Editing Gary Gordon (section)

==Honors and awards==
MSG Gordon's personal decorations include:<ref name=GIG>{{cite web|title=Gary I. Gordon, Master Sergeant|url=http://www.veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.php?recordID=211|website=veterantributes.org|accessdate=August 27, 2022}}</ref>

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|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-leaf|ribbon=Meritorious Service ribbon.svg|width=106}}
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|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=award-leaf|ribbon=Us_jointservachiev_rib.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=1|type=award-leaf|ribbon=Army Achievement Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
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|{{ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=National_Defense_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=Humanitarian_Service_ribbon.svg|width=106}}
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|{{ribbon devices|number=|type=|name=NCO Professional Development Ribbon|width=106}}<span style="position:relative; top: 0px; left: -61px; display: inline-block; width: 0;">[[File:Award numeral 3.svg|16px]]</span>
|{{ribbon devices|number=0|ribbon=Army_Service_Ribbon.svg|width=106}}
|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=service-star|ribbon=United_Nations_Medal ribbon.svg|width=106}}
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|colspan="3"|[[File:Master Parachutist badge (United States).svg|90px]]&nbsp;[[File:USAF - Occupational Badge - High Altitude Low Opening.svg|120px]]&nbsp;[[File:US Army Expert Marksmanship Qualification Badge-Generic.png|75px]]
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|colspan="3"|[[File:Einzelbild Special Forces (Special Forces Insignia).svg|125px]]&nbsp;[[File:Ranger Tab.svg|105px]]
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|colspan="3"|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=oak|ribbon=Joint_Meritorious_Unit_Award_ribbon.svg|width=106}}&nbsp;{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=oak|ribbon=Valorous_Unit_Award_ribbon.svg|width=106}}
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|colspan="12"| [[Combat Infantryman Badge]] with star {{small|(denoting second award)}}<ref name=GIG/><ref name=JFKMuseum/>
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|colspan="9"| [[Medal of Honor]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
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|colspan="4"| [[Purple Heart]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| [[Meritorious Service Medal (United States)|Meritorious Service Medal]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| [[Commendation Medal|Army Commendation Medal]]
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|colspan="4"| [[Joint Service Achievement Medal]] with 1 [[Oak leaf cluster]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| [[Achievement Medal|Army Achievement Medal]] with 1 [[Oak leaf cluster]]{{citation needed |date=August 2022}}
|colspan="4"| [[Good Conduct Medal (United States)|Army Good Conduct Medal]] with four bronze loops<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
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|colspan="4"| [[National Defense Service Medal]]<!--Ok to assume, given enlistment period-->
|colspan="4"| [[Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal]]<!--Ok to assume, I think-->
|colspan="4"| [[Humanitarian Service Medal]]{{citation needed |date=August 2022}}
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|colspan="4"| [[Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon]] with [[Award numerals|Award numeral]] 3{{citation needed |date=August 2022}}
|colspan="4"| [[Army Service Ribbon]]<!--Ok to assume, I think-->
|colspan="4"| [[United Nations Medal]]{{citation needed |date=August 2022}}
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|colspan="4"| [[High Mountain Military School|French Army Mountaineering Badge]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| [[Badges of the Danish Military#Parachute badge|Royal Danish Parachutist Badge]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| 
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|colspan="4"| [[Parachutist Badge (United States)#Master Parachutist Badge|Master Parachutist Badge]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| [[Military Freefall Parachutist Badge]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="4"| [[Marksmanship badges (United States)#U.S. Army|Expert Marksmanship badge]] with rifle component bar<ref name=JFKMuseum/> 
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|colspan="6"| [[Special Forces Tab]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="6"| [[Ranger Tab#Ranger Tab|Ranger Tab]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
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|colspan="6"| [[Joint Meritorious Unit Award]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|colspan="6"| [[Valorous Unit Award]]<ref name=JFKMuseum/>
|}

