Black Hawk Down Page #7

Hold your fire! Hold your fire!

Ground personnel will have to mark

target positions with infrared strobes.

Get Little Birds on strafing runs

and keep them going all night long.

If we don't hold back this city...

...we'll have a 100 caskets

to fill by morning.

Yes, sir.

Colonel Harrell,

ground personnel at crash site one...

...will have to mark the target

with infrared strobes to prep for air strike.

McKnight.

Between the 10th Mountain and U.N.,

we got enough personnel, okay?

Danny, you guys do not have

to go back out again.

I can't die here, man.

You're not going to die, all right?

You're not going to die.

I'm sorry.

You don't have anything to be sorry for.

You saved Twombly. You did perfect.

You okay, Twombs?

Yeah, I'm okay, Jamie.

You did what you were trained to do.

You should be proud of that.

Be proud of that.

-Ev?

-Yeah.

Do me a favour.

You tell my parents

that I fought well today.

And that I fought hard.

You're going to tell them yourself, okay?

Do you hear me?

All right?

-Are the humvees here?

-They're coming, Jamie.

They're coming.

You just got to hang in there a little bit.

-You hold on for just a little bit.

-I can.

I can.

It's nothing.

It's nothing.

It's nothing.

-It's nothing.

-It's nothing.

Nothing.

Oh, sh*t.

Hold the wound.

Doc.

Doc.

It's okay.

What are you doing?

We need the ammo.

You did all you could here.

They should've sent a medivac.

Right now we'd be out there

defending another crashed chopper.

More men would get torn up.

Maybe.

See, you're thinking. Don't.

Because, Sergeant, you can't control

who gets hit or who doesn't.

Who falls out of a chopper or why.

It ain't up to you. It's just war.

Yeah, well, Smith's still dead.

-This all happened because Blackburn fell.

-Should have, could have, don't matter.

You'll get plenty of time

to think about all that later. Believe me.

Sergeant, you got your men this far.

You did it right today.

You need to start thinking about

getting these men out of here.

Well, shall we?

I need four guys in this corner now!

RPG!

This is Barber 52 in position for gun run.

Jesus Christ. Look at that.

This is 25! I can see you.

You're right above me.

Eversmann, I can't tell who's who

down there. Too much activity.

I'll mark the target with a strobe! Over.

Roger that.

You see it?

Nah, I can't see sh*t.

-I'm putting it on the roof.

-You're going to need help!

Cover me.

Okay, guys, we're going to lay down

some cover fire for him on three!

Ready?

One.

Two.

Three. Go!

I got your position. I got the target.

We're inbound and hot.

C-2, miniguns dry. Request permission

to return to base. Rearm. Over.

Roger that. Second team inbound.

Your station.

On your location, four minutes.

All right, they're here.

Get the wounded ready to move.

Lay down some cover fire!

I thought I heard a noise out here!

-Load up. We're getting out of here.

-Yes, sir.

and will be with you in about 5 minutes.

Prepare your men for exfil.

Yeah, roger that, sir! Roger that!

Five minutes! The convoy is going to be

here in five minutes!

I need a mag! Eversmann, I'm out!

My last one!

The convoy is here!

Sergeant Eversmann.

I heard you guys needed a lift!

Yes, sir!

Bring your wounded

and start loading them up!

Hey, I got you. I got you.

It's okay. I want to walk.

Yeah, I would too. Let's go!

Move!

We get the pilots' bodies out,

and then we go to the stadium.

We're running out of room around here.

Cram into every possible space.

Okay, 10th Mountain provides security

for armour, walks us out of the hot zone.

Sir, with respect,

my Rangers can provide rear security.

We'll walk you out of the hot zone,

then we'll jump on the last few vehicles.

Okay, let's get out of here.

Let's go.

-All right, you got him?

-Yeah, come on.

Come on!

These things are f***ing bullet magnets.

Come on, let's go!

We go when I'm ordered to, soldier.

Careful.

Easy. Go easy.

Easy.

Colonel, what is going on down there?

They're dismantling

the entire cockpit around the body.

How long is it going to take?

I need an honest, no-sh*t assessment.

They can't say!

Danny...

...no one gets left behind.

You understand me, son?

Yes, General.

Do what you have to do.

Roger.

-Come on. Bring him through.

-I got him.

-Get all his gear. Get the wounded out.

-Got you, sir!

-Move!

-Got you!

Move out! Move out! Let's go!

F***!

Fire in the hole!

-Let's go! Move!

-Let's go!

-Open the hatch! We got men back here!

-No room here! Go on the roof!

What's going on?

-The roof?

-I'm not getting on no f***ing roof!

No, no, it's full.

We're running out. Keep moving.

Use the vehicles as cover.

Move it! Let's go!

All right, hold it up. Hold it up.

-Move!

-Go! Move!

Go!

Get down! Get down!

Get down, lady!

I'm out of ammo!

Sanderson, I'm out of ammo!

Don't you do it.

-What are you doing?

-Don't you damn do it.

Kurth, let's go!

Easy.

Ah, sh*t.

Bullet missed your jugular by

about three millimetres. Don't move.

Hurry up, hurry up.

Little short on coffee,

but I got you some tea.

How you doing, soldier?

Can't feel a thing.

Take his pulse.

Hey, Sarg'nt.

Captain.

Lorenzo. How you doing?

It went in and out, so the medic said

I should be okay in a couple of days.

That's great news.

Are we going after them?

You bet your ass we will.

We got to regroup.

Don't go out there without me.

Don't go back out there without me.

I can still do my job.

You get some rest now, okay?

You're going back in?

There are still men out there.

Goddamn.

When I go home...

...and people ask me:

"Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man?

"Why? You some kind of war junkie?"

I won't say a goddamn word.

Why?

They won't understand.

They won't understand why we do it.

They won't understand

it's about the men next to you.

And that's it.

That's all it is.

Don't even think about it, all right?

I'm better on my own.

We started a whole new week.

It's Monday.

I was talking to Blackburn the other day...

...and he asked me, "What changed?

Why are we going home?"

And I said, "Nothing."

But that's not true, you know.

I think everything's changed.

I know I've changed.

A friend of mine asked me

before I got here...

It was when we were all shipping out.

He asked me:

"Why are you going to fight

somebody else's war?

"What, do y'all think you're heroes?"

I didn't know what to say at the time...

...but if he asked me again, I'd say no.

I'd say there's no way in hell.

Nobody asks to be a hero.

It just sometimes turns out that way.

I'll talk to your ma and pa

when I get home, okay?

My love, you are strong

and you will do well in life.

I love you and my children deeply.

Today and tomorrow,

let each day grow and grow.

Keep smiling and never give up,

even when things get you down.

So, in closing, my love...

...tonight, tuck my children in bed warmly.

Tell them I love them.

Then hug them for me...

...and give them both

a kiss good night for Daddy.

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