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Early on January 25, 2012, two dozen Navy SEALs parachuted from a C-130 Hercules twelve miles north of the Somali town of Adado, Galguduud, where pirates were holding the hostages with the intention of ransoming them. [3] The SEALs then traveled by foot from their drop zone, attacked the compound, and engaged the pirates, killing all nine of ...
Jessica Buchanan, was an aid worker for the Danish Refugee Council's demining unit, alongside Dane Poul Hagen Thisted. On October 25, 2011, they were abducted in the north-central Galkayo area. Gunmen from the Al-Shabaab Islamist group were alleged to be responsible.
The SEALs called the dog off and after the dog got safely out of the way. The SEALs threw hand grenades into the ditch where the fighter was waiting to ambush the SEALs. The SEALs then moved up to clear the ditch. One Navy SEAL went forward further to investigate and found another dead enemy fighter with an AK-47 and chest rack. After ...
Two U.S. Navy SEALs drowned as they tried to climb aboard a ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen because of glaring training failures, a military probe of the January deaths found.
Two U.S. Navy SEALs drowned during a nighttime boat raid off the coast of Somalia last January because their personal gear was too heavy, causing them to sink almost immediately upon hitting the ...
The Navy on Monday identified two SEALs who were declared dead after they were lost at sea during a nighttime raid near Somalia.. Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers, 37 ...
Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted: Somalian Pirates: Galkayo, Somalia 32 (Buchanan), 60 (Thisted) Rescued Two individuals who had been working on a demining project with the Danish Refugee Council; both were kidnapped by Somali pirates in Galkayo. The two were held for ransom, but were rescued by United States Navy SEALs on on January 25 ...
But the Pentagon does not formally recognize moral injury, and the Navy refuses to use the term, referring instead to “inner conflict.” “That’s a euphemism,” snorted retired Marine Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Jones, a decorated combat veteran who has had to raise his own money for research into combat stress, moral injury and treatment for ...