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	Medal of Honor Recipients - Somalia
		Sergeant First Class Shughart and his team leader unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart pulled the pilot and the other crew members from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter which placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest standards of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit and the United States Army.
	www.history.army.mil /html/moh/somalia.html (738 words)

	FM 1
		Among the first are the primacy of the Constitution, the rule of law, and military subordination to civilian authority.
		Army norms of conduct also demand adherence to the laws, treaties, and conventions governing the conduct of war to which the United States is a party.
		Army leaders must act in both immediate conditions, which may be complex and dangerous, and over the long term, where the effects of decisions may not be readily apparent.
	www.army.mil /fm1/chapter1.html (8546 words)

	Shughart and Gordon
		Sergeant First Class Shughart and his team leader unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart pulled the pilot and the other crew members from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter which placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest standards of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit and the United States Army.
	www.snipercentral.com /gordon.htm (1236 words)

	Randy Shughart
		First Class Randall 'Randy' D. Shughart (August 13, 1958 – October 3, 1993) earned the Medal of Honor posthumously for actions in Operation Gothic Serpent — the operation that led to the Battle of Mogadishu.
		Sergeant First Class (SFC) Shughart, U.S. Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on 3 October 1993, while serving as a Sniper Team Member, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia.
		Shughart and his team leader unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/randy_shughart (664 words)

	Fallen Heroes « Through The Mind’s Eye
		Shughart provided precision sniper fire from the lead helicopter during an assault on the target building and at two helicopter crash sites, while being subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire.
		Shughart and his team leader unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
		Shughart used his rifle and side arm to kill an undetermined number of attackers while traveling the perimeter, protecting the downed crew.
	cerebralrevolution.wordpress.com /category/fallen-heroes (1042 words)

	Congressional Medal of Honor - Medals of Honor Awarded for Action in Somalia to Gary L. Gordon and Randall Shughart
		Sergeants Gordon and Shughart knew their own chances of survival were extremely bleak.
		Randall Shughart was raised on a dairy farm.
		Gary Gordon and Army Sgt. 1st Class Randall Shughart, 35, of Lincoln, Nebraska, were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in connection with the Mogadishu action, one of the worst military incidents involving U.S. troops since the Vietnam War.
	www.medalofhonor.com /Somalia.htm (1704 words)

	GovTrack: House Record: RANDALL D. SHUGHART POST OFFICE BUILDING (109-h20050927-26)
		Shughart and his team leader unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted for an on-the-ground rescue, well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart and his team leader, without hesitation, volunteered to be reinserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite knowing a growing number of combatants were closing in on the site.
		Randall Shughart continued his fire until he depleted his ammunition and was fatally wounded, but his actions saved the pilot's life.
	www.govtrack.us /congress/record.xpd?id=109-h20050927-26 (1732 words)

	Shughart
		Sergeant First Class Randall D. Shughart served as a Sniper Team leader in Task Force Ranger of the United States Special Operations Command in Mogadishu, Somalia during Operation Restore Hope.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart then pulled the pilot and the other crew members from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter which placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position.
		Sergeant First Class Shughart was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for this action.
	www.quad-a.org /Hall_of_Fame/personnel/shughart.htm (404 words)

	United States Marine Corps Scout/Sniper Association
		First Class Randall Shughart (left) and Master Sgt. Gary Gordon (right) were awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for their actions in Mogadishu in 1993.
		Gordon and Shughart were a sniper team for Delta Force and were assigned to over-watch the operation, engaging targets from the Blackhawk.
		Concerning Shughart and Gordan, Durant made the comment "Without a doubt, I owe my life to these two men and their bravery...Those guys came in when they had to know it was a losing battle.
	www.usmcscoutsniper.org /hogsden/moh_03oct1993.htm (626 words)

	Report of the Secretary of the Army (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Army and the nation were all reminded of that price in May 1994, when President Clinton presented the nation's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor, to the widows of Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randall D. Shughart, killed in action the previous October in Somalia.
		The Army's commitment to joint operations is one of the key points made to the commission appointed by Congress to examine the roles, missions, and functions of the military Services.
		Today's Army is a high quality force -- able to deploy rapidly, to fight, to sustain itself, and to win quickly with minimum casualties -- an army of courageous men and women willing to put their lives on the line for their country.
	www.dod.mil /execsec/adr95/army_5.html (2680 words)

