Essex (LHD 2) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1995

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bullets whizzed overhead. This was the first time Mogadishu airport had been under Somali control since the 15th MEU(SOC) landed ashore in December 1992. It ' s a shame, said Sgt. Arturo Montejano of Oakdale, Calif., from his antitank light armored vehicle (LAV-AT). overlooking the area. Instead of coming together and building things up peacefully, they seem to just tear everything up, Montejano added. Montejano and other Marines of Company D. 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. have been on watch since replacing the Italian Marines in the middle of the night. The operation is not complete to me, said Sgt. Giovanne Pulisci of the San Marcos Marines. 1 feel we could have done more, Pulisci said. He really wanted to see Somalia back on its feet again. At times the only thing separating the Marines from the Somalis was some concertina and a few hundred feet of ground. Throughout the operation, loudspeakers broadcast warnings and warning shots were fired whenever a Somali threat came too close to the Marines positions. More than once rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launchers were visible. When one Somali male carrying an RPG ignored verbal and gunfire warnings and raised his weapon to fire at Marines, Marine snipers quickly took action. At one point during the looting, Somali clan leader. General Mohammed Farah Aidid, came to assess the situation that had developed at the airport. , ' •» ' ir - P-

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