black hawk down section 5

Yes!!!!.. the last section in the book. This is when the book really get good, at least according to me. In this final section a huge rescue team  is in pursuit of the teams. The only big problem that occurs is that they take a while to finally reach the soldiers. Then an unthinkable thing happens, which is when they leave one group behind. I think the truck drivers were complete wimps for leaving. Those men are probably the bravest men i have ever heard of because they did not give up but fought their way out. I am surprised of how nice Durant's captors were. He was truly lucky that they gave him food an medical attention and overall not killing him. It was sad when they had to relay the messages to the families where loved ones died. I felt that it was really cool at the end though when they all sing God Bless America.

Black Hawk Down section 4

This chapter is not one of the most action packed sections in the book. I say this because in this section they are pretty much just stacked out in houses during the night because they didn't bring their night vision goggles. It was pretty gross when they are talking about the injuries especially when they talk about the soldier how got shot and they can not close an artery that got spilt. So they are talking about how blood is going everywhere. It is pretty bad when they have to tie a soldier up to a board to move him to another room. The bad thing is, is that they can not get a med vac there to rescue the injured. I think it was really crazy when one group had to cross a road to get up to the other teams. The difficult part of that is that they had injured soldiers so it was an even slower process giving the Somalians a better chance to hit them.

Black Hawk Down section 3

In section three things continue to go bad. The CSAR rescue team is continually trying to get to the second downed black hawk. They are having trouble getting there because of road blocks where the Somalians are releasing heavy fire on them. While that is going on they have soldiers trying to reach the checkpoints but is increasingly difficult because of the heavy fire being inflicted upon them. The rescue ground soldiers make it there and are surprised at how many of the men are still alive. The first person they spot is Durant who has both of his legs broke. They set him aside where he starts releasing fire on a mob that is running up the street. He runs out of ammo and is captured by the Somalians who beat him in the street. It is crazy how it explains how he wasn't even in his body but was above looking at himself being beaten.

Black Hawk Down section 2

As usual in this book there is a great amount of blood and gore. In this section another Black Hawk goes down. This helicopter is taken down by an RPG(rocket propelled grenade). There is a rescue team sent out to help both of the downed helicopters, but there is miss communication from the spy copters so the rescue team makes the wrong turns and get lost while trying to get to the downed helicopters. In this attempt 8 soldiers die or have casualties. True leadership is shown by Jonathan Howe, an admiral in charge of the American Operation. The whole point of this war is to help the Somalians but i feel as if the Americans are just destroying Somalia and not getting anything accomplished.