Talk:Gary Gordon

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[edit] I'd say it was a "C" at best

I've addressed this same issue on the page for Randall Shughart. And since this article has the same problems, I restate it:

The Biography section is not a biography, but rather a rehash, practically verbatim, of the events leading up to Shughart's death as published here.[1] While the information on that site is in the public domain, and should be included here somehow, a proper biography still should be here.

As for the Medal of Honor citation section, it's a mess, repeating almost word-for-word what was cut and pasted above. That's just stupidity or laziness, or both. Alcarillo 17:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, to be honest. I noticed the inaccuracies and contradictions when reading both. Lh'owon 09:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I edited down the account of the battle in order to highlight the essentials. I also removed entirely the verbatim cut-and-paste of the MOH citation. This article could definitely use more biographical info pre-Mogadishu, specifically his early life and entire army career leading up to his assignment with Task Force Ranger. Alcarillo 15:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other teammate

As I sated in the Shughart discussion, there was a third member of Gordon's sniper team. Sergeant First Class Brad Hallings.

Page 178 of Bowden's book lists the team members, and page 197 explains that Hallings took control of a mini gun on the Blackhawk after a crew chief was injured and was not inserted. Jslowik 02:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MoH Citation

Bowden's book, and Durant's book both said that Gary died first and Randy brought back Gary's gun to Durant. So the MoH citation is completely opposite of what really happened.