March 21, 2002	Thursday	Muharram 6, 1423

WASHINGTON, March 20: US forces sweeping an Afghan cave have found a GPS device that is believed to have belonged to a US special forces soldier who was killed in Somalia in a 1993 battle dramatized in the movie ‘Black Hawk Down,’ the Pentagon said Wednesday.

The name ‘G. Gordon’ was written on the handheld device and the pouch that contained it, said Air Force Brigadier General John Rosa, deputy director of current operations of the Joint Staff.

“We currently believe this GPS belongs to Army Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, an army special ops soldier killed in Somalia in 1993,” he said.

Gordon was posthumously awarded the nation’s highest medal for heroism in defending to his death the critically injured crew of a downed Blackhawk helicopter in Mogadishu on October 3, 1993.

Gordon was one of 18 US soldiers killed in the ill-fated mission to capture Somali warlord Mohammad Farah Aideed, the subject of the recently released movie “Black Hawk Down.”

US troops found the GPS device Monday in a cave in the mountains south of Gardez where US forces fought Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Operation Anaconda, Rosa said.—AFP