{"id":31088,"date":"2019-03-30T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/30\/new-black-hawk-down-documentary-tells-story-of-soldiers-who-saved-rangers-delta-force-troops\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:42:49","slug":"new-black-hawk-down-documentary-tells-story-of-soldiers-who-saved-rangers-delta-force-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2019\/03\/30\/new-black-hawk-down-documentary-tells-story-of-soldiers-who-saved-rangers-delta-force-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Black Hawk Down\u2019 documentary tells story of soldiers who saved Rangers, Delta Force troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=821919f4-c7fd-4940-8c33-9b72b8da0fb3\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-821919f4-c7fd-4940-8c33-9b72b8da0fb3.png\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trailer for Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than a quarter century, the story of the Battle of Mogadishu, popularized by both the book and film versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2018\/08\/02\/this-black-hawk-down-special-operator-is-still-fighting-but-on-a-different-front\/\">\u201cBlack Hawk Down,\u201d<\/a> has focused on the Army Rangers and Delta Force team members caught in the worst urban combat the U.S. military had seen since the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new documentary tells the story of the 10th Mountain Division soldiers who rescued those Rangers and Delta operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randalllarsenpresents.com\/\" target=_blank>Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story<\/a>,\u201d is a documentary made by retired Air Force Col. Randall Larsen, who also served in the Army during his 32-year military career. Larsen\u2019s production company previously produced the documentary \u201cOperation Whitecoat,\u201d the story of 2,300 conscientious objectors who volunteered for biological experiments at Fort Detrick, Maryland from 1954 to 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2018\/10\/02\/the-battle-of-mogadishu-25-years-later-how-the-fateful-fight-changed-combat-operations\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-103326764.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The Battle of Mogadishu 25 years later: How the fateful fight changed combat operations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A generation later, Army leaders can still learn from the harrowing battle of 1993.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Larsen met now-retired Brig. Gen. Bill David, who commanded 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division during its deployment as a quick reaction force in the Battle of Mogadishu years ago while both were doing advanced academic degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it wasn\u2019t until last year, as the 25th anniversary of the Oct. 3, 1993 battle approached that Larsen, himself a Vietnam War combat veteran, realized the role that 10th Mountain played in that intense fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs I started peeling the onion and looking into this thing I thought, \u2018Oh my God this is an incredible story and I didn\u2019t know it&#8217;,\u201d Larsen told Army Times. \u201cI\u2019d read the book when it came out. I\u2019d seen the movie. I\u2019d sat in bars with Bill and kind of heard it a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2860\" height=\"2032\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg 2860w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg?resize=300,213 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg?resize=768,546 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,728 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1091 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/D-2-Troops-Loading-on-trucks.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1455 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2860px) 100vw, 2860px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. A new documentary, &#8220;Black Hawk Down: The untold story,&#8221; showcases their role in the legendary Battle of Mogadishu. (Randall Larsen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, despite promising his wife he\u2019d retired from filmmaking after the previous documentary, Larsen kicked production into high gear and completed an early version of the film in time for the anniversary last year at Fort Drum, New York, home of the 10th Mountain Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The movie was screened for a select audience at the International Spy Museum and the Army Navy Club this week. It is available for presale on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Hawk-Down-untold-Story\/dp\/6317752958\/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=black+hawk+down+untold+story&#038;qid=1553615928&#038;s=gateway&#038;sr=8-1-fkmrnull\" target=_blank>Amazon.com<\/a> and the DVD version, which includes bonus interviews with veterans of the fight and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, will be for sale at Wal-Mart stores beginning in May. It can be <a href=\"https:\/\/valoroustv.com\/video\/black-hawk-down-the-untold-story-directors-cut-2019\/\" target=_blank>live streamed online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the work was worth it when a veteran of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion came up to him afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, all these years I\u2019ve been telling my son what I did, and he says, \u2018dad, that wasn\u2019t in the movie,\u2019\u201d Larsen said the veteran told him. \u201cMy son will finally believe me now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David echoed the comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think this film does a heck of a lot to validate what they\u2019ve been telling their family members for decades now,\u201d the one-star said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film opens with the beginnings of Operation Restore Hope, when, in 1992 then-President George H.W. Bush ordered Marines and 10th Mountain Division soldiers to Somalia to secure vast stores of food aid that had been sent to starving citizens caught up in a devastating civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initial stages were largely successful, reducing famine and fighting. Most of the force was pulled out, except for portions of 10th Mountain and later Task Force Ranger, made up of elements of Delta Force, 75th Ranger Regiment and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, were tasked with taking down the infrastructure of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who was escalating fighting among the factions, threatening to plunge the nation into deeper