Operation Gothic Serpent

made in the mission plan. The operation was supposed to be easy and go smoothly but like most plans things didn’t go as they planned. If there wasn’t any mistakes made during this operation then there wouldn’t have been a movie made after it. The movie got its title because during the operation there were two black hawk helicopter shot down and most of the time the soldiers were trying to get to the wreckage. The name of this operation was called Operation Gothic Serpent. This battle

slaughter of innocent civilians. The Somali National Alliance (SNA) led by Mohamed Farrah Aidid caused most of the killing and needed to be stopped. The SNA made significantly hampered the success of foreign aid, demanding a task force to stop SNA operations. The battle for Mogadishu resulted in the capture of Mohamed Aidid’s top planners and advisors. Eventually the regime fell and resulted in the clans fighting each other over resources and

Mogadishu also known as Day of the Rangers was part of operation Gothic Serpent. This fight is also called the “First Battle of Mogadishu” to differentiate between later battles in the city like the “Second Battle of Mogadishu” in 2006. The joint force sent into Mogadishu to eliminate the self- proclaimed President Mohamed Farrah Aidid was a team comprised of various elite Special Forces. These special force units were from Air Force special operations, Navy SEALS, and Army Delta forces. As a team they

Introduction The modern world has many misconstrued ideas about Satan and his demons that are not in line with Jesus' teachings in Scripture. Today the world sees Satan in an almost comical way, if they believe in him at all. There is such a lack of belief in anything spiritually supernatural that the idea of demons is less acceptable to today's society than the idea of ghosts. In Jesus' time, this was not the case; people were well aware of Satan and his activities. Jesus often had to deal with

Alexander Lucero AP English 12 Yu 5.17.12 Homosexuality Portrayed in Literature: Threat To Yourself and Those Around You The Victorian era and Elizabethan era had many homophobic attributes, just as today's society does. Gothic writers of the Victorian Age played off of the fear and immorality of homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them, making men faint like