War: Persian Gulf War, 1991 Branch: Marine Corps Unit: 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion Service Location: Persian Gulf; Greece; Italy; Korea; Spain; Belize; Honduras; Panama, El Salvador; Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); France; Parris Island, South Carolina; Camp...
The ISIS-claimed bombing of a restaurant in Syria on Wednesday (January 16, 2019) killed an Army Green Beret with four children, a former Navy SEAL working for the Pentagon’s intelligence agency and a Navy linguist, the Pentagon announced Friday. The servicemembers...
War: Persian Gulf War, 1991 Branch: Marine Corps Unit: Brigade Service Support Group 7, 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade Service Location: Quantico and Little Creek, Virginia; Camp Pendleton, California; Jubail, Saudi Arabia; Fort Sam Houston, Texas Rank: Captain Like...
Equipped with only his sniper rifle and a pistol, Sergeant First Class Shughart and his team leader Gary Gordon, 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...
25 years ago, 33-year-old Gary Gordon and 35-year-old Randy Shughart, both members of the Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, were providing air cover for Rangers in Operation Gothic Serpent in Mogadishu when a fellow Blackhawk helicopter was...
