[Vauss]

Just read Black Hawk down. If these were their best troops, they are in big trouble. Kill ratio was at least 30-1 in our favor. Also, if troops had been better trained, or if we had just been a bit more lucky, things could have gone our way even better. Biggest mistake was trying to take down the bigwigs during the afternoon when the khat addicts were all hypered up.

[Travis McGee]

This report fails to mention the critical role played by converted "anti helicopter" RPGs, which had the normal contact fuses replaced by a time fuse to produce an airburst.

Four low flying US helicopters were struck by simple RPGs in this manner.