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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden. 64,692 ratings, 4.30 average rating, 1,942 reviews. Open Preview. Black Hawk Down Quotes Showing 1-23 of 23. “No one gets left behind, you know that.”. ― Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. tags: inspirational-life.
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General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning. Atto: You shouldn't have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours. General Garrison: 300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war Mr. Atto.
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“I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.” ― Mark Bowden, quote from Black Hawk Down. Copy text. “And yet these Americans, with their helicopters and laser-guided weapons and shock-troop Rangers were going to somehow sort it out in a few weeks? Arrest Aidid and make it all better?
- Enjoy Your Meal. Captain Steele: Sergeant, what's going on here? Hoot: Oh, just some aerial target practice, sir. Didn't want to leave it behind. Steele: I'm talking about your weapon.
- We're It. SFC. Shughart: C-2, we're at the Six-Four crash site. Securing a perimeter. You all right? CWO Durant: Yeah, I'm good. Shughart: You're locked and loaded.
- Still Men Out There. Eversmann: You're going back in? Hoot: There are still men out there. 11 votes.
- I Can Barely Hear. Nelson: The Humvees ain't coming back, dude. Twombly: What? Were we supposed to go to them? Nelson: I thought they were supposed to come to us.
Hardcover. Trade paperback. Pages. 392. ISBN. 978-0-87113-738-8. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a 1999 book by journalist Mark Bowden. It documents efforts by the Unified Task Force to capture Somali faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, and the resulting battle in Mogadishu between United States forces and Aidid's militia ...
With Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana. The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
