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Title: 20 years ago, 2 men gave there life trying to save another
Post by: shooter on October 03, 2013, 12:21:57 PM

  October, 3, 2013 is the sad 20th anniversary of the deaths of Master Sergeant Gary Ivan Gordon (August 30, 1960 – October 3, 1993) and Sergeant First Class Randall David Shughart (August 13, 1958–October 3, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. This pair of Delta Force snipers were both posthumous recipients of the Medal of Honor. They heroically asked to be inserted to rescue Warrant Officer Michael Durant, knowing well that their chances of survival were incredibly slim. Together, they accounted for at least 25 Somali KIAs before they died. The events of October 3, 1993 were memorialized in the movie Black Hawk Down.

    be a good day to watch , Blackhawk Down today--

Title: Re: 20 years ago, 2 men gave there life trying to save another
Post by: NENick on October 04, 2013, 10:43:50 AM

It's hard to believe that occurred 20 years ago. Thankfully, hopefully, none of us will ever have to know what it is like to step off of a chopper like that. Those guys could see what they were going into, yet they went anyway.

Unfortunately, the men that were abandoned in Benghazi had no such heroes to come to their rescue.

Please note that as brutal as the movie Blackhawk Down is, it has been watered down. Remember the scene where the pilot is clubbed with the butt of the rifle after being captured? That wasn't really a rifle. It was the crew-chief's severed arm.