Everything about Operation United Shield totally explained
Operation United Shield was the name given to the
US military operation of evacuating all remaining 6,200
UN peacekeeping troops from
Somalia from January to March of
1995, the troops were made up of Americans,
Pakistanis and
Egyptians. (
Indian,
Zimbabwean, and
Malaysian units had already disengaged in late
1994).
General Peay of the
United States Army and
Lieutenant Gen. Anthony C. Zinni (Commander of the
I Marine Expeditionary Force) were given command of the operation which saw the last troops brought to
Mogadishu, and then entirely disengaged. They arranged to use 4,000 troops to cover the withdrawal and prevent further casualties, and a sea-borne coalition was made up of American, Italian, Pakistani, French, British, and Malaysian naval vessels through the
Indian Ocean.
The most critical stage of Operation United Shield began when the ground combat element (GCE) of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted an amphibious landing on "green beach," near the Mogadishu international airport. The infantry element, Kilo Company of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, (31st MEU) and Battalion Landing Team 3/1, conducted their initial landing in the early morning hours of March 1, 1995, and within hours the bulk of the infantry battalion had passed through the United Nation’s perimeter and secured the New Port shipping facility and an area known as "No Man's Land", between the New Port and the UN-occupied Mogadishu International Airport, north of green beach.
A success, the operation saw the safe withdrawal of all 6,200 troops, as well as over a hundred combat vehicles, without a single UN or US casualty.
Naval Ships Involved in the Sea-Borne Patrol
American
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