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http://video.foxnews.com/v/2715723704001/20-years-later-documentary-takes-viewers-back-to-mogadishu/?intcmp=obnetwork

He was my Brigade Chaplain, Streuker

I remember pretty much everything that lead up to it. Damn you CNN.

I was not involved in the fight. I was there for ten days month prior swapping out C&C Hawks with 10th Mountain when their aircrafts failed JACE Inspections. I cannot not even claim that as a combat deployment.

The city really sucked. Smell was Gawd awful. They love the soviet weapons. They love that damn root they chew to.

Opening statement:

"Its the mission made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down.."

No love for Mark Bowden and his excellent book. The movie, like 99.9% of all adaptations only scratched the surface of the emotional, violent, and insanely brave courage that occurred Oct 3+4, as well as the political and bureaucratic bungling leading up to the battle. Should be required reading in all high schools, in my opinion.

I remember being an 11 year old kid watching the Somalis drag the future Medal of Honor recipients through the streets like a prize. Don't remember what I felt, but my mother was frightened, and told us never to go into the Army. That year my oldest brother joined and I joined 6 years later, even made my mom sign off for early enlistment.

I gotta reread this book.