A kaleidoscopic hail of tracer fire swept across the alley — green, red, orange — casting a neon glow on the darkened streets of Mogadishu. Shell casings showered down from helicopters as Spc. Arthur ...
If you’ve ever watched the movie “Black Hawk Down,” then you’ve seen a depiction of the horrors one Gulf Breeze man experienced during the longest night of his life. Ret. Army Col. Larry Perino, 53, ...
"I was sure my family were dead." Netflix has unveiled a trailer for Surviving Black Hawk Down, a 3-episode docu series that will be streaming on Netflix starting in February. The doc is a "360-degree ...
SAN DIEGO — A pivotal moment in U.S. military history is getting a fresh perspective as Netflix prepares to release "Surviving Black Hawk Down," a three-part documentary series chronicling the 1993 ...
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At the end of the movie “Black Hawk Down,” Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant (played by actor Ron Eldard) is sitting in a dark room as a prisoner of the Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, as a ...
FORT NOVOSEL, Ala. -Fort Novosel held a week of remembrance to honor the fallen of the Battle of Mogadishu and their efforts in Somalia in 1993. Included in the events were the Iron Squad Challenge ...
Mohamed Aidid was the leader of the Habr Gidr clan, who vied for power in the wake of the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre ...
The true story that inspired 'Black Hawk Down' is revisited in the Netflix docuseries 'Surviving Black Hawk Down' Netflix© 2025 The 2001 war film Black Hawk Down brought the deadly events of 1993’s ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — One of the secular warlords who lost control of Somalia’s capital to an Islamic militia vowed Sunday that the battle for Mogadishu was not over — an ominous warning for a city ...
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - It’s one of the most famous battles in military history, and involved Rangers trained on Fort Benning. More than a dozen heroes who took part in the Battle of Mogadishu were ...