I will NEVER understand why the hell we ever let a single Somali into this country. In case you forgot or just don't know, here's the true story of BLACK HAWK DOWN. The story of Mogadishu Oct. 3–4, 1993. 🇺🇸 ▪️ U.S. forces were in Somalia on a mission that started as famine relief. Warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's militia was stealing the food and killing peacekeepers. ▪️ On Oct. 3, Army Rangers and Delta Force raided a building near the Bakara Market to grab 2 of Aidid's top lieutenants. It was supposed to take about an hour. ▪️ They got their targets. Then the city exploded. Thousands of armed militia and civilians poured into the streets, and women and children were used as human shields. ▪️ A rocket-propelled grenade hit Black Hawk Super 6-1. It crashed, and both pilots were killed. ▪️ Minutes later, Super 6-4 was hit too. It went down a mile away with no ground troops nearby. ▪️ Delta snipers MSG Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart asked three times to be dropped at the second crash. They were finally approved on the 3rd request. ▪️ The 2 of them held off a mob of hundreds to protect the wounded pilot, CW3 Michael Durant. They fought until they ran out of ammo and were overrun and killed. Both received the Medal of Honor, the first awarded since Vietnam. ▪️ The mob killed the rest of Super 6-4's crew. Durant was beaten and taken hostage. ▪️ The Rangers and Delta operators were pinned down overnight, fighting street by street. Wounded men bled out waiting for help that couldn't get through. ▪️ Weeks before the raid, commanders had asked for tanks and armored vehicles. President Bill Clinton's Defense Secretary, Les Aspin, denied the request. With no armor of their own, the trapped men had to wait for borrowed Pakistani and Malaysian vehicles to reach them. Aspin resigned that December. ▪️ A rescue convoy, including Pakistani and Malaysian armored vehicles, finally broke through before dawn. Troops who couldn't fit in the vehicles ran out on foot under fire in what became known as the "Mogadishu Mile." ▪️ 18 Americans were killed and 73 were wounded. Hundreds of Somalis died. ▪️ Then came the images the world never forgot. Mobs stripped the bodies of American soldiers, beat them, cheered over them, and dragged them through the streets. ▪️ Durant was held for 11 days. He was beaten and filmed as a captive, then released. ▪️ Within months, the U.S. pulled out of Somalia. Never forget the 18 who didn't come home, or the 2 men who chose to die so a brother might live. Look at the faces of these absolute SAVAGES as they drag the dead body of Staff Sgt. William Cleveland through the streets of Mogadishu. ▪️ His body was stripped and his feet were bound with rope. ▪️ The mob dragged him through the dirt streets like a trophy. ▪️ Look at the faces. They're laughing, cheering, and raising their fists. One man swings a stick over the body. Children stand close enough to touch him. ▪️ He wasn't a combatant on the ground anymore. He was a dead man, and they wanted the world to watch. DEPORT. THEM. ALL.