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Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart
October 3, 1993. Mogadishu.
Two Delta snipers looked down from a Black Hawk at a crash site the city was already closing on.
Super Six-Four was down.
The crew was wounded.
Ground forces could not reach them in time.
Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart asked to be put on the ground. Denied.
They asked again. Denied.
Two men could not hold that ground, and everyone on the radio knew it. They asked a third time. This time the answer was yes.
They fast-roped in with sniper rifles, sidearms, and not enough ammunition. They pulled Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant from the wreck and set a perimeter they already knew they could not keep. Shughart was killed. Gordon ran dry, handed Durant a rifle and the last rounds, said “good luck,” and went back in with his pistol. He was killed minutes later. Durant lived. He later said he owed his life to those two men.
They were the first Medals of Honor awarded since Vietnam. Awarded posthumously, May 23, 1994.
They did not go down because they thought they would win.
They went down because the men on the ground were still alive.
Never forget MSG Gary I. Gordon and SFC Randall D. Shughart.
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