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Operation Gothic Serpent - Wikipedia

Operation Gothic Serpent

1993 United States-led military operation conducted in Mogadishu, Somalia

Operation Gothic Serpent
Part of the Somali Civil War and the UNOSOM II mission

Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment in Somalia, 1993.
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
William F.

Garrison

Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Units involved
B Co., 3rd Bn., 75th Ranger
C Sqn, 1st SFOD-D
1st Bn., 160th SOAR
DEVGRU
24th STS
ISA		SNA militia
Strength
441 troops
8 MH-60 Black Hawks
4 AH-6
4 MH-6 Little Birds
3 OH-58 Kiowas
1 P-3 Orion
HMMWVs
5-ton trucks		 Several thousand militiamen and volunteers
Multiple technicals
Casualties and losses

[15]
1 killed
7 wounded

2 wounded

6 October:
1 killed, 13 wounded


Est.

(combatant and civilian):

  • 315 killed
  • 812 wounded[17]
  • 24 captured (3 killed, 1 wounded during extraction)
  • Mult. technicals disabled/destroyed

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