{"id":57080,"date":"2014-12-12T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57080"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:16:54","slug":"somalia-streamer-for-10th-mountain-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57080","title":{"rendered":"Somalia streamer for 10th Mountain Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57081\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Somalia-streamer-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Somalia streamer\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Somalia-streamer-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Somalia-streamer-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Somalia-streamer-334x333.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Somalia-streamer.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The deployments to Somalia ended more than twenty years ago (August 1992 &#8211; March 1994) when US forces abandoned the failed state. I was at Fort Drum when the deployments began for the 10th Mountain Division. They went from a full stop to a sprint in the space of a few days to get troops to the shitiest of shitholes. But, it wasn&#8217;t until this last Monday that the division was finally recognized for their participation in what turned from a humanitarian mission to a combat operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20141209\/NEWS03\/141208650\">Watertown Times<\/a>, the Division was awarded a battle streamer for the division colors for Operation Restore Hope;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Secretary of the Army John] McHugh said he first learned the conflict wasn\u2019t recognized on the Army flag when he was approached at a West Point event by a veteran asking about the omission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said \u2018I didn\u2019t know it wasn\u2019t,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Researching the issue, he attributed it to unidentified international political issues at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gave me a chance to correct an overlooked issue,\u201d Mr. McHugh said.<\/p>\n<p>The Somalia campaign streamer will be the 188th to be affixed to the Army flag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two 10th Mountain Division soldiers were killed during the operation; SGT Cornell Houston and PFC James Martin were in the 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry when they took part in the rescue of members of Task Force Ranger who were pinned down in Mogadishu on October 3, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Luddite4Change for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deployments to Somalia ended more than twenty years ago (August 1992 &#8211; March 1994) when &hellip; <a title=\"Somalia streamer for 10th Mountain Division\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57080\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somalia streamer for 10th Mountain Division<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}