GREEN BERETS React to Black Hawk Down | Beers and Breakdowns

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Glad to see Army Special Forces guys reactions to this incident. My father was SF in Nam, KIA in 64. So I decided to join as a medic. Figured I could save someone else's father. Thanks.

Shugart and Gordon the Delta snipers that protected the crash site that day. And ultimately sacrificed themselves. Those were true warriors of a special breed of men. Never forget those two brave beyond words.

The two snipers you spoke about, Sughart & Gordon, Gary was one of my close friends that a day never passes without me thinking about him. Hard to believe it will be 30 years this Oct, a truly special person he was. It is amazing to think being a generation before you how different modern SF seems to be but similar at the same time. And of coarse all these years later, big Army still doesn't know what to make of SF.

One thing that I really wish had made it into the movie was HOW they negotiated the release of Durant. The US negotiator met with a representative from Adid. After listening to their list of demands said... And I paraphrase... If Durant isnt released in 24 hours then no one could stop the onslaught that the entire US military would bring down. Basically saying that they would level the city. Durant was released within hours. In an interview, the negotiator said it was the easiest negotiation he was ever a part of.

"We are just green berets" - loved that line.

“Math might be a problem” absolutely killed me 😂 love the knowledge from you two legends!

I served 5 years in 10th Group. Then went to Aviation and was assigned to 10th Mountain at Ft Drum right after the Somalia SNAFU. What isn't shown in the movie and has gone pretty much ignored is the support that came from the AH-1 Cobras during the convoy mission to rescue the forces over whelmed in the city. The movie shows the ground convoy, but the supporting Aviation is not in the movie. One W4 had 3 Cobras shot out from under him supporting that mission and he just jumped into another and went back in the fight. I met him as he was out processing as I was getting established to set up the Cav with their new Kiowa Warriors. He was thin with silver hair and very laid back. You would never have guessed he was The Man. A lot of men came back home because of him.

I live in Mogadishu, Somalia, and I vividly remember this war, even though the events of the movie only revolve around a specific operation; the war continued for several more days. As you mentioned in your discussion, regarding the tactics used in the RPGs against helicopters, Russians trained General Aid and his team during Siad Barre's government. P.S Currently, Somalia is a close ally of the United States. Thank you guys for the in-depth analysis of the movie.

Ranger Regiment developed the walking blood bank sometime in the early 2010s - this is 20 years too early for that. This is the event that caused the development of Tactical Combat Casualty Care and the injury you were talking about with the arterial wound high in the pelvis ( too high for a tourniquet ) was the origin for the development of quick clot. remember in 1993 even tourniquets were generally unused with the feeling that it would cause limb loss. This engagement was the pivotal moment in combat medicine in the last 50 years that spurred all the development that lowered combat casualty rates and improved survival in the last 20 years of war.

Sean and Kurt sharing memories is the best! Cueing off the movie to explain and expand using their own lived experience... these videos just get better and better.

Randy and Gary are 100% heroes. I have no doubt they knew they were going to die securing that crash site.

The two Delta Operators, MSG Gary Gordon and SFC Randall Shughart, posthumously received the Medal of Honor for their sacrifice to save Super 6-4 pilot CW2 Michael Durant. When I was in PLDC I did my research paper on them and the cadre asked me to read it again on graduation day. I'm glad you commented on their character being representative of the caliber of men Delta has. Anytime we worked with them (in support or training) we were always in awe.

It was an honor doing this with you guys. Learned so much during the filming and had a blast just hanging out.

My father is a retired green beret. I used to hang out with the teams a lot but I have never actually known what he did. Watching you guys makes me feel like I can better understand with something’s.

I watched this with my dad when I was around 12 in '04. To this day no scene in any movie has ever made me feel the way the Randy Shughart and Gary Gordon scene did. Hard to describe at 12, but it was like something grabbing your soul making you feel every emotion a human has. No other way to put it but those two are an example of the pinnacle of what a man should be.

There is a great short documentary by SGT Struecker who went back to Mogadishu about 20 years after these events. It was quite something as he was in a secure convoy driving back through the streets they fought on and he was re-telling everything that he experienced during that operation.

I watched this in Uzbekistan in 2002, during Operation Anaconda. While we were watching, one of the scenes was actual footage shot from a P3 Orion. My copilot says: “Oh. That’s our video.” We stop the movie and ask him “what did you say?” He replies that he was one of the pilots in a P3 filming the operation and that overhead footage was captured by his crew. We were stunned. I’m just a guard baby, but as I learned more about the people I served with I was truly honored to have served with some great people (like my friend the Night Stalker.”

43:53 If im not mistaken, Randy Shughart (the delta sniper) actually ran with a non magnified reddot optic on his M14, specifically for engaging targets better from the heli. Great stuff guys.

That snap of a passing bullet is one of the reasons (besides being cheap lol) that the majority of Marine Corps rifle ranges still make you pull "pits" RE: RPGs not only did they understand where to shoot, but they also figured out they needed to weld in blast deflectors so when they shot the RPGs at an upward angle towards helicopters they wouldn't be hurt or killed by the backblast of the RPG going off.