The Sammies In Black Hawk Down

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During this part of Black Hawk Down, the rangers and the D-Boys are still trying to get to the second crashed black hawk in Mogadishu, Somalia. They have lost their humvee convoy and are traveling on foot to the destination to try to get the survivors. They are being pinned down because of how many Somali militia soldiers there are and how they are all over the place. The Sammies are shooting in every direction at them and there is close to no cover for the running American soldiers. This reminds me of the time I was playing paintball at a birthday party and how there were many people surrounding me and my teammates. We were playing against former U.S. Marines and it was just me and my friends on the my team. We had just started the game and

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