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In case nobody mentioned it, the two snipers that are dropped in to secure the survivors of the crash, both were killed. Both had been told not to go in. Both volunteered and insisted on it. Both were awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military award in the US. Two absolute heros.

The two fallen snipers, Gary Gordon and Randy Shugart, are GODS in the special ops community to this day.

My highschool history teacher was one of the chopper pilots in this war. he wasn't shot down, he had no problems. but we watched this with him when it was released. I never had more respect of any teacher or man when we all sat with him and watched him cry talking about what it was like. He was one of the coolest guys we knew back then and was a great teacher to boot.

Some the veterans who actually fought in this battle said that this was the first time where Hollywood did not exaggerate the intensity of the fighting. In fact they said that was actually a lot tamer than the real battle was. Damn good movie though.

The last run was called the "Mogadishu Mile" it was a 1 mile run through 100 degree weather after no sleep and hours of fighting.

*VKunia needs time to recover after every Band of Brothers episode horror* **Watches Black Hawk Down*** 😂

In real life, the two delta snipers who saved Mike Durant were ordered to stand down. They told command “if we live, you can court marshal us.” That’s the true meaning of never leaving a brother behind.

As someone who has met some of the veterans of that battle, aside from some of the dialogue and a couple minor things, this was an accurate representation of what happened. I served in the unit that rescued them, 2-14 infantry battalion, 10th mountain division. Every year we do an event called the Mogadishu mile where the whole battalion runs the distance that those guys had to run to get out. Some of the veterans from that battle join us for the run which was how I met them. The whole situation was described as the most intense fighting any of them had ever seen and still the most intense to this day. It's a rough movie to watch but I'm glad you got to see it. It doesn't sugarcoat the horrors of war and for that, I really like it.

It’s interesting to see a ‘normal’ person watching this vs a veteran- I suppose it’s our training and experience that make our reactions so different… that being said watching your reaction reminds us of our humanity and empathy. Thanks for the video!

I've always watched war movies with an eye toward the realism and historical accuracy. Watching your reaction to this (as well as your reactions to "Band of Brothers") is actually showing the human side of these events. Don't ever feel bad about showing your emotions, they help keep your mind straight. Thank you for sharing your content. -Michael

Interesting trivia : This was the only mission that was done in the day. There had been several similar missions carried out during this time successfully but they were all done at night. The approval of the daytime mission was not taken lightly however, it turned out there was more than just the general in the target location, and the potential benefit of capturing multiple VIP targets was deemed worth the risk. They KNEW how risky this daytime op was, but went ahead anyway knowing the potential payoff. Theres a cool video of the main Humvee driver going back to Somalia to drive through the same neighborhoods they fought through, its on youtube. Also the 2 snipers who asked to be let down into the downed helicopter site had a WAY more intense firefight than was depicted in the movie, but the producers thought that it would be too unbelievable to major audiences so they toned it down. Also the AK that the helicopter pilot gets knocked out with was actually a human arm in real life, but they changed it due to being too gruesome an image. Heavy shit

I'm not kidding when I say this movie almost made me throw up LOL

Couple of months ago the pilot that was captured, Michael Durant, was Jocko Willink's Podcast discussing his experiences and how when this movie ends his ordeal really begins. Episode 312: "Black Hawk Down. Night Stalkers Never Quit" About 3hrs long but well worth the listen if you're so inclined.

We were patrolling our "box" off the coast of the former Yugoslavia when this happened. It was odd to have the skipper announce over the 1MC that we had been tasked to help with a rescue mission at 0100. Our ship turned South and at flank speed we were headed to the Suez. By 0900 that morning we were called off and we slowly returned to our "box". We never knew why until the movie came out and we put two and two together with the dates mentioned. This movie has so many famous people in it and it gets a lot of the details correct.

Another thing: none of them left their back plates behind. The armor at the time didn't have a solid plate for the back. It only had soft armor.

Re: "Why did he steal someone's hand?!" The hand belongs to one of his teammates, better to pick it up than leave it there...

one thing that impressed me about one of the characters (Jason Isaacs) as Capt Steele. I must have watch this movie half a dozen times and i did not realize it was Jason. Excellent acting on his part. The only reason i knew he was in this was i saw a cast list. Same for another movie he was in (Green Zone). For Game of Thrones fans. How many noticed that "Jamie Lanister" was in this movie?

