"Mogadishu Mile"

4 Rounds
19 Coupon Ground-to-Overheads
19 Coupon Front Squats
19 Coupon Push-Ups (each hand)
400 meter/1 lap Coupon Run
If you lose physical contact with your Coupon, you must start that round over.

Dedicated to the soldiers who went into the city of Mogadishu, Somalia to execute Operation ‘Gothic Serpent’, an attempt to apprehend key players in Mohammed Farrah Aidid’s dictatorship on October 3, 1993.
Things took a turn for the worse when two aircraft were shot down, forever coining the phrase ‘Blackhawk Down’. Determined to not leave a man behind, and also facing the task of securing the crash sites, Rangers and Deltas, scattered at several locations throughout the city, under heavy fire, most of them wounded, and low on supplies, held their positions until the morning hours of October 4th.
As help finally arrived, the armored vehicles could not accommodate all of the soldiers. At this point, some of them began their exit to a rallying point on foot, under heavy fire, dehydrated and sleep-deprived, all of them wounded in one way or another. This has become known as the “Mogadishu Mile.”The symbolism of the “Mogadishu Mile:”
– You cover a total distance of one mile. You carry your coupon during the run to symbolize the gear the soldiers carried.
– 19 reps to honor each soldier of Task Force Ranger killed during the battle and the day after.
– Ground-to-Overheads as the soldiers held up their rifles the entire time.
– Squats as they sought cover behind anything available.
– Push-Ups as they fell to the ground and had to get back up.
– Don’t let the coupon go – symbolic for the dedication the soldiers showed towards their creed to “not leave a man behind.”

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:  From the book Lead with LUV: Sometimes the most loving thing you can do is to be straight with people when they are getting off course. My additional 2 cents – this only works once trust has been built, so focus on building that trust first.