	Medal of Honor - Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith
		On that day, Sergeant First Class Smith was engaged in the construction of a prisoner of war holding area when his tank task force was violently attacked by a company-sized enemy force.
		As the fight developed, Sergeant First Class Smith braved hostile enemy fire to personally engage the enemy with hand grenades and anti-tank weapons, and organized the evacuation of three wounded soldiers from an armored personnel carrier struck by a rocket-propelled grenade and a 60-mm mortar round.
		Sergeant First Class Smith's extraordinary heroism and uncommon valor are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 3rd Infantry Division, "Rock of the Marne," and the United States Army.
	www.army.mil /medalofhonor/smith/citation/halltranscript.html (2149 words)

	Don Singleton: Medal of Honor
		First Class Paul R. Smith, killed nearly two years ago defending his vastly outnumbered Army unit in a fierce battle with elite Iraqi troops for control of Baghdad's airport, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, administration officials said Tuesday.
		Sergeant Smith led a defense of a compound next to the airport against a much larger force of Special Republican Guard troops, manning a heavy machine gun, repeatedly firing and reloading three times before he was mortally wounded.
		Sergeant Smith's "extraordinary heroism and uncommon valor without regard to his own life in order to save others are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service," a draft of the medal citation says.
	donsingleton.blogspot.com /2005/03/medal-of-honor.html (677 words)

	Delta Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Airborne) (1st SFOD-D (A)), commonly known as Delta within the U.S. Army or Delta Force by the general public, (and known in the Pentagon officially as the Combat Applications Group) is a Special Operations Force (SOF) of the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC).
		Contrary to popular belief, Delta Force is believed to recruit its members solely from the Army, usually from the Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and the Rangers.
		The Army Rangers in the film, elite by their own right, have the standard "high and tight" haircuts, yet the Delta Force operators are seen to be sporting much longer styles with side burns, unshaven faces, and non-military issue helmets and boots from an REI store.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delta_Forces (1099 words)

	Gary Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		U.S. Army Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor for actions in Operation Gothic Serpent (October 3, 1993).
		Master Sergeant Gordon (MSG), U.S. Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on October 3, 1993 while serving as Sniper Team Leader, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia.
		Equipped with only his sound-suppressed CAR-15 and Colt M1911.45 caliber pistol, Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members of Super 6-4.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gary_Gordon (597 words)

	M21 (rifle)
		The M21 remained the Army’s sniper rifle until 1988 when it was replaced by the M24 SWS (Sniper Weapon System) bolt action rifle.
		We should note that the two individuals portrayed are the only recipients of the Medal of Honor awarded for action occurring since the Vietnam War (numerous Medals have been awarded or reinstated retroactively since Vietnam for service in actions prior to and including Vietnam).
		The individuals were: Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randall D. Shughart.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/m/m2/m21__rifle_.html (354 words)

	BLACKFIVE: Should There Be A Shughart High School?
		Sergeant Shughart and his team leader unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
		Sergeant Shughart pulled the pilot and the other crew members from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter which placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position.
		Shughart is further honored in North Carolina at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, in Louisiana in a military training town of 27 multistory buildings, in Colorado with a hall at Fort Carson, and in the best free enterprise tradition of America, by SOKO Toys, which has produced a G.I. Joe-like doll of Shughart.
	www.blackfive.net /main/2005/03/should_there_be.html (4912 words)

	Medal of Honor - Wikipedia
		Wenig später wurde die Medaille auch von der US Army eingeführt, und 1904 durch ein eigenes Band ergänzt, welches ihre Waffengattung kennzeichnete.
		Die US Air Force erhielt auch ein eigenes Band, jedoch erst im Jahre 1965.
		Zuletzt wurde die Medal of Honor an US Army Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith für seine Verdienste während der Invasion des Iraks 2003 vergeben.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medal_of_Honor (347 words)

	United States Military Academy at West Point
		We've gone from Vietnam to the Balkans, from a draft Army to the volunteer Army and all that entails, from Desert 1 to Desert Storm, from a strategy of massive retaliation to containment and, finally, to engagement and enlargement.
		To do what Nathan Forrest reminded us so many years ago, to "get there firstest with the mostest." And, the second aspect is to be able to have the mental agility to "think quick" and to turn inside an enemy's decision cycle and be able to checkmate him everywhere he turns.
		You will lead remarkable men and women, people like Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart, who, in October '93 in Mogadishu, Somalia, "fast roped to sudden death" because a fellow soldier was on the ground.
	www.usma.edu /Class/1999/GradSpeech99.asp (2249 words)

	ninme: Wanted: Valium
		Sergeant Shughart provided precision sniper fires from the lead helicopter during an assault on a building and at two helicopter crash sites, while subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade fires.
		The Navy has named a ship and a class of ships in honor of Shughart, the Army War College in Carlisle has named a residence hall in his honor, and the mayor of Harrisburg has named a street in his honor.
		Shughart is further honored in North Carolina at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, in Louisiana in a military training town of 27 multistory buildings, in Colorado with a hall at Fort Carson, and in the best free enterprise tradition of America, by SOKO Toys, which has produced a G.I. Joe-like doll of Shughart.
	www.ninme.com /archives/2005/03/wanted_valium.html (627 words)

