However, he had all kinds of fractures and internal damage. “We eventually reached our base and Todd was still alive. They would send their kids out to get run over and stop our convoy. “Those people in Somalia were horrible people. He was looking straight at me and I could see the life going out of him. It was just like in the movies, he clutched his weapon and went down in slow motion. “By the time we passed by the insurgent there were three of us shooting at him. Marc Good’s vantage-point of a Ranger who was flying in to attack a war lord during the “Black Hawk Down” incident in 1993. This is a Black Hawk view of Mogadishu, Somalia from Pvt. The Ranger was killed instantly, but the guy beside him didn’t even know he had been hit.
One of the Somalian insurgents’ bullets hit one of our guys in the head in the truck in front of us. “One Somalian clan member came running out from behind a building with this rifle on his hip. I remember we kept stopping with our Humvee because they keep shooting at us on the way back. “The return trip to base is kinda blurry after all these years. When I told him who it was he started freaking out. Lo and behold, the guy that got on top of the Humvee with us to provide security was his best friend. “Todd had a best friend he went through basic and Ranger School with. I requested a rifleman ride with us on the top of the Humvee to give us some security. “On the return trip to base I was sitting out in the open beside Todd’s litter holding his IV bottle. That’s when our mission changed to a crew rescue mission. It was right about this time we saw a Black Hawk crash a few streets away.
That’s when we loaded all the wounded aboard and headed back to base. “We probably went another 10 steps carrying Todd down the street on a stretcher when these Humvees came flying by us and finally stopped. “Thank God for the close ground support of the Black Hawk,” Good recalled sitting at his dining room table telling his story almost 20 years later. The Ranger was severely injured when he fast roped from his helicopter to the ground. Marc Good, an Airborne Ranger medic who graduated from Venice High School in 1988, was part of the Third Ranger Battalion. As the chopper flared out in the middle of the main drag it cleared the roof tops of enemy fighters in a single sweep of its machine guns. The Black Hawk helicopter’s twin 7.62 millimeter mini-gatling guns blazed away at the insurgents shooting down on the American Rangers from roof tops in the downtown Bakaara Market area of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. Rangers fast-rope to the ground from a Black Hawk helicopter hovering above the town of Mogadishu, Somalia during the “Black Hawk Down” fiasco.
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