The Black Hawk helicopter’s twin 7.62 millimeter mini-gatling guns blazed away at the insurgents shooting down on the American Rangers from roof tops in the downtown Bakaara Market area of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. As the chopper flared out in the middle of the main drag it cleared the roof tops of enemy fighters in…
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Marc Good, who fought in ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident, tells his story
Several years after graduating from Venice High School in 1988 Marc Good joined the Army. He beame a medic in Bravo Company, Third Army Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. In 1993 B-Company, Third Battalion went to Somalia in the Horn of Africa as part of a United Nations contingent to enforce international law. Their job:…
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