Operation Guardian Retrieval

Operation Guardian Retrieval was a United States Armed Forces operation which took place in 1997[1] to evacuate approximately 550 US citizens from the then country of Zaire[lower-alpha 1] during the First Congo War.[2][3][4] With the developing violence in the nation at the time, the US Army Southern European Task Force prepared the Joint Task Force Guardian Retrieval to conduct an evacuation of non-combatant US citizens. The evacuation was supported by the USS Nassau and the Special operations capable 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which had been deployed to Albania at the time, to support Operation Silver Wake. But was relieved two weeks early by the USS Kearsarge and the Special operations capable 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.[5]

See also

Notes
  1. Afterward the Democratic Republic of the Congo

References
  1. "26th Marine Expeditionary Unit deployment history". United States Marine Corps. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. "III. Operational Primacy: 1997 in Review". United States Navy. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  3. Walter J. Boyne (26 June 2007). Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007. St. Martin's Press. p. 512. ISBN 978-1-4299-0180-2.
  4. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services (1 January 1998). Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1997 and the Future Years Defense Program: Military posture. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-054389-0.
  5. "Operation Guardian Retrieval". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
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