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One of D-Day’s most famous, heroic assaults may have been unnecessary Pointe du Hoc, France – Seventy-five years ago Thursday, a battalion of elite U.S. Army Rangers scaled the 100-foot promontory here overlooking Omaha Beach, with nothing more than ropes and rickety ladders. As enemy gunfire and grenades rained down, […]
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Black Hawk Down / Christian Ranger / Jeff Struecker / Ranger Valor June 22, 2017
READ MOREArmy Ranger Hall of Famer Jeff Struecker: ‘My faith gave me this sense of peace’ Jeff Struecker was an elite Army soldier, once part of a two-man team that won the Best Ranger competition. Next Wednesday, the former soldier who was involved in the Battle of Mogadishu and immortalized in […]
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Army Rangers get top valor awards for heroism on deadly day in Afghanistan The situation was dire: A team of Army Rangers had swooped into an enemy compound in southern Afghanistan, only to find that the area had been rigged with numerous booby traps. At least 10 improvised explosive devices […]
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Black Hawk Down / Jeff Struecker / Ranger Valor October 4, 2013
READ MORE20 years after Black Hawk Down, a ‘Return to Mogadishu’ Twenty years ago this week, former Army Ranger Jeff Struecker made his peace with death while fighting in the Battle of Mogadishu – better known as Black Hawk Down, which led to a popular book and movie of the same […]
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Black Hawk Down / Jeff Struecker / Ranger Valor / Rangers Deployed September 29, 2013
READ MORESgt. Jeff Struecker Remembers Black Hawk Down in New Documentary Sergeant Jeff Struecker was 24 years old when he led a squad of men through Mogadishu in an assault mission that quickly took a horrific turn. In an interview with ‘This Week,’ Struecker remembers the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu and […]
