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WHEN IT'S TIME TO TAKE IT BACK (14 OF 50)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Genesis 14:1-24
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When It's Time to Take It Back (14 of 50)
Donald Cantrell
Series: Genesis
Genesis 14:1-24


Theme: ''Abraham took back what the Devil had taken''

I - The Plundering Is Terrible (1 - 7)

II - The Powerless (8 - 10)

III - The Prisoner Is Taken (11 - 12)

IV - The Prognosis Is Troubling (13)

V - The Pursuit Is Triumphant (14 - 16)

VI - The Priest Is Transcendent (17 - 20)

VII - The Proposal Is Tantalizing (21)

VIII - The Proclamation Is Tactful (22 - 24)

The Rescue of Scott O'Grady

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), after popular pressure, had decided to intervene in the Bosnian War after allegations of war crimes against civilians were made by various media organizations. NATO military involvement primarily involved enforcement of a No-fly zone codenamed Operation Deny Flight to discourage Bosnian Serb military aircraft from attacking Bosnian government and Bosnian Croat forces. As part of that operation, two F-16s from the 555th Fighter Squadron based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, were patrolling the skies above Bosnia on June 2, 1995.

Shoot-Down

On the ground, a Bosnian-Serb army 2K12 Kub surface-to-air missile battery near Mrkonjic Grad was readying to fire its missiles on NATO aircraft. The Serbs had moved the mobile tracked missile battery and laid a trap. They switched on their missile radars sparingly, giving F-16 fighters little warning. Waiting until a plane was directly overhead, where the aircraft's warning and countermeasures would be at their weakest, they fired two missiles. In the cockpit, O'Grady's instruments alerted him that a missile was coming, but, because he was flying through an overcast sky, he could not see it. The first missile exploded between the two aircraft.
The second struck the F-16 piloted by O'Grady.[9] His flight lead, Captain Robert Gordon ''Wilbur'' ...

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