30 years ago the Battle of Mogadishu occurred in a far off corner of the world. Members of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force), supported by pilots from the 160th Aviation Regiment and other Special Forces units went into Mogadishu, Somalia to execute Operation Gothic Serpent. When the mission took a turn, two aircrafts were shot down, forever coining the phrase Blackhawk Down.
The soldiers were determined to leave no man behind. Rangers and Delta Force soldiers eventually found help from the 10th Mountain Division, the armored vehicles could not accommodate all of the soldiers. At this point, some of them began their exit to a rallying point on foot, under heavy fire, dehydrated and sleep-deprived, all of them wounded in one way or another. This has become known as the “Mogadishu Mile.”
