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2023-10-04 -Land of the Free

'We're human': Delta Force veteran reflects on Battle of Mogadishu 30 years later

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-04 00:27|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 In memory MSG Tim "Griz" Martin a good friend who I worked with from 1988-1993.

To me this was just another pointless Politically PR conceived military operation, that got a good friend and several people I worked with killed.

My questions to this day.
What did being in Somalia accomplish or charge?
Are Somalians any better off today?
Are they better housed or better fed?
Did it bring peace to the area?

BTW: Is there is any truth to the rumor that parts of Aidid's body were "recovered" after his August 1996 death and are housed in North Carolina location ☺ ?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-10-04 05:17|| 2023-10-04 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, this was 1993, when the deep state seized the reins and began riding us like a donkey. The purpose of war? It doesn't have a purpose. It merely needs to *exist*.

"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous."

"The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."
-- Orwell

Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-10-04 05:32|| 2023-10-04 05:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Months prior to the deployment of US personnel, the media was breathlessly covering the famine. I told the others in the office that they're trying to suck us into another adventure that wouldn't turn out well. It was the old William Randolph Hearst “Please remain [in Cuba]. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-04 08:38|| 2023-10-04 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 What they need to do is make movie of Walt Shumate career. To many he was the soul of S.O.T.F. down to his last days at his house on Dashland Ave. off Yakin rd. in Fayettville.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-10-04 10:05|| 2023-10-04 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 The weirdest part of that whole Somalia mess was watching the Marines land on a beach occupied by CNN reporters while a Perry-class frigate did laps off shore with its gun at the ready.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-10-04 12:00|| 2023-10-04 12:00|| Front Page Top

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