The U.S. Navy officially named a [[RORO|roll-on/roll-off ship]] {{USNS|Gordon|T-AKR-296|6}} in a ceremony at 10:00&nbsp;a.m., Thursday, July 4, 1996, at [[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]], [[Virginia]]. Congressman [[John Murtha]] of [[Pennsylvania]], was the ceremony's principal speaker and Gordon's widow, Carmen Gordon, served as the [[Ship sponsor|ship's sponsor]]. ''Gordon'' was the second ship to undergo conversion from a [[Container ship|commercial container vessel]] to a [[Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off|Large Medium Speed Roll On/Roll Off]] (LMSR) sealift ship and is operated by the U.S. Navy's [[Military Sealift Command]], [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="usnsgordon">{{Cite press release |title=USNS Gordon (T-AKR 296) Named after Medal of Honor recipient |date=July 3, 1996 |publisher=[[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]], Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) |url=http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=976 |access-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301232941/http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=976 |archive-date=March 1, 2010 |work=No. 412-96}}</ref>

Gordon has been honored elsewhere as well. Gordon Elementary School in Linden Oaks, [[Harnett County, North Carolina]], which opened in January 2009, was named in his honor. The school is near [[Fort Bragg]], where Gordon was stationed before being deployed to Somalia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brooks |first=Drew |title=Gordon Elementary: Dedicated to 'name of a hero' |work=[[The Fayetteville Observer]] |date=February 28, 2009 |url=http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=319840 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730071957/http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=319840 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 30, 2017 |access-date=March 2, 2009}}</ref> In the Joint Readiness Training Center at [[Fort Polk]], LA, the main mock city is named Shughart-Gordon.

===Medal of Honor===
[[File:Gary Gordon Medal of Honor (DA-SC-02-06243).jpg|thumb|President Clinton presents the Medal of Honor to Carmen, the widow of Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon.]]
On May 23, 1994, both Gordon and Shughart posthumously received the Medal of Honor in recognition for the actions they took and the sacrifices they made to help protect the lives of the crew of Super Six Four. They were the only soldiers participating in Operation Gothic Serpent to receive the military's highest honor, and the first Medal of Honor recipients since the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="AMOHW">{{Cite web |date=August 3, 2009 |title=Medal of Honor recipients |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/Somalia.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222074108/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/somalia.html |archive-date=December 22, 2012 |access-date=January 6, 2010 |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]]}}</ref> Their medals were presented to their widows Stephanie Shughart and Carmen Gordon by [[Bill Clinton]] in a ceremony at the White House.<ref name=ceremony/>

===Medal of Honor citation===
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{{Quotation|Master Sergeant Gary Ivan Gordon, United States Army, distinguished himself by actions above and beyond the call of duty on 3 October 1993, while serving as Sniper Team Leader, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Somalia. Master Sergeant Gordon's sniper team provided precision fires from the lead helicopter during an assault and at two helicopter crash sites, while subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade fires. When Master Sergeant Gordon learned that ground forces were not immediately available to secure the second crash site, he and another sniper unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel, despite being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site. After his third request to be inserted, Master Sergeant Gordon received permission to perform his volunteer mission. When debris and enemy ground fires at the site caused them to abort the first attempt, Master Sergeant Gordon was inserted one hundred meters south of the crash site. Equipped with only his sniper rifle and a pistol, Master Sergeant Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members. Master Sergeant Gordon immediately pulled the pilot and the other crew members from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter which placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position. Master Sergeant Gordon used his long range rifle and side arm to kill an undetermined number of attackers until he depleted his ammunition. Master Sergeant Gordon then went back to the wreckage, recovering some of the crew's weapons and ammunition. Despite the fact that he was critically low on ammunition, he provided some of it to the dazed pilot and then radioed for help. Master Sergeant Gordon continued to travel the perimeter, protecting the downed crew. After his team member was fatally wounded and his own rifle ammunition exhausted, Master Sergeant Gordon returned to the wreckage, recovering a rifle with the last five rounds of ammunition and gave it to the pilot with the words, "good luck." Then, armed only with his pistol, Master Sergeant Gordon continued to fight until he was fatally wounded. His actions saved the pilot's life. Master Sergeant Gordon's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest standards of military service and reflect great credit upon him, his unit and the United States Army.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gary Ivan Gordon – Medal of Honor |url=https://themedalofhonor.com/medal-of-honor-recipients/recipients/gordon-gary-somalia |publisher=Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation |access-date=2018-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121022114/https://themedalofhonor.com/medal-of-honor-recipients/recipients/gordon-gary-somalia |archive-date=2018-11-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}