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Remember the Men We Lost During Operation Eagle Claw

Today marks a different anniversary. In the early morning hours of 25 April, 1980 President Carter announced to a stunned world that the United States had undertaken an ambitious raid into Iran to liberate 52 American hostages held illegally at our Embassy in Tehran. Unfortunately, that raid, named Operation Eagle Claw was unsuccessful and we lost 8 American servicemen. Join me in remembering their sacrifice.

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But, this failure was the watershed event that created, over the next several decades the world’s preeminent Special Operations capability; USSOCOM and it’s components. We wouldn’t be where are today with the determination of that fledgling task force. Join me in remembering those that paved the way.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 at 23:17 and is filed under History. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Remember the Men We Lost During Operation Eagle Claw”

  1. EODFish says:
    April 25, 2014 at 08:21

    Thanks for posting this. I have read the numbers of lives lost and reasons why the mission failed, but have never actually seen the individual heroes lost before.

  2. Lori Fisher says:
    April 26, 2014 at 19:50

    What a total mess that was, bless the men and their family’s.

  3. Carman Keith Collins says:
    April 27, 2014 at 06:06

    Every mission can bring us brave soldiers that may no return. We want to thank you all for your sacrifices. May god be with you all