	Medal of Honor Recipients on Film: Gary I. Gordon and Randall D. Shughart
		US military forces were among those sent in by the United Nations in 1992 to relieve the famine, but food distribution was hampered and at times halted by interference from the most powerful Somali warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
		Durant was held captive for 11 days until the former US Ambassador to Somalia returned with a message of "friendly advice" to be relayed to Aidid that more military action would follow unless Durant was released.
		The depiction of Gordon's and Shughart's acts of heroism comprised perhaps 10 minutes out of a 2 1/2 hour movie (roughly the same proportion of time as the Medal of Honor-earning acts of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
	www.users.voicenet.com /~lpadilla/blackhawk.html (1366 words)

	Gary Gordon
		United States Army Master Sgt Gary Ivan Gordon (August 30, 1960 – October 3, 1993) earned the Medal of Honor posthumously for actions in Operation Gothic Serpent — the operation that led to the Battle of Mogadishu.
		Equipped with only his sniper rifle and a pistol, Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members.
		The U.S. Navy officially named roll-on/roll-off ship USNS Gordon (T-AKR 296) in a ceremony at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 4, 1996, at Newport News, Virginia.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/gary_gordon (676 words)

	Medal of Honor Late Spring 1997
		This is the first of the reports on Medal of Honor recipients.
		When Master Sergeant Gordon learned that ground forces were not immediately available to secure the second crash site, he and Sgt. First Class Shughart unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site.
		After his third request to be inserted, Sergeants Gordon and Shughart received permission to perform the volunteer mission.
	www.theblessingsofliberty.com /medal_of_honor/latespring1997.html (519 words)

	Special Report \| The Medal of Honor
		In February 1861, the first Medal of Honor action in U.S. history occurred in Arizona along a hardscrabble stretch of desert called Apache Pass.
		U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin "voluntarily took command of troops and attacked and defeated hostile Indians he met on the way.
		Master Sergeant Gordon immediately pulled the pilot and the other crewmembers from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter that placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position.
	www.azcentral.com /news/specials/veterans/articles/cmh.html (671 words)

	Philadelphia Online \| Blackhawk Down
		First Lt. Larry Perino, who received the Bronze Star with Valor Device for leading Rangers to the first crash site, is now a captain with the Ranger regiment at Fort Benning.
		First Class Matt Rierson, the D-boy whose steadiness under fire helped bring the Lost Convoy home, and who helped lead the giant convoy back out into the night, was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.
		First Class Randy Shughart, a Delta soldier killed defending the crew of Super 64, the Medal of Honor.
	inquirer.philly.com /packages/somalia/dec14/wherenow.asp (1637 words)

	Paul Ray Smith, Sergeant First Class, United States Army
		Sergeant Smith was leading about three dozen men who were using a courtyard next to a watchtower to build a temporary jail for captured enemy prisoners.
		Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith of Tampa left his wife and two children to go to the war in Iraq.
		Army officials said he climbed atop an armored vehicle in place of an injured crew member and held off the enemy with a.50-caliber machine gun before taking a bullet to the head.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /prsmith-03.htm (5482 words)

	US Department of Defense: SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shughart (T-AKR 295) honors Sergeant First Class Randall D. Shughart ofNewville, Pennsylvania, posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for actionsin Somalia in October of 1993.
		Yano (T-AKR 297) honors Sergeant First Class Rodney J.T. Yano of Kailua Kona,Hawaii, posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in Vietnam in1969.
		Army Chief of Staff General Gordon Sullivan said: "The LMSR will be thecenterpiece of America's power projection sealift into the next century.
	calbears.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_pden/is_199502/ai_1970876131 (515 words)

	CLINTON: "I Didn't Kill the Kid" (a must read regarding Somalia) [Free Republic]
		Eventually, after Clinton had sat on the paper work for eight weeks, two of the slain soldiers, Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart, were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
		Inside the office, the father of Sergeant Shughart refused to shake Clinton's hand, then look him in the face and calmly told him that he was responsible for his son's death, that it was for no purpose, that he was not fit to be President, and not fit to be Commander in Chief.
		Since I may be the only person living who can give a first hand account of what actually transpired, I am obligated by my love for my country and my sense of duty to divulge what actually happened and make it a matter of record.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3933385e7976.htm (4521 words)

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