Since everybody’s talking about Somalia and Somalis these days, here’s some seriously gripping stuff straight from the mouth of a man who was there, right in the thick of things.
Via Tactical Hermit.
Update! Probably shouldn’t even bring this up, but we had a HUGE CF fan and regular reader who also happened to be one of the Blackhawk pilots caught up that day in the chaotic maelstrom of intrepid warriors left to twist in the wind by careerist senior officers, conniving DoD rumpswabs, and vacillating, cowardly ProPols—an old, old story all too familiar to every US serviceman, from whatever branch, conflict, and/or era.
Anyhoo, I corresponded with this fella regularly for several years, got no idea where he might be now though. The inside stories of flying Blackhawks in both Mogadishu and elsewhere he related to me over those years I will NEVER forget, although he did make me solemnly swear not to say a word about it lest he wind up court-martialed for revealing classified informaion to a cake-eating civilian.
The Blackhawk Down saga is a heartrending revelation of how very far America had fallen by then—a downfall which has only worsened in the years since. If you haven’t seen the movie, you really, really need to correct that immediately. It will depress you, it will enrage you, it will discomfit and disturb you…but the incredible courage of those valiant American fighting men foolishly, callously dropped into the pot by so-called “leaders” unfit to carry their fucking jockstraps will amaze you no end. By the end of the flick, it’s the casual, dauntless bravery of those warriors that stays with you.
And if you didn’t already loathe and despise Jimmeh Peanuthead, I guar-on-damn-TEE that you will after watching this intense, perfectly-crafted movie. While we’re at it, fuck that goddamned brother-humping Ilhan Omar cunt-fart all to Hell and gone, too. Calls for a re-post of this timely classic, I do believe.
Heh. Make it so, Number One.
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“And if you didn’t already loathe and despise Jimmeh Peanuthead…”
I’m sure that an earlier helicopter event played on your mind Mike, but it was under Bill Clinton’s “watch” the the disaster in Mogadishu occurred.
In fact, as I have pointed out over the years, Clinton was directly responsible for the deaths of all the Americans that died that day. All he had to do was authorize the rescue using whatever means necessary to save them. He refused to do it.
Because Bill Clinton is an anti-American asshole.
Oh dang Barry, I swear I knew that. Just another age-related brain fart, I reckon.
🙂
I have those more often that ever…
I knew you knew it. Easy enough to get the two confused, both being bad, both having tragedy on their hands.