"About the Black Hawk Down event, Howard Wasdin said in his memoir that were they to send the SEALs in one chopper, they would evac the first crashed chopper in time before hostiles descended on them. Were that assessment to be true, all the ensuing bloodbath would have been avoided, there would have been no second black hawk crash and no convoy getting lost and got hammered. What's your opinion ?"
Asked by Anonymous
Well he was on the ground in Somalia, so he has a unique prospective no one else but the men who were there have. So it is quite possible his assumptions are accurate. In my opinion, there is a reason every member of Task Force Ranger was inserted the way they were. Special Operations Command have some top notch General Officers, Officers and NCOs. What ever the reasoning for the dispersion of troops, it was probably viable. There are so many things that can go wrong in war, even the perfect plan is only theoretical. Things change fast, and sometimes you have to improvise and hope lady luck plays a fair hand. Mogadishu was a tragedy, but had the men on the ground not been SOCOM right down to the Rangers, many more men would have been KIA.
