THE SCENE: Partly Cloudy, 63°F, Feels like 63°F, Humidity 62%, Wind 2mph from NNW
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- 19x SSH IC
- 19x LBAC Forward & Backwards IC
- 19x Squats
- Little of This, Little of That
THA-THANG:
Mogadishu Mile
4 rounds
19 CMU swings
19 CMU squats
19 CMU push-ups (one hand on CMU)
400 meter CMU carry
Always keep a hand on CMU, if you remove your hand from the CMU restart the round.
Descending bear crawls (start at 13 push-ups and reduce by one on each curb)
Elevens – flutter kicks to hammers to completion
MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The symbolism of the “Mogadishu Mile”
- You cover a total distance of one mile. Even though the soldiers actually walked between 2.5 and 3 miles depending on their starting point, it has become known as a “mile”. You carry your CMU during the run to symbolize the gear the soldiers carried.
- 19 reps – one honoring each soldier of Task Force Ranger killed during the battle and the day after.
- CMU Swings – as the soldiers held up their rifles the entire time
- CMU Squats – as they sought cover behind anything available
- CMU Push-ups – as they fell to the ground and had to get back up
- Don’t let the CMU go – symbolic for the dedication the soldiers showed towards their creed to ‘not leave a man behind
On October 3rd, 1993, members of the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force), supported by pilots from the 160th Aviation Regiment (Nightstalkers) and other SF units, went into the city of Mogadishu, Somalia to execute Operation ‘Gothic Serpent’, an attempt to apprehend key players in Mohammed Farrah Aidid’s dictatorship. While the initial mission went smoothly, things took a turn for the worse when two aircraft were shot down, forever coining the phrase ‘Blackhawk Down’. Determined to not leave a man behind, and also facing the task of securing the crash sites, Rangers and Deltas, scattered at several locations throughout the city, under heavy fire, most of them wounded, and low on supplies held their positions until the morning hours of October 4th.
As help from the 10th Mountain Division finally arrived, the armored vehicles could not accommodate all of the soldiers. At this point, some of them began their exit to a rally 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”.
As men we don’t always rely on our brothers we have a need. We try to do things on our own. These men show us that when we let our brothers have our backs we can accomplish many things.
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