Something the film doesn't touch on is events prior to the raid, a few months earlier in July the Americans mistakenly attacked a peace conference of Somali elders who had gathered to discuss ending the fighting. They thought it was a meeting of the warlords so blasted the building with cannon fire from helicopters, killing many people, this was a major reason why there was so much hostility during the events portrayed in the film.

RIP the 20 soldiers of The Battle of Mogadishu MSG Gary Ivan Gordon (August 30, 1960 - October 3, 1993), aged 33 SFC Randy David Shughart (August 13, 1958 - October 3, 1993), aged 35 SSG Daniel Darrell Busch (July 30, 1968 - October 3, 1993), aged 25 SFC Earl Robert Fillmore Jr. (June 16, 1965 - October 3, 1993), aged 28 MSG Timothy “Griz” Lynn Martin (July 9, 1955 - October 3, 1993), aged 38 CPL James “Jamie” E. Smith (February 16, 1972 - October 3, 1993), aged 21 SPC James M. Cavaco (February 12, 1967 - October 3, 1993), aged 26 CPL Richard “Alphabet” W. Kowalewski Jr. (March 31, 1973 - October 3, 1993), aged 20 SGT Dominick M. Pilla (March 31, 1972 - October 3, 1993), aged 21 SGT Lorenzo M. Ruiz (June 21, 1966 - October 3, 1993), aged 27 SSG William “Wild Bill” David Cleveland Jr. (January 27, 1959 - October 3, 1993), aged 34 SSG Thomas “Tommie” J. Field (April 11, 1968 - October 3, 1993), aged 25 CW4 Raymond “Ironman” Alex Frank (May 11, 1948 - October 3, 1993), aged 45 CW3 Clifton “Elvis” P. Wolcott (January 20, 1957 - October 3, 1993), aged 36 CW3 Donovan “Bull” Lee Briley (December 19, 1959 - October 3, 1993), aged 33 SGT James Casey Joyce (August 15, 1969 - October 4, 1993), aged 24 PFC James Henry Martin Jr. (March 17, 1970 - October 4, 1993), aged 23 CPL Mat Aznan Awang (December 28, 1960 - October 4, 1993), aged 32 SFC Matthew “Matt” Loren Rierson (September 29, 1960 - October 6, 1993), aged 33 SGT Cornell Lemont Houston Sr. (June 22, 1962 - October 6, 1993), aged 31 You will always be remembered.

Hey as a veteran I'm glad to see you watch these movies but I also dont want you mess yourself up. It sounds crazy but its possible to experience PTS symptoms either from exposure to intense imagery or even proximity to PTS and PTSD sufferers. I'm not saying you shouldn't watch these films only that maybe you should space them out a bit. As much as we wish people understood better we also want people to live their lives in peace and have peace of mind. With that said sometimes these movies focus so much on the action that they forget just how boring war really is. There is a saying that war is long stretches of boredom punctuated by short bursts of terror. And it's a absolutely true. With that in mind I would like to recommend the movie Jarhead. It captures the mundanity and the boredom in a way no other movie has. It's not as intense but portrays things pretty authentically.

I was a U.S. Army Critical Care Nurse in Iraq x2 I can feel for this poor medic in this situation.. the frustration of being unable to help a wounded solder stays with you for the rest of your life 😐

I can remember this being reported on the news,such a bloody conflict and this film tells it without pulling any punches.

I *highly* recommend the book this movie is based on. It is now required reading for military officers. The journalist spoke to basically everyone possible, including the opposition forces to get a clear picture of what happened when. It is very thorough. The movie, for obvious reasons, combines multiple real-life people into one character or another for brevity and story-telling.

I love this movie. It's one of the most realistic and accurate movies I've seen, having studied the battle a lot. One big thing though, the guy who fell at the start from the helicopter? The movie makes it look like it was because he didn't know what he was doing. In reality the helicopter jolted suddenly due to an updraft, and last minute he'd been given extra gear, so he was sliding with heavier gear than he was used to, and the chopper moved, and he lost his grip. He survived though.

You need to watch Lone Survivor. I think you’d like that one a lot

It's not in the movie, but an officer had gotten the last space in one of the APCs, and he saw a young soldier run up to the vehicle only to be told that there was no more room for him. seeing how frightened and desperate the soldier was, the officer got out of the APC so the soldier could take his place inside. The soldier later said that the officer's brave act of compassion and generosity was what convinced him to reenlist.

