TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
OUTLINE SHEET 1-08-1 (continued)
o. Campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia (1992-2000)
(1) Overview
(a) With the collapse of the Soviet Union, four republics
of the communist country of Yugoslavia chose to become
independent nations; i.e., Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-
Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
(b) Opposition by forces from the remaining portion of
Yugoslavia and Bosnian Serb irregulars created a
period of violence, which included the mass killing of
Muslim and Croatian civilians.
(2) Navy involvement
(a) Navy carrier-based aircraft provided air cover for:
1 U.S. cargo aircraft that transported supplies to
civilians in the war-ravaged republic of Bosnia.
2 United Nations peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
by enforcing a U.N. established no-fly zone
against Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav aircraft.
(b) In the Adriatic Sea, U.S. Navy ships established a
blockade to prevent the shipment of arms to
Yugoslavia.
(c) U.S. Naval forces bombed enemy targets using:
1 Land and carrier-based aircraft.
2 Missiles launched from ships at sea.
p. First women assigned to a combat ship--During March 1994, women
were assigned to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
q. Attack on USS Cole (DDG 67)
(1) In October 2000, while in the port of Aden, Yemen, the USS
COLE was struck by a small boat carrying two terrorists and
several hundred pounds of explosives.
(2) The resulting blast ripped a hole amidships on the port
side killing seventeen Sailors.
r. Attack on America--In September and October of 2001, the hospital
ship USNS Comfort docked in Manhattan, New York to support
disaster relief workers following the terrorist attack on the
World Trade Center.
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