Friday, May 9, 2014

Black Hawk Down Objective Summary

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In parts 1-6 of Black Hawk Down the author, Mark Bowden switches between many characters such as Eversmann and Garrison. Bowden starts out with the beginning of the mission, when the task force is flying into the city of Mogadishu on the Black Hawk helicopters. Everyone is doing their jobs on the mission, and everything is going well except that a soldier fell from a helicopter. During the mission, the soldiers have to find ways to kill the enemy without harming the civilians the enemy's hide behind. In many cases civilians are killed by accident or on purpose, because they had no choice. Bowden shows the exciting side of war and the ethical choices of war. The mission takes a turn for the worst when a black hawk is shot down. The mission changes for the task force, and what was a routine mission turns into a brutal firefight. It's up to the young, 20 year old rookie soldiers to save the black hawk pilots and get out of Mogadishu alive.

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