Original reason to be there was hunger relief. The US Marines were doing well with it. The UN got involved and decided to remove the warlords, who not only had private armies, but also controlled the radio and TV. The reason why the civilians were so angry was they were told by their media that the UN was there to feed their kids pork and convert them into Christians. One of the reasons why the original US Marine reflief operation was going smoothly was because Aidid's son was serving in the US Marines as a translator. They were safe until the mission changed .

I recommend watching the Operations Room for an in-depth explanation of what happened during this battle. They also have a lot of videos portrayed in Band of Brothers!

They released Durant because they were about to get an unholy hell storm rained upon them in retribution and he basically had 100% support now from everyone he was fighting against now against the UN and US. So he let him go, let Clinton and everyone bail and have his power uncontested. Also, one of my favorite stories ever involves him and Gary Gordon, on of the spiers who scarified themselves to buy Durant time to survive both receiving the Medal of Honor for it. He was speaking at Gary Gordon's Medal of Honor ceremony in his home town, and was asked about his speech. He did know he'd be asked to speak, so he went to Gordon's home town library and check out their book on the Medal of Honor to get some notes. Upon opening the cover, the last person to check the book out 15 years earlier, was Gary Gordon.

The easiest rule of thumb to remember is that a civilian with a weapon, is no longer a civilian. The movie does get a few things incorrect, such as the insertion point for chalk 4 was one and 1/2 blocks away from where they should have been.

This happened during my senior year of high school. Around this time period we were also involved in Bosnia and were there until 1995. The attitude at the time and the feel of patriotism felt to be at an all-time high. We no longer had to worry about the soviets, and we were going out to try and protect people that could not protect themselves. I never met any of the rangers that were there, however, I met rangers that served with them. This is hard to believe, but this movie toned down the violence and what the soldiers had to do to survive. By the end of the night, they had no more ammo. They had to resort to knives and pick up anything that they could use for a weapon. If this movie depicted it in its full horror, they probably would have gotten an x rating for violence and gore. It is sad that movies like this and shows like Band of Brothers are based on real life. Hopefully we can all appreciate what our courageous soldiers had to go through, and we can thank them for their sacrifice to attempt to make this world a better place.

Some background for you: The guys with the mountain climbing helmets are Delta Force. They are considered to be among some of the most premier soldiers in the entire world. They recruit FROM other special operations units within the United States military, and, if I'm correct, STILL are not acknowledged to officially exist, though it's essentially a useless fiction at this point.

I struggle with the surgery scene too. I always get nauseous. I just don't do medical stuff well. I can't watch Wade's death in Saving Private Ryan either. But absolutely one of the best war movies ever made. Puts you right in the action. The moment by moment events in the film aren't necessarily 100% historical, but the overall flow of the battle and feel of what happened from the research I've done is very effective. It is inevitable with a movie they had to consolidate some events and make composite characters of the actions of different soldiers, but it's about as close as you're going to get to a combat experience without being in combat yourself. I think if you were able to handle this, you'll be able to handle "The Pacific". It's a very similar level of brutality and intensity.

Some recommendations. Tears of the Sun - If you want to stay on the war movie lane. An excellent movie with a really strong morale implication. Blade - If you haven´t watched it. Grandfather of the MCU and still the best hero entrance till this day. 13th Warrior - Thats a personal favorite of mine, even if it was criminally under marketed as it released. Great fantasy/medieval movie.

25:31 Col. Danny McKnight consciously forced himself not to flinch because he thought that if he showed fear, the fear would spread among the embattled young soldiers. The Lindybeige Channel has a great video called "British Officers Don't Duck?" that explores the long tradition of British officers not flinching under fire best expressed by BGen. Thomas Pakenham who said "Don't bother ducking. The men don't like it, and it doesn't do any good" before being killed at the battle of Gallipoli.

I served in this unit- B co 3/75- decades later, alongside a lot of these men’s sons, who followed their fathers footsteps. This movie was more than just entertainment for a significant portion of my young adult life. It was the greatest honor, and a time I’ll never forget. THAT said, I have been waiting a LONG time to see your reaction to this one, and was not disappointed 😁

"Gordys gone man. I'll be outside. Good luck." Breaks my heart.

13 Hours is a great film and another instance where our people were left behind.

One of the reasons Michael Durant was released was because Adid was told there were 2500 pissed off Marines offshore waiting to unleash hell to get to him.

I was 12 when this happened. I remember it on the news. Seeing it in a movie form really adds to it, especially when you know the details ahead of time.

