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Forgotten bastards: Battle of Mogadishu’s unsung heroes await honors
Army Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA kaleidoscopic hail of tracer fire swept across the alley — green, red, orange — casting a neon...
Black Hawk Down: The Mogadishu Operation
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 12 months agoUS Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion delivers aid to the village of Maleel (January 1993). Mogadishu. Just the name itself is enough to send a ripple of...
Silver Star Awarded to Army Ranger Who Came to Aid of Fellow Troops During Battle of Mogadishu
Military.com via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMore than three decades after his actions during the infamous Battle of Mogadishu, retired Army Maj....
Somali troops overpower militants to end hotel siege
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMOGADISHU (Reuters) -Somali security forces stormed a hotel in the capital on Monday to end a near day-long siege by al Shabaab militants who killed nine...
New Somali president calls for reconciliation as U.S. troops return
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSomalia's new president has applauded the return of U.S. troops to help fight a deadly insurgency...
Ceremony marks unheralded acts of forgotten Black Hawk Down platoon
Army Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe two dozen men sat patiently in blue plastic chairs on warming asphalt. The veterans of battle...
18 countries sent sharpshooters to a US military base in Germany to see who has the best sniper team...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCompetitors zero their rifles during the 2022 European Best Sniper Competition on August 4.US...
How New Jersey Guardsmen Thwarted One of the Largest Somali Terror Attacks in Decades
Military.com via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt was fall 2019, and there was a near certainty that the American-run Baledogle Military Airfield...
'They are on the run': Somalia leads fight against al-Shabab
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEnough was enough. For 13 years, extremists with al-Qaida’s East Africa affiliate had controlled...
Fire Watch: Inside the Fight by National Guardsmen to Repel a Terrorist Attack in Somalia
Military.com via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn late 2019, an explosion rumbled across a remote vista in Somalia, disturbing the low brush and...