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Several soldiers in desert camouflage look into the distant sky, where four Black Hawk helicopters are flying.

Infantry Regiment

Army soldiers of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, watch helicopter activity over Mogadishu, Somalia, Oct. 3, 1993. Later the same day and throughout the night, the battalion's A and C companies were part of a rescue convoy assembled for nearly 100 Rangers who had become trapped in the city after two Black Hawks were shot down.

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