Operation Shining Express
Operation Shining Express was the June 2003 deployment of an American naval task force, consisting of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge and the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines to rescue U.S. embassy personnel and American citizens during the Second Liberian Civil War. The deployment was announced on June 12, 2003 and lasted until July 2003.
It followed the successful 1990 rescue effort in Liberia, Operation Sharp Edge.
