A must watch.

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Great doco made by those that were there so much more to this story than any book or movie ever portrayed a very humbling documentary.
I never knew that the U.S force command on the ground in Mogadishu had earlier on before the raid had requested from the U.S M-1 Abrams & Bradleys but were denied by the govt !
The complexity of the rescue mission is so underplayed in the movies, the U.S troops had never been in those types of U.N vehicles they could not even open the doors!
They never stated or shown in the movie that one Blackhawk they were trying to extract the dead pilot/co-pilots from was actually upside down they had a dickens of a time trying to cut them out & right the chopper all the while under intense fire.
The 2 tanks they had were forbidden to lead the column instead went in the middle, they refused to crash a road block then reversed up and sat there !
There was a language barrier with the AFV drivers, one GI put it we were a RPG magnet an all white vehicle also none of the troops were forced to run back to the stadium they were all packed in vehicles.
They got everyone back, they honoured the lines "Leave No Man Behind".
Anyway enjoy it certainly filled in allot of blanks for me.
12/10 rating from me.

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