thursday may 2

[7Jessica]

today we have Mr Hoch for class, he is going to talk to us about black hawk down. mike durant was the only guy ti survive black hawk down and he was the pilot of it. us was airlifting supplies and the drug guys we stealing food and supplies keeping them from people who actually need them. drug cartels, us congress decided they needed a resolution. there decision was to send black hawk helicopters into Somalia, us thought it was gonna be easy, they were wrong...they went in there and they were going to shoot down the helicopters, every night they would land in the same spot. 1st plane all 6 died from impact, his helicopter got tipped and it went in circles  and it crashed in the city. on impact 3 or the 6 died instantly, mike broke his thiemer, hurt his back and he was unconscious. there was like a hundred of the enemy. delta 6 was trying to save mike and his crew then the delta guys died.  the enemy wanted a prisoner of war so they took mike. after a few days they kept moving him around when he was in a lot of pain and they bone was very very close to his artery. they wanted him to make a prisoner of war video. he was trained to make these kind of videos. a few days later the next night us told Somalia to release mike otherwise us would destroy everything. mike was released and was put back into us control it was only 13 days but seemed like a year. once he got back he was in hospital for 2 months. he got out and went back to the military but military took his wings, mike wasn't happy bout that. mike wanted to prove military they were wrong that he could do his job. so he trained to run a 10k and he ran well enough he would pass military training and after mike proved all this he got his wings back.