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Topic Started: Jun 23 2005, 05:31 AM (525 Views)
ghost 5
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I was wondering what does everyone think about what happend in Mogadishu, Somalia?
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Sparks
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What did happen there?
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Jam.
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You mean the thing Black hawk down was based on?

I think the US Troops did a great job of coming out with only a few losses.
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They did well but it could have been much better in many cases.
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ghost 5
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jamst3r
Jun 24 2005, 01:27 AM
You mean the thing Black hawk down was based on?

I think the US Troops did a great job of coming out with only a few losses.

Yeh that whole thing. I think that they underestimated the Somalians...but they where brave and courageous to have fought like that and not give up.....they where even braver to have gone back into the city.
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doug05257
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Our troops were WAY outnumbered. They only expected light resistance, but were hit with heavy fire. I don't know much more about it, but if the movie was accurate at all, the entire town was out to kill them.
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doug05257
Jun 29 2005, 05:27 PM
Our troops were WAY outnumbered. They only expected light resistance, but were hit with heavy fire. I don't know much more about it, but if the movie was accurate at all, the entire town was out to kill them.

Yeh movie was pretty accurate. But for the number lost and wounded we killed more of them than us......but we lost four choppers and about 18 or 19 soldiers that day.
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GDF
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Hey Ghost, been a while since I saw you post.

They did what had to be done, and they took a small amount of casualities consdering how many people they were up against, plenty of them were armed heavily.
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Jun 29 2005, 05:35 PM
Hey Ghost, been a while since I saw you post.

They did what had to be done, and they took a small amount of casualities consdering how many people they were up against, plenty of them were armed heavily.

Yo GDF wassup?

Yeh they did a fine job.....personally I think they all should have recieved a Silver Star or Medal of Honor.
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Can you explain a little bit what's going on here? I don't know much about this subject. lol
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ForceEight
Jun 30 2005, 02:49 AM
Can you explain a little bit what's going on here? I don't know much about this subject. lol

Ditto. :|

I think I might know what your talking about; I saw a short movie clip in class once that sounds like it was a similar situation, but I don't even know what war they were talking about :ermm:
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GDF
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In 1993 the US sent in Delta Force because some war lord in Somalia was ambushing UN convoys with supplies meant for small villages. Something along those lines.
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Jun 30 2005, 08:41 AM
In 1993 the US sent in Delta Force because some war lord in Somalia was ambushing UN convoys with supplies meant for small villages. Something along those lines.

hehehe.........left out a few things.

In 1993 the US sent in Delta Force and Army Rangers to arrest a warlord named Muhammed farer (sp?) Aidid. His militia and country where in the middle of a civil war and his militia was was stealing supplies ment for civilians and if the civilians didn't allow them to take it they where killed on sight.

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military victory, political failure.

We succeeded in our objective, to rescue hostages, and get Aidid, but Clinton handled it poorly, internationally.
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2shot
Jun 30 2005, 10:18 AM
military victory, political failure.

We succeeded in our objective, to rescue hostages, and get Aidid, but Clinton handled it poorly, internationally.

Yup very true....but we still kicked some major ***
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