Posted on 07/19/2022 9:02:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A medical training exercise shifted into real-world application Monday for Fort Bragg soldiers as a passenger airplane crashed in front of them in Mogadishu, Somalia...
They are part of the Maneuver Adviser Team 2231, which is working with the Somali National army’s Danab Brigade...
...[T]he soldiers were medically training a platoon of Somalia’s Danab commandos when a Jubba Airlines airplane with about 30 passengers crashed at about 10:30 a.m. Monday at the nearby Mogadishu International Airport.
According to the news release, the soldiers were medically training a platoon of Somalia’s Danab commandos when a Jubba Airlines airplane with about 30 passengers crashed at about 10:30 a.m. Monday at the nearby Mogadishu International Airport.
The commandos and Fort Bragg soldiers rushed into action climbing a razor-wire fence to reach the plane, which skidded to a halt upside down just meters from their training location, according to the news release.
As the Danab commandos rushed toward the aircraft to pull injured passengers, Fort Bragg soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Caleb Vanvoorhis, Staff Sgt. JoAnna Baxter and Staff Sgt. Taylor Palmer established a triage area and helped local emergency responders evacuate 16 injured passengers to nearby medical facilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at fayobserver.com ...
We are training our enemy.
Why do we have soldiers in moga-f’n-dishu?
What the F are we doing in Somalia?
I don’t know, but I hope there are no Blackhawk helicopters there.
AGAIN!
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