary Gordon, 33, Killed defending the crew of Super Six-Four, Medal of Honor, Purple Heart
SFC Randy Shughart, 35, Killed defending the crew of Super Six-Four, Medal of Honor, Purple Heart
SSG Daniel Busch, 25, Crashed on Super Six-One, died from wounds received defending the downed crew, Silver Star, Purple Heart
SFC Earl Fillmore, 28, Killed moving to the first crash site, Silver Star, Purple Heart
SFC Matt Rierson, 33, Killed on October 6 , 1993 by a mortar which landed just outside the hangar, Silver Star, Purple Heart
MSG Tim "Griz" Martin, 38, Died from wounds received on the Lost Convoy, Silver Star, Purple Heart.
CPL Jamie Smith, 21 Died of wounds with the pinned-down force around crash site one, Bronze Star with Valor Device and Oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart
SPC James Cavaco, 26, Killed on the Lost Convoy, Bronze Star with Valor Device Purple Heart
SGT Casey Joyce, 24, Killed on the Lost Convoy, Bronze Star with Valor Device Purple Heart
PFC Richard "Alphabet" Kowalewski, 20, Killed on the Lost Convoy, Bronze Star with Valor Device Purple Heart
SGT Dominick Pilla, 21, Killed on Struecker's convoy, Bronze Star with Valor Device Purple Heart
SGT Lorenzo Ruiz, 27, Killed on the Lost Convoy, Bronze Star with Valor Device Purple Heart
SSG William Cleveland, 34, Crew chief on Super Six-Four-killed, Silver Star,
Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device Purple Heart
SSG Thomas Field, 25, Crew chief on Super Six-Four-killed, Silver Star,
Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device Purple Heart
CW4 Raymond Frank, 45, Copilot of Super Six-Four-killed, Silver Star,
Air Medal with Valor Device Purple Heart
CW3 Clifton "Elvis" Wolcott, 36, Pilot of Super Six-One, died in crash, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device Purple Heart
CW2 Donovan "Bull" Briley, 33, Copilot of Super Six-One, died in crash, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with Valor Device Purple Heart
SGT Cornell Houston, 31, Killed on the rescue convoy Bronze Star with Valor Device,
de Fleury Medal Purple Heart
PFC James Martin Jr., 23, Killed on the rescue convoy, Purple Heart
We miss you all.
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10-03-2010, 12:10
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Quiet Professional
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Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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RIP Warriors, Vaya con Dios..
Thank you Richard.. It is good that we humans occasionally are prodded with the reality of how several small mistakes can turn into catastrophic failures.
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10-04-2010, 02:01
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Kansas
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Battle of Mogadishu
Rest in Peace Warriors. Thank you all very much for your service.
Sincerely,
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"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." William Ernest Henley
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10-04-2010, 06:02
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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God Bless,Rest in Peace Warriors......... 
Big Teddy
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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10-04-2010, 14:42
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It Hit me that today is OCT 4th as I'm weatching BlackHawk Down.
Rest in Peace Warriors. Thank you all very much for your service.
Blue Skies and Soft Landings.
May god have blessed your friends and Families.
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History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over."
COLONEL BULL SIMONS
Intelligence failures are failures of command [just] as operations failures are command failures.”
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10-15-2010, 18:47
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That was a sad, painful day. Some of the bravest of the brave. Amazing men, amazing sacrifice, selflessly given.
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10-03-2011, 06:10
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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God Bless,Rest in Peace Warriors...........
They were just simple soldiers and their ranks are growing thin....
But their presence should remind us; we may need their like again.......
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part
Is to clean up all of the troubles that the politicians start.
If we cannot do them honor while their here to hear the praise.......
Then at least let's give them homage at the ending of their days.......
Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:
OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR SOME SOLDIERS DIED TODAY..........(author unknown)
The passing of our soldiers often go unnoticed and unsung by most of the world, remembered only by family and friends. Wish it were not so. May they RIP, their familys will be in my though ts and prayers........
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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10-03-2011, 06:32
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Asset
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Europe, mostly
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18 Years Ago
Since it is the 18th anniversary of that tragic day, let me pay my respects to those 19 members of the special operations community who paid the highest price.
RIP American Warriors
Last edited by ECUPirate09; 10-05-2011 at 12:51.
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12-02-2015, 21:40
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Asset
Join Date: Nov 2010
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MSG Gordon question
I read on the SFA-72 website that MSG Gary Gordon was a member of C/2/10th SFG prior to moving on to Detachment-D. Other then the short blurb on the SFA-72 website I have been unable find anything that could confirm this. I was hoping someone on here could confirm this or point me in the right direction where I can find this information.
Thanks in advance for any information
-rylon
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12-31-2015, 22:05
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rylon
I read on the SFA-72 website that MSG Gary Gordon was a member of C/2/10th SFG prior to moving on to Detachment-D. Other then the short blurb on the SFA-72 website I have been unable find anything that could confirm this. I was hoping someone on here could confirm this or point me in the right direction where I can find this information.
Thanks in advance for any information
-rylon
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I think he was 3rd Battalion not sure the Company.
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06-22-2016, 14:00
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Area Commander
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No Man Left Behind / The Real Black Hawk Down
I understand that on June 28, 2016 the National Geographic Channel will air a special called No Man Left Behind.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...ack-hawk-down/
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