strife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a mission to capture some of Aidid\u2019s lieutenants, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and members of Task Force Ranger were killed while others were pinned down without a way to safely extract the dead and wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was supposed to be a 30-minute mission that started in mid-afternoon became an all-night shootout to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first attempt to reach the two crash sites and also find the Rangers and Delta operators was a rapid response by 10th Mountain soldiers in Humvees and open trucks lined with plywood and sandbags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Delta Force Col. Lee Van Arsdale, a lieutenant colonel at the time with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment, noted the tactical problems immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1036\" height=\"728\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/H-1-Super-64-crash-site.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/H-1-Super-64-crash-site.jpg.jpg 1036w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/H-1-Super-64-crash-site.jpg.jpg?resize=300,211 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/H-1-Super-64-crash-site.jpg.jpg?resize=768,540 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/H-1-Super-64-crash-site.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,720 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1036px) 100vw, 1036px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A new documentary, &#8220;Black Hawk Down: The untold story,&#8221; showcases the role of the 10th Mountain Division in the legendary Battle of Mogadishu.The soldiers went to the two helicopter crash sites to recover equipment and look for survivors. They also rescued the Rangers and Delta operators stranded in the city. (Randall Larsen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top Pentagon brass had asked that the units have armor long before the operation but that was denied by then-Secretary of Defense Less Aspin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWho goes into combat in an unarmored Humvee in an urban environment? We do,\u201d Van Arsdale said at the screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somali fighters were ready and unleashed barrage after barrage of AK-47 fire and rocket-propelled grenade launcher rounds at the vulnerable vehicles. They\u2019d also created barriers with crushed vehicles and burning tires to funnel the soldiers into choke points for ambush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had to withdraw, return to base and refit. Quick calls managed to get Malaysian Armored Personnel Carriers and Pakistani tanks to join the formation from the United Nations peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But complications ensued. Language barriers and restrictions from those forces\u2019 commanders later meant the APCs, not the tanks, would lead the charge on the second attempt at the sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And lack of training with the vehicles became clear for the 10th Mountain soldiers immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t even know how to open the doors,\u201d one veteran said in the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they sped back into the city, heading on a new route to the crash sites and stranded comrades. En route, however, two of the APCs were hit with RPGs and drivers were knocked off course, separating those two vehicles, and the soldiers inside, from the rest of the convoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fight continued as the main element continued on, yet was stymied when tank commanders refused to roll through barricades and soldiers had to dismount in the middle of a firefight to remove heaps of trash from the streets so the APCs could get to their objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For nearly all of the soldiers, this was their first taste of combat. For the Army it was the most substantial urban fighting since the Battle of Hue City in Vietnam 25 year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After block-by-block fighting and house clearing while incoming fire rained from all sides, the 10th Mountain soldiers reached the stranded troops, loaded the wounded onto vehicles and egressed. At the time the \u201clost platoon\u201d of two vehicles was thought to be dead as they lacked communications for most of the battle with the other element and with headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they were able to rejoin the rest of the convoy as dawn was breaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fighting only increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One soldier in the documentary said heading into the crash sites he fired one, 30-round magazine. Heading out, he emptied four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/E-1a-Condor-2.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/E-1a-Condor-2.jpg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/E-1a-Condor-2.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/E-1a-Condor-2.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A new documentary, &#8220;Black Hawk Down: The untold story,&#8221; showcases the role of the 10th Mountain Division in the legendary Battle of Mogadishu. These are the Malaysian Armored Personnel Carriers used to bring them to the fight. The soldiers went to the two helicopter crash sites to recover equipment and look for survivors. They also rescued the Rangers and Delta operators stranded in the city. (Randall Larsen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With all accounted for, they made it back to the Pakistani stadium where medical care had been set up. With broken communications, the toll wasn\u2019t clear until many saw the bodies of the fallen and the wounded laid out on stretchers on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as the first attempt to reach the Rangers and Delta operators failed, David said he had a flashback to a conversation he\u2019d had years ago in infantry training with a general, in which he was told that he was expendable, but not to \u201cstain the colors of your regiment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As that memory flitted through his mind, he made his own resolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just made my mind up, we\u2019re not going to stain the colors tonight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And after the harrowing mission concluded and both his men and the Task Force Ranger troops and the fallen had been recovered, his intent fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think we did the 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