Mr. Hoch came in and told us a story today about Mike Durant.
- Somalia has a lot of drug lords...the US was dropping goods and supplies into the middle of the cities.
- The drug people were stealing the supplies and keeping them from the people who needed them.
- Congress decided that there needed to be was a resolution
- They decided to send 15 to 20 different Black Hawk helicopters into Somalia
- Every night the Black Hawks would stop at the same spot and the cartels noticed this so they attacked there.
- They shot down 1 copter and all 6 people died.
- 2 days later Mike Durant's Black Hawk gets hit by an RPG
- They crash land in the middle of the city.
- 3 die on impact, Mike has a broken back bone and femur. The other two guys die soon after.
- The enemy pick up Mike Durant and take him to one location and keep moving him over several days.
- While he's captured about day 9 or 10 the enemy ask him to make a POW video.
- After making the video a member of the enemy comes in and shoots him in the soldier. He calls the guy a coward.
- The US responds to the POW video and Mike Durant was released within 24 hours and sent back to the US.
- Once he got back he went into extensive hospital care.
- Finally after 2 months he went back to the military so that they could discharge him. Mike wasn't happy...
- He wanted to prove the military that they were wrong.
- He started training to run a 10k. Month later he ran it. He ran it well enough that he would pass his military grade training.
- Was successful at flying a helicopter again and the military gave his wings back to him.
- "Things might look tough but theirs always hope or opportunity"
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