Fun Fact, of the "main characters" only Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore Ron Eldard and William Fichtner are americans, you have Ewan McGregor (scotish) Eric Bana (australian) Tom Hardy (english) Jason Isaacs (english) Ewen Bremner (scotish), Kim Coates (canadian), Orlando Bloom (english), Nikolaj Coster (danish) etc...

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what is more amazing (re: intensity) is i watched a documentary about this, one of the guys that was actually there said that tho the movie gives a good representation of the chaos of so much lead in the air, it was actually worse in real life.

One of the reasons that the army selected the UH-60 as their helicopter was actually an accident that one of the prototypes had in the test runs. There were around 15 soldiers being transported as part of the tests and the helicopter crashed, vertical fall from around 20 meters or so. The soldiers survived with no serious injuries thanks to the design of the airframe, thought for such vertical falls and survivability. The two soldiers that volunteered to assist the fallen pilot were awarded posthumously with the medal of honor.

Two film facts: One of Orlando Bloom's first film roles fell from a helicopter. And one of Tom Hardy's first roles is to deafen his comarads. Theres a book "Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden". This Book explains a lot.

This has to be my favorite war movie after Saving Private Ryan, I don't know why it's reacted to so little. It's definitely a hard one to watch, as you said there's very few moments where nothing is happening as soon as the shooting starts. Don't think I have ever seen you feel genuinely sick during a movie, shows how they didn't held back in the depiction of the events. Thank you so much for this one. As a side note, I loved your black and white number at the start of the promo, very true to infomercials, lol.

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The snipers who were killed defending the second crash site were in fact stripped completely as their bodies were paraded down the streets of Mogadishu. Television video of that event aired unedited for a brief period before those scenes could be altered in the studio!

This was one of the finest modern war movies ever made. It has SUCH an awesome cast, Eric Bana, Jason Isaacs, Tom Sizemore, Orlando Bloom, Ewan McGregor, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau...

I remember this in the news when it happened. The book the movie is based on is a tremendous account.

I was surprised you did a reaction on this one. It's indeed very intense, and also kinda depressing. Glad you did it. Well done! PS still digging that exotic cat of yours

fun fact, Urich is played by Tom Guiry who played Smalls in The Sandlot

I remember seeing the 2 delta snipers dragged through the streets on the evening news when this happened. Was very shocking. Most people didn't even know we were there before this happened.

It's complicated, but in a nutshell Mike Durant was released because he was not worth keeping. As he stated in the movie, the US would not negotiate (meaning pay a ransom) for him. So the militia basically had three options, kill him and thus get hunted down and killed themselves in retaliation. Hold on to him until they got raided by a special forces rescue team, which would likely result in most of them being killed. Or release him and go on about their lives.

5:56 you would think but the Captain is a ranger and the sergeant is in delta force. "The unit". They are notorious for getting away with everything.

This was the most intense movie I have ever seen. And the surgery sceen was the most terrifying of all. BUT the music was so good that I had to have an OST from this movie and I still have it and listen sometimes to it.

Somalia has made strides towards a functional government in the last few years, but it was a failed state for more than two decades after this event. In a sense, everyone was a civilian because there was no real military or police, but the warring factions trying to take control all had militias. It was just a dire situation all the way around, and the only recourse some Somalis thought they had was to kill anyone not supporting their preferred warlord, hence the mob of thousands attacking the Americans. The problems with piracy around 2010 were largely the result of fishermen becoming desperate after overfishing their waters and no government to enforce laws. And the disaster in Somalia made most outsiders (especially the US) reluctant to get involved in Rwanda a few years later.

This movie came out in 2001, a few weeks after September 11th. One thing not mentioned in it, because the author didn't know about it at the time, was that Al Qaeda had fled to Somalia in the 1990s and taught local militias to shoot down helicopters with rocket propelled grenades. It all forms a nice little circle. And speaking of circles, Adid's son was a US Marine.

Not trying to nitpick, but you're the second person I've seen blindly react to this film and not understand why Othic picked up the severed hand. The appendage was white with a watch. Considering the setting was in Africa where virtually the entire native population would be black, it was obvious that a white hand belonged to one of his allies. And by leaving the hand behind, a local would've found and desecrated the remains. It's why Garrison insisted everyone stayed all those additional hours to free Walcott's body. And the mob that overran the second crash site ended up doing just that. Aside from hacking off limbs and parading them around, they dragged the corpses through the streets in celebration. An amateur video was taken of the abhorrent act in question as it happened, later leaking online. It's rumored this footage was a major factor in Clinton ordering all armed forces out of Somalia, shortly after Durant was released. Also worth noting that Sgt. Ruiz, who Captain Steele was speaking to at the end, was one of the 19 fatalities from the raid. I believe his injuries were too severe to recover from, despite being alive at that moment. The dialogue spoken during the closing credits is the contents of his death letter he left with the soldier with the arm cast.

20:04 One of the Somali civilians interviewed for the book "Blackhawk Down" said he saw people brutalizing one of the American corpses, and when he told them to stop and that it was against Islam to abuse the dead, they told him to go away or they would kill him.

The pilots were all from a group called Task Force 160 (The Night Stalkers) who are part of the Special Operations Community. The guys in the black vests were all "Delta Force" (Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta). Both are some of the most highly trained soldiers and airmen we have. All have extensive experience prior to being selected for Delta and are older than the Rangers who were assisting in the operation. The Somali's called the the "Black vested killers".

Thank you for watching and reacting to these movies that affect you so much you can barely make it through. The difficult ones are some of the best.

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Fun Fact: This movie won 2 Oscars in 2002- Best Film Editing and Best Sound.

one of my fav combat films. theres many accuracies and inaccuracies here (for the sake of story telling ) but my uncle had fought in this operation and when we watched this movie together back then, it had brought him back to certain moments that has been represented in this film. powerful stuff! My uncle has an injury in his leg form this. After repelling from the black hawk...he had touched down wrong and it messed him up long term. Our vets that had participated in this operation...deserve all the respect and support.. Its sad..the state of Somalia then and maybe even now. Wish nothing but prosperity everywhere. Thanks for reaction to this!

According to the book, which featured more memoires and survivor accounts, the entire problem with this was politicians trying to grandstand with soldiers, i.e. making the general go with the absurdly risky daytime attack, without the proper amount of firepower, and refused to inform any of the allied troops from Italy, (and I think the Pakistanis were there) over not trusting their loyalty to engage in battle or some reason similar, for which he took full responsibility even though he was against the entire operation but had to do it to appease congress, and was forced to resign if my memory fails me. Also, Colonel steel was drummed out of the military in afghanistan/iraq when it came out he was encouraging kill counts for his troops, and kind of a religious nut. he might have had issues with Delta as in the film, but he was one of the only ones, all the rangers pretty much followed Delta's leads during the fighting if they were near them. Mind you haven't read the book in a few years, but it's pretty good, we also get a lot of information from the captured pilot about his time in captivity. I don't recall them mentioning Adid's militia opening fire on unarmed civilians as we saw in the film, but I just chalked it up to whoever wrote the script had some racial issues and wanted to make almost all of them we see in it to be vile or crazy. In the book they kind of explain why the people were desecrating the dead, having American troops coming in and doing running gun battles multiple nights, and killing men and children that attacked them whipped the people of the city to extreme anti American sentiment, to the point that the Pakistanis who came in were like "holy shit, what are you guys doing, they're dead, stop doing this."

I remember being a sophomore in high school watching this unfold on the news. It was maddening to see the bodies dragged through the streets. I would say this movie is about 90% accurate. I recommend reading the book. There are also deleted scenes that were factually accurate that were cut. A bit of trivia: The scene where the little bird chopper, Star 41, lands at the first crash site and the evac Sgt. Busch, the guy piloting the chopper is the actual pilot who did it in real life.

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You’ve already watched many of the most important war movies, but I highly highly recommend you watch “We Were Soldiers”. One of the best movies to depict that it’s about “fighting for the man next to you”. These movies depict parts of our history that must not be forgotten.

"You wanna know what I think? It don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit, just goes right out the window." Hoot is badass.

11:30 The entire movie was shot in a city in Morocco with hundreds of extras. No Hollywood studio could recreate combat scenes so realistically.

When your home is run by a warlord who’s power is based in the fact they control the food while everyone else starves, you can turn from civilian to combatant real quick when food is a prize for dead enemies. Not entirely sure that’s why civilians were trying to also attack the Americans, but would be a probable motivation.

One of my favourite movies of all time. They did a really good job trying to keep it as accurate as possible, and even used the 160th SOAR for their aircraft! Awesome video!

The main combat sequence takes 60 minutes of screen time and it took about 60 minutes in real life. The pilot that landed at the 1st crash site was the actual pilot who landed in the actual battle, the only difference is that IRL he landed in an alley that was barely big enough for his rotors.

My father was there. Unfortunately, like most peacekeeping operations, rules of engagement are very tricky and you'd need approval via a really shitty and inefficient bureaucracy and even then, the answer is usually "Do not engage" Then again, better than civilian casualties, I guess. War is just a cacophony of madness, compassion and opinions. You can say "I would have done this, or I would have done that" but in the end, everyone is wrong in one way or another.

15:33 Othic stated that he took the severed hand of the Delta operator because he didn't want to leave any part of a fallen comrade to be taken by the enemy. It's part of the Ranger Creed.

Trivia: despite what the movie would tell you, Mogadishu didn't look like a typical Middle Eastern or North African town with multi story buildings but instead more like a shanty town where the houses are just one floor tall and use corrugated or even sheet metal as roofs.

Haha the "As Seen on TV" ad bit in the beginning was well done! Had no idea you were an aviation nerd as well, cool stuff

I am old enough to remember watching this on the tv news. ( the events). Actually that man was selling a gun and was showing the customer it works.

Fun Fact : The photo that Durant holds is actually a picture of Eric Bana's ( Hoot ) wife and child.

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One of the first depictions of war that I can remember watching. Always a hard one to watch. We appreciate how much you feel in these types of movies and how difficultit is for you to see. Don't ever feel bad about that.

To give you some context, in case you didn't know. Yes, the Rescue operation did happen, but originally in 19th December, 1992, the US Army's 10th Mountain were deployed to Somalia as part of the Multi-international force, as part of a peacekeeping operation. Then Habr-Geidr clan militia leader Mohammad Farah Aidid, launched an all-out attack on the UN Relief shipment, killing 24 Pakistani soldiers on 5th June 1993, two months later that led to the incident as depicted in the movie, It was a SWAT Team style operation since the Six-Day Iranian Embassy siege that was foiled by the British SAS in 1980. But when PFC Todd Blackburn fell due to when the RPG missed the Black Hawk Helicopter, and the Wolcott Super-6-1 crash happened, and Mike Durant got captured after Super-6-4, the second Black Hawk was shot down as Randy Shugart (btw was played by Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones, mind you) and Gary Gordon died defending Mike from captivity, everything changed, in which it became a battle for survival, with no man being left behind, and then the Rescue operation happened, with the assistance from the Malaysians and Pakistanis, and interesting tidbit, the film also received some criticism from the Pakistani fans (btw, I'm from Pakistan), for not being given enough credit for their country's involvement with the whole Mogadishu mishap.

That run at the end was dubbed “The Mogadishu Mile” And every class of Rangers since the incident, runs 1 mile in full kit in honor of The Mogadishu Mile

I was at Ft Campbell on DRF1 when this went down, we never got the word to go. I clearly remember the night Chief Durant came home, the 160th barracks were a block down from us (3/320th FA).

The Little Bird helicopter that evacuated Delta operator SSG Dan Busch (who essentially held down the crash site singlehandedly) from the first crash site was part of the preexisting rescue plan for a copter being shot down. That possibility was anticipated, and planned for, but they were not prepared for two copters to be shot down. Busch later died of his wounds and was posthumously warded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.

The cast is a dynasty: Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy and etc.

15:31 Othic, the soldier who took the hand was actually asked about it in a book written about the event. He had no idea why he took the hand. Some chalk it up to him subconciously upholding the "Leave No Man Behind" creed. And some think that he instinctively took it in case it could be reattached later.

LOVE your disclaimers at the start of your reactions for why some of the movie audio has been muted/filtered.

So many big names were in this movie that I had no idea before. Lucius Malfoy from Harry Potter, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Hector from Troy, Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy, Josh Hartnett, Agent Alex from Prison Break, Mister Fantastic from Fantastic Four and some others I probably forgot.

Todd Blackburn, the soldier who fell out of the helicopter at the beginning, survived and went on to have a career with the police department in Pensacola, Florida. I don't know if he is still there or not though

"Tears of the Sun" is a must watch

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Amazing how many things go down that people are not aware of the scope of how important it is and at times how brave, bloody and heroic.

The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as the Black Hawk Down incident, was fought in October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States, and Somali militiamen loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Near the end of the 90s, I had a young widow come into my law office needing to file a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Her husband was killed in this battle, but the nation that sent him there failed to provide for his young wife and children.

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This is hands down one of my favorite movies of all time. It's such an amazing story and I'm glad you were able to finally experience it.

19:33 The kingslayer!!! Tywin is going to be pissed.

Black Hawk Down: for when the emotional and spiritual toll of the D-Day Sequence in Saving Private Ryan just didn't last long enough for you.