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🗓️ 17 October 2018
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Tom Satterly fought in the Battle of Mogadishu and ran the “Mogadishu Mile” as part of his first deployment as a Delta soldier. It was the first in a special operations career that spanned into the War on Terror, including the capture of Saddam Hussein and combating the new enemies who tried to fill the power vacuum the toppled leader left. In the end, though, is the question of how a special forces operator copes with reintegrating into a society that doesn’t need specially trained soldiers.
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0:00.0 | We infilled, right at dark, it was an alkyd training cell. |
0:20.4 | They were ready, they heard the helos come in, they start passing out guns, black hot comes |
0:24.2 | in short rope. |
0:25.2 | As soon as it starts to lift off, it takes an RPG to the rotor blades. |
0:29.2 | Tom Satterley and the rest of the Delta operators learned some hard lessons during the battle |
0:36.9 | of Mogadishu. |
0:38.5 | They learned about mortality in very personal ways, they also learned about urban combat |
0:43.1 | in a way that even their extensive training hadn't covered before. |
0:47.3 | But the battle of Mogadishu was the first of an almost uncountable number of battles |
0:51.5 | for Satterley in a career that stretched from Somalia through Bosnia and Iraq all the way |
0:56.9 | through to an anticlimactic finale in a parking garage in Akron, Ohio. |
1:02.1 | Parton Grudge was offset from the hotel through a tunnel that connected the building. |
1:05.5 | So I'm kind of by myself in this parton grudge and I got my gun on my lap, you know, I got |
1:09.7 | my, my gloc on my lap and I'm thinking, you know what, I'm done. |
1:13.6 | I'm kind of like everything else in my life just it came to me. |
1:17.8 | That's how fast me wanting to be out of this world came to me. |
1:26.9 | What is true bravery? |
1:45.8 | What makes a hero a hero? |
1:49.0 | Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality |
1:54.1 | of what you're facing here and now when your life is in danger every second and it's |
2:00.4 | either killed or be killed from wondering and in congruity media. |
2:07.5 | This is Anthony Russo and this is war. |
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