Ep. 202 | Michael Durant | 160th SOAR Black Hawk Pilot

Michael is a former 160th SOAR Black Hawk pilot who served in Operations Prime Chance, Just Cause, Desert Storm, and Gothic Serpent. Michael was held captive after his Blackhawk was shot down in Mogadishu and wrote about the ordeal in his book In The Company of Heroes.Support the showhttps://patreon.com/formeractionguyshttps://jcramergraphics.comhttps://ANGLICOshop.com00:00:00 Intro / Joining the Army00:10:35 Drive to Become a Pilot00:18:20 Midair Collision in Flight School00:21:11 From OH-55s to Black Hawks00:24:05 Learning to Fly From Vietnam Pilots00:28:00 Medevac in Korea00:37:39 Hearing About The 160th00:42:01 Accidentally Checking into the 101st Airborne00:50:09 Most Difficult Type of Flying01:01:09 160th Assessment | Green Platoon01:06:01 Surprised by the Mission | 1st Deployment with 160th01:10:34 Black Hawk Armament 01:12:53 Operation Just Cause01:21:27 Hunting Scuds in Iraq01:28:45 Gothic Serpent | Mogadishu01:38:34 Things are Starting to Go Wrong01:43:34 Super 64 is Going Down01:51:35 I Thought They Were the Rescue Force01:54:02 Prisoner of War