Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
4%
1 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
68/100
Fox News's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
World
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Former Army Ranger James Lechner shined a light on the brutal Battle of Mogadishu.
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Lechner → shin → Mogadishu
The Battle of Mogadishu (commonly known as Black Hawk Down) was a brutal fight in Somalia that started on October 3, 1993 and carried into the next day.
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that → know → day
A small group of Army Rangers, Delta Force operators, 24th STS members and a few SEAL Team 6 commandos were sent to Somalia to stop a genocide being carried out.
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group → send → genocide
What started as a capture and extraction mission turned into hell on Earth after multiple helicopters were hit by Somalia fighters.
Army Ranger describes being shot in the Battle of Mogadishu.
There have been a lot of stories that have come out about the battle since 1993, including a hit movie starring Josh Hartnett.
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that → start → Hartnett
Lechner was a member of the 75th Rangers in Somalia and suffered a gruesome gunshot wound to his tibia.
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Lechner → suffer → tibia
The details sound horrifying.
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details → sound → ?
Blew out my tibia, and as you know, when bone gets hit, it becomes shrapnel.
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it → blow → tibia
So that shredded my leg.
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that → shred → leg
The bullet went down, came out above my ankle.
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bullet → go → ankle
I had a grapefruit sized hole in the front of my leg and the bullet had shredded the whole left side," Lechner explained in a recent interview with Shawn Ryan.
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Lechner → have → Ryan
He continued, "One of the Delta [Force] medics...came running out of the building, and now there's firing bullets just cracking down the street continually.
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One → continue → street
Came through that fire, grabbed me by my vest, dragged me inside the building that they had fortified.
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they → come → that
It became the casualty collection point.
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It → become → ?
He gets me in there.
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He → get → me
So, I had arterial bleeding and blood was just extremely profuse going on."
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blood → have → bleeding
Lechner said the scene was so intense that the blood on the floor was "two inches deep."
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blood → say → floor
You can watch his full comments in the video below starting around 1:39:00, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
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me → watch → David.Hookstead@outkick.com
Ultimately, 18 Americans were killed in the Battle of Mogadishu and dozens more were wounded.
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dozens → kill → Mogadishu
Delta Force snipers Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart both earned the Medal of Honor for inserting into Mike Durant's crash site and fighting to the bitter and bloody end.
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snipers → earn → end
While the battle was horrific, it's also worth noting there isn't a single other military on the planet that could have been put in that situation and come out the way it did.
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it → note → situation
It was a testament to American exceptionalism and refusal to quit, despite a city being cut loose against a very small fighting force.
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city → quit → force
What do you think about the Battle of Mogadishu?
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you → think → Mogadishu
Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
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me → let → David.Hookstead@outkick.com
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