hoch talked about Somalia
drug lords in somalia
- us was dropping goods and supplies to city
- drug cartel and drug leaders stole the food and kept them away from the poor that needed it
- congress decided to send around 15-20 blackhawks (assault helicopters) into somalia
michael durant
- pilot of one blackhawk.
- crash land in middle of MOgidisha
- 3 of 6 die instantly on impact
- mike breaks femur, and back
- other 2 die within a half hour
- delta 6 hovered and went down and they both died
- take mike durant in POW
- after a few days, they move him around to different areas
- while he's captured, they made him make a POW video
- gets shot in shoulder with AK
- us tells Somalia they have 24 hours to release him or they'll send many troops to destroy everything
- they released him and he went back to america after 13 days
- went into ICU for 2 months because of injuries
- went back to military and they discharged him from being a balckhawk and "took his wings"
- wanted to prove military wrong
- started training to run 10k (6.2mi)
- month later, he ran it
- ran it well enough to pass military grade training
- got back his "wings" after flying helicopter and proved them wrong
now
- makes public speaches
- around 300/year
- one of his kids wants to be a black hawk, the girl out of 3 boys
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