PRINTER'S NO. 162
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
202
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY GLEIM, KAUFFMAN, KINSEY, STAATS, RAPP, GILLEN,
DELLOSO, STRUZZI AND DEASY, MARCH 8, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 8, 2023
AN ACT
Designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 13775, carrying
Pennsylvania Route 641 over Big Spring Creek on the border of
Newville Borough and West Pennsboro Township, Cumberland
County, as the SFC Randall Shughart Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. SFC Randall Shughart Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Sergeant First Class Randall David "Randy" Shughart
was born August 13, 1958, in Lincoln, Nebraska, into an Air
Force family.
(2) The Shugharts moved to Newville, Pennsylvania, after
SFC Shughart's father left the United States Air Force,
living on and tending to a dairy farm.
(3) SFC Shughart joined the United States Army while
attending Big Spring High School in Newville and entered upon
graduation.
(4) SFC Shughart completed a pre-ranger course and was
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
granted a slot to attend Army Ranger School, from which he
graduated and earned the coveted Ranger Tab.
(5) SFC Shughart left the service for a time and then
reenlisted into the Army Rangers. He was later assigned to
"Delta Force" and transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
(6) SFC Shughart was deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia,
with other Delta Force members in the summer of 1993 as part
of Task Force Ranger.
(7) On October 3, 1993, SFC Shughart was a member of the
sniper team during Operation Gothic Serpent, a joint-force
assault mission to apprehend key advisers to Somali warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
(8) During the assault, Super Six One and Four, two of
the Army's Black Hawk helicopters providing insertion and air
support to the assault team, were shot down and crashed in
the city.
(9) SFC Shughart and his Delta Sniper Team Leader,
Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, were inserted approximately 100
meters from the second crash site, armed with only their
sniper rifles and sidearms, and made their way to the
location of the downed Blackhawk.
(10) When Master Sergeant Gordon and SFC Shughart
reached Super Six Four, they extracted the pilot, Chief
Warrant Officer Mike Durant, and other crew members from the
aircraft and established defensive positions around the
crash.
(11) It is believed that Master Sergeant Gordon was
first to be shot by a mob, which had surrounded the crash
site.
(12) SFC Shughart retrieved Master Sergeant Gordon's
20230HB0202PN0162 - 2 -
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
CAR-15 assault rifle and gave it to Chief Warrant Officer
Durant to use. Shortly after, SFC Shughart was killed, the
site was overrun and Chief Warrant Officer Durant was beaten
by the mob before being taken hostage.
(13) SFC Shughart posthumously received the Medal of
Honor for his heroic actions and sacrifice.
(b) Designation.--The bridge, identified as Bridge Key
13775, carrying Pennsylvania Route 641 over Big Spring Creek on
the border of Newville Borough and West Pennsboro Township,
Cumberland County, is designated the SFC Randall Shughart
Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
20230HB0202PN0162 - 3 -
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16