Black Hawk Down quotes

View Quote MSG. Gary Gordon: (Final montage before credits) "My love: You are strong and you will do well in life. I love you and my children deeply. Today and tomorrow let each day grow and grow. Keep smiling and never give up, even when things get you down. So in closing my love, tonight tuck my children in bed warmly, tell them I love them, then hug them for me and give them both a kiss goodnight for daddy."

View Quote Multiple Soliders: "RPG!!"

View Quote (New arival Private Todd Blackburn reports in to HQ clerk.)
Private Blackburn: So, what's it like?
Specialist Grimes: What's what like?
Blackburn: Mogadishu. The fighting.
Grimes: Firstly, it's "the Mog" or simply "Mog". No one calls it "Mogadishu" here. Secondly, I wouldn't know about the fighting, so don't ask.
Blackburn: Why not?
Grimes: Didn't I just say, "Don't ask"? Look, kid, you look like you're about twelve, so let me explain something to you. I have a rare and mysterious skill that precludes me from going on any missions.
Blackburn: Typing.
Grimes: Can you type?

View Quote (Troops are having an impromptu barbecue with a wild boar killed by Hoot.)
Captain Steele: Sergeant, what's going on here?
Hoot: Oh, just some aerial target practice, sir. Didn't want to leave it behind.
Steele: I'm talking about your weapon. Delta or no Delta, that's a hot weapon. You know better than that. Your safety should be on at all times on base.
Hoot (holding up his index finger): Well, this is my safety, sir.

View Quote Lt. Beals: Ask Sergeant Eversmann. He likes the Skinnies.
Unidentified Chalk Four soldier: Sergeant Eversmann, you really like the Skinnies?
SSG Eversmann: It's not that I like them or don't like them. I respect them.

View Quote Cpl. Kurth: I don't know about you guys, but I was trained to fight. Were you trained to fight, Sergeant?
Eversmann: Well, I think I was trained to make a difference, Kurth.

View Quote [Grimes is making coffee]
SP4 Grimes: It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean, you're looking at the guy who believed the commercials, you know, about "Be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?" (he indicates Sizemore's cast) So, what happened to you?
Sizemore: Ping-pong accident. So guess what? Your wish has been granted. you're going out today.
Grimes: You're ****ing me!
Sizemore: You're taking my place assisting the sixty gunner. Sergeant Eversmann said to get your stuff and get ready. It's what you wanted, isn't it?
Grimes: (suddenly uncertain) Oh, yeah. Hell yeah.

View Quote SSG Eversmann: You know, it's kind of funny. Beautiful beach, beautiful sun... this could almost be a good place to visit.
Hoot: Almost.
Eversmann: You don't think we should be here.
Hoot: You know what I think? It don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.

View Quote General Garrison: Same mission template as before. At 1545 Assault Force Delta will infiltrate the target building and seize all suspects within. Security force, Rangers. Four Ranger chalks under command of Captain Steele will rope in at 1546 and hold a four-corner perimeter around the target building. No one gets in or out. Extraction force, Lieutenant Colonel McKnight's humvee column, will drive in at 1547 on Hawlwadig Road and hold just short of the Olympic Hotel, here, and wait for the green light. Now, once Delta gives the word, McKnight's column will move to the target building and load the prisoners on flatbed trucks. Immediately after the trucks are loaded the four Ranger chalks will collapse back to the target building, load up on humvees, and the entire ground force will exfil the three miles back to base. Mission time from incursion to extraction, no longer than thirty minutes.
[...]
[Cut to Matthews, McKnight and Harrell having a conversation on Garrison's briefing]
Colonel Matthews: What's the matter, Danny? Something you don't like?
Lt.Col. McKnight: No Spectre gunships, daylight instead of night, mid-afternoon when they're all ****ed up on khat, only part of the city where Aidid can mount a serious counterattack on short notice... what's not to like?
Colonel Harrell: Life's imperfect.
McKnight: Yeah, for you two, circling above it at five hundred feet, it's imperfect. Down in the street... it's unforgiving.

View Quote (The Rangers make last-minute preparations for the mission; Grimes is filling a canteen.)
Nelson: You're not gonna need that, dude. We're not out there long enough.
(Grimes sets aside the canteen and starts to pack his NOD night vision goggles.)
Twombly: You're not gonna need that, either. Might as well take dope and beer instead.
Grimes: What?
Twombly: Ammo, dude. Take ammo.
Eversmann: Grimes, the most important thing: if everybody else starts shooting, try and shoot in the same direction.
[...]
Eversmann: Blackburn, you okay?
Blackburn: Excited... in-in a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.
Eversmann: You ever shot at anybody before?
Blackburn: No, sir.
Eversmann: Me neither.

View Quote Pilla: They're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!
McKnight: Well, shoot back!

View Quote (Super Six One, Wolcott's Black Hawk helicopter, has taken an RPG hit; radio exchange follows.)
CWO Wolcott: This is Super Six One, I'm hit. I'm hit. Bull, you wanna pull those PCL's off-line, or what?
CWO "Bull" Briley: Right, babe.
CWO Wolcott: Six-one going down, Six-one going down. Hold on! Ah... (he breaks off on impact with the ground)
Col. Harrell: We got a Black Hawk down. We got a Black Hawk down.
Col. Matthews: Super 6-1 is down. We got a bird down in the city.
Unidentified Voice: Super 6-1 is on the deck now.
Gen. Garrison: Get an MH-6 on site, check for survivors. Send in the S.A.R. bird. I want ground forces to move and secure a new perimeter around that crash site. Can you guide the convoy in there?