The story behind the infamous downing of an American Black Hawk helicopter by Somali gunmen. | dG1fejlQUFZXSGpTQlk
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00:00I don't know what the other guys were thinking, but I was kind of thinking, wow, you know,
00:10we're pretty much invincible.
00:16Up until October 3rd and 4th, every mission we did went exactly the way it was supposed
00:23to go.
00:32He walked up to me and he told me he had a really bad feeling about today, meeting October
00:373rd, and he tried to hand me his little packet to send off to his parents, and I said, no,
00:44keep it.
00:45I said, you know, I'm going to see you in about half an hour anyway.
00:47I said, nothing's going to happen, and that was the last time that I saw him.
00:54I know when our helicopter came in, we immediately started taking fire from the ground.
01:02All of a sudden, they're already shooting at us.
01:14I was just shooting everything that moved.
01:16It didn't matter to me.
01:17You know, I just started to yell, I'm hit, I'm hit.
01:22It was one nasty gunfight.
01:24I was bowing.
01:27I've actually killed a person.
01:31His eyes were wide open and his mouth was open like he was screaming, but he had already
01:36died.
01:37He was already dead.
01:39I know, I guess it's unethical to shoot women and children, but is it unethical when they're
01:46trying to kill you?
01:50I felt so alive because I was literally that close to death.
01:58What are we doing here?
01:59How have we mucked up so badly?
02:00How could this possibly have happened?
02:06It's the closest thing to a national holiday in a country without a national government.
02:11On the day of the Ranger, Somalia remembers America's bloodiest battle since the Vietnam
02:16War when the world's greatest military power collided with one that was nearly good enough.
02:23New world order descended into chaos as the most ambitious humanitarian mission in modern
02:29history ended in bullets, missiles, and death.
02:37But if the moral seemed to be no good deed goes unpunished, that isn't the story of how
02:42good intentions wrought deadly results in Somalia.