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 From the gang at Special Forces Gear! On or about 3 March 1990 Liberia was in a state of civil war. Field Marshal Prince Johnson, the outlaw Charles Taylor, and the self proclaimed President Samuel Doe were trying to converge on Monrovia to usurp their own power base. The DAO in Monrovia Colonel David Staley) and we had to at that time to figure out who was creating chaos, terrorism and insurrection in the city, including many FSN's who worked at the American Embassy. That was one of my my jobs. Without the help of the boys at the "Ranch", our sisters across the river in Langley, and the DAO, we would have had a clusterfuck but we created an RST that worked despite the chaos and constant rounds of gun fire heard around the city. This RST was the groundwork for the susequent evacuations to the USS Saipan and other vessels. One time, I was stopped by some local Doe armed guerilla supporters who were kids(17 years old) and they asked for my Id. I was in an embassy vehicle with dip plates and they still thought we were the enemy,whatever that was. After negotiating with them them for a while, they pulled us out put AK-47's to our heads, and I had to bargain for my life. It seemed ironic that we were the ones trying to help the Liberians yet we were the ones facing this situation. They fired several rounds near us and around us to get infromation. I somehow(to this day do not know how) got these kids to back off and let us pass. But I got out of it by reverting to my training believing in myself and most importantly tryin to protect the local driver, Joseph Korbiah, who I knew very well and had a family. I was nothing but a young single guy with no attachments. What got to me was the fact that I may have had to take out kids who probably did not have ammo in their old rifles. So all you boys over there now remember you are never alone when it come to these types of things, particularly urban warfare which is the most difficult for many reasons. You have friends all over the world who wish you come home soon. God Bless you and the United States of America. MACDOG out |
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