Section 2. 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 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 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 as 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.