Re: [semi-OT] black hawk down?

--- Don Greenfield <gryphon@sisna.com> wrote:

> >The worst part was where the medic and an SSG were
> >working on a kid's severed artery.
> 
> DYM Hollywood added this bit?

It's in the book.


> Reading the book now (only in the first chapter) but
> according to the 
> author, the Rangers DID vary their routes and
> methods.  Choppers out, land 
> vehicles in; land vehicles out, choppers in;
> choppers or land vehicles both 
> ways.

Inadequately so.

> Horrible timing, but they figured the prize was
> worth it.  20/20 says it 
> was dumb, but if the Blackhawks don't go down and
> screw everything up, 
> would it have caught Adid? Don't know.

They were going after some lieutenants of Aideed. 
That's it.

> Oh, yeah.  NCO's are supposed to be the snarling
> SOB's that make soldiers 
> do what they're supposed to do, not what they want
> to do.

I've had both types and ones that make Joes do their
damn job are the only ones I respect.

> There was a CSAR team in case a chopper went down. 

Yeah.  Also known as Crash Site #2.

John

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