Thursday, May 2

[7Tiffanie]

Hoch talked about Somalia- Mike Durant talked to them guys about Somalia. He came to Jaskson villie to talk to the team about the sitation. He came in telling the team that they were wimps. Somalia has a lot of drug lords going around. The US was drooppping goods and supplies into the city, the drug leaders were stealing the supplies from the people who actually needed them. US decided they need a resolution they decided they were going to send 15-20 black hawks (military helicopter) into Somalia. US thought this would be an easy job, but they were wrong. When they went in there the RPG to shoot down the helicopters. The black hawks would always land in the same spot. ON night like 3-4 a black hawk got shot all 6 were killed a couple nights later Mike's helicopter got shot and went spiralling down into the city 3-6 died, Mike break femera. Mike was a POW. Mike is in a lot of pain due to his femera and back. About day 9-10 they ask him to make a POW video. He made the video a guy comes in a shoots Mike in the shoulder. Couple nnights later US tells them they have 24 hrs to release Mike and if they don't we were goign to send people to take over drug leaders. Less than 24 hrs he was released and back in the US. He was in the hosiptal for over 2 months, afterwards he went back to the military. He no longer could be a black hawk. He wanted to prove them wrong that he could fly again. later on he ran a 10K. He passed the military time, so he went back to be a black hawk and the military let him. he has 3-4 kids and his girl wants to be just like him!