Fort Drum Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Battle of Mogadishu

What Black Hawk Down was based on

Twenty years after the Battle of Mogadishu, Col. Drew R. Meyerowich recalled he had no doubt that his soldiers would go to aid comrades from two downed Black Hawk helicopters.

"Hearing your buddy's in trouble, there's no question that we're going to go in," said Col. Meyerowich, at the time the commander of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment's Alpha Company. "It's just because of what we believe in."