Black Hawk Down Page #5

The rest of you, secure this position!

Treat the wounded,

we'll wait for the convoy!

Then we'll rally at the crash site. Roger!

My guys, let's go!

C-2, I have two Delta snipers,

Shughart and Gordon...

...volunteering to secure crash site two.

Over.

No, Super 62, negative that request.

Can't risk another bird.

We don't see anything moving down there,

we don't even know if anyone's alive.

A ground team is being organized

to go in now.

ETA on ground team? Over.

Unknown, not long.

Do what you can from the air.

All right, gather around!

Durant's 64 is down.

We're going back in to get him!

That's crazy. Is there anyone alive?

Doesn't matter, no one gets left behind.

We're wasting time here.

We're wasting time here.

Refit and max out ammo and grenades,

you got five!

Sizemore, where are you going?

-With you guys.

-Not with that cast on you're not.

All right, all right, all right.

Go get your k-pot.

Talk to me.

I can't go back out there.

Thomas, everyone feels

the same way you do. All right?

It's what you do right now

that makes a difference.

It's your call.

Hoo-ah?

Hoo-ah.

It'll probably help to wash

the blood out of the humvees.

Sergeant Struecker!

Sergeant Struecker! Can I go, Sarge?

-You got some ammo?

-Roger, Sarge!

Hop in!

Wait!

Let's go, Thomas. Get in!

Which way?

-That way, I think!

-Not so f***ing loud.

Nice donkey.

Rangers?

Who?

It's Yurek! You f***ing a**holes!

F***!

Dude, we almost f***ing killed you!

-Come to us!

-F*** you, come to me.

Sorry, Sarge!

Dude, where the f*** have you been?

Never mind, you brought NOD, right?

No, I didn't and you want to know why?

Because you said, "You won't need that,

we'll be back in a half-hour."

Well, I wasn't saying it to you.

Nelson, cover this way.

We'll need night vision.

What's the matter with you?

Oh, he's deaf. It's my fault.

-We need to get out of here!

-That way.

We can't be far from the crash.

Which way?

I thought you might know.

Let's move out.

Nelson, Twombly? Come in. Over.

Nelson, Twombly, this is Galentine.

We need a position of the convoy. Over.

I can't raise them, Sergeant.

Sir, let's get the f*** out of here and evac!

-Let's move out.

-Back to the stronghold!

Come on!

Ground forces have occupied

several buildings along Marehan Road...

...but they're all spread out.

Eversmann's Chalk Four has set up

a perimeter around Wolcott's crash site.

DiTomasso is in the adjacent structure.

Captain Steele and about 40 men, Rangers,

are here, a couple blocks away.

They're banged up pretty bad.

He set up a casualty collection point,

I don't think they'll be able to move.

Sergeant Sanderson

and a small Delta team...

...are moving from Steele's position

to the crash site as we speak.

Draw off fire!

When this a**hole stops to reload,

cover me!

-Go!

-Sir.

Again!

Loading!

Keep going!

I'm jammed!

I got it!

No, sh*t!

RPG!

You all right? You okay?

Yeah. I can hear bells ringing.

Come on! Come on!

Go!

A crowd is advancing six,

seven blocks from the crash.

Shughart and Gordon

again request permission...

...to secure until convoy arrives. Over.

General, crowds are in the hundreds now.

From where they are,

they can see things clearer than any of us.

They know what they're asking.

Let me talk to them.

This is Garrison.

I want to make sure that you understand

what you're asking, so say it out loud.

We're asking to go in and set up

a perimeter until ground support arrives.

You realize that I cannot tell you

when that might be, it could take a while.

-Roger that.

-You still want to go in there?

Yes, sir.

-Colonel Harrell?

-Yes, General?

It's your call.

Roger that.

Goffena, put them in.

Motherf***er. Motherf***er.

RPG!

Set up your perimeter!

There's a f***ing rocket in him, sir!

Othic, calm down, goddamn it!

There's live ordnance, now get out!

Son of a b*tch.

All right, lift him up!

Lift him up! Easy, easy!

All right, get him in there! Good, good!

Easy, easy!

Get in that truck and drive.

-But I'm shot, Colonel.

-Everybody's shot.

We need the prisoners! Let's go!

Surveillance says to take Hawlwadig,

then go straight.

McKnight, we need you to turn around

and head back to Hawlwadig.

You're shitting me!

We just came through there!

There must be a better route!

That's the info I'm getting from JOC,

you need to turn around and head back.

Roger that. Roger that.

I cannot believe this sh*t!

Turn us around, Maddox.

They're trying to get us f***ing killed!

Just get it over with! Drive!

Goddamn!

Get us out of here, goddamn it, drive!

Keep your foot on the gas!

Keep your foot on the gas!

F***!

Sh*t.

C-2, Shughart and Gordon

are on the deck. Over.

Roger.

Friendlies!

God, it's good to see you!

It's good to see you. How bad?

My leg's broken

and my back feels kind of weird.

We've got to get you out of here.

I'm pulling him out! Cover!

Wait, l...

I'm putting you down.

C-2, we're at the 64 crash site,

securing perimeter.

-You all right?

-Yeah, I'm good.

You're locked and loaded.

Any skinnies come around these corners,

you watch our backs.

-Where's the rescue squad?

-We're it.

All right, stop, stop, Maddox. Stop.

Son of a b*tch.

Romeo 64, we're back where we started.

I'm low on ammo,

I got many wounded including me...

...vehicles that are barely running.

Okay, Danny,

I need a no-b.s. assessment here.

Can you get to the crash site?

Colonel, I can't see sh*t.

Negative.

With the amount of wounded we have,

we'd do more harm than good.

We need to come back to base, rearm

and regroup and then we can go back out.

Roger.

C-2, bring them back.

Get them out of there.

Roger. Return to base.

We're going home!

Let's go. Left.

Roger that. Understand.

Convoy returning to base.

-What's up?

-They're sending them back.

The convoy's headed back to base camp.

Oh, now that makes sense, don't it?

We need to exfil the wounded now

and get out of here before it's too late!

If Colonel McKnight went back to base,

then he had a good reason.

It changes nothing.

All right, listen up.

We're going to hold the perimeter

and we're going to hold the strongpoint.

Conserve your ammo.

Only shoot at what you can hit.

The convoy is going to come.

We're going to get home.

Loading!

Loading!

Randy, I need a pistol mag!

Loading!

Randy, last mag!

Gordy!

F***!

Gordy is gone, man. I'll be outside.

Good luck.

We need the 10th Mountain in there.

Everything they got.

Pakistanis, Malays,

I want their tanks and APCs.

They don't know we've gone in.

We have stirred up a hornet's nest here.

We're fighting the entire city.

I want every vehicle possible that's got

Once they've assembled, we'll move

our men out of the hostile area...

...and back to the Pakistani Stadium,

the safe zone.

-Now, let's go.

-Roger that.

On your knees! Get down! Get down!

Stay with me.

You just got a bullet in the leg.

See where those tires are burning?

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