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By Michael J. Durant
Piloting a U.S. military targeted Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant used to be shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade on October three, 1993. With devastating accidents, he was once taken prisoner via a Somali warlord. With revealing perception and emotion, he tells the tale of what he observed, how he survived, and the braveness and heroism that merely squaddies less than fireplace may possibly ever comprehend.
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No one swam here anymore. I glanced down at my watch. It was midafternoon, just past 15:30. My wedding ring gleamed from my watchband, where I placed it anytime I was working. The sharp edges and hardware of military aircraft are notorious for snagging the rings of married men. I had met more than one pilot or crewman lucky to still have ten fingers after having one reattached. The formation banked out wide to orient into the wind. With any aircraft assault, you pretty much always want to land into the wind.
I had known them for almost five years. I stood outside my helo, and while Bill geared me up I handed out the intel photos and briefed the other pilots and crews real quick. I looked in their eyes to make sure they understood everything and didn’t have any questions. They nodded and took off like ducks scattering from a gunshot. Captain Steele, company commander of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment, was already herding eighteen of his men into our bird. He was a huge man, probably 280 pounds of solid muscle, and had been a lineman for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Everything else was already in my helo, Super Six-Four, sitting there fully armed and mission-ready as always. All the systems would be up, radios working, miniguns loaded, preflight checks all done. That was why I loved flying with Ray and my crew chiefs, Tommy Field and Bill Cleveland, so damned much. Everything was always perfect. Tommy, in his late twenties, had a race car back in his garage in Lisbon, Maine, and he treated “his helicopter” no differently from that hot rod. The wheels were always slick with Armor All, the windshield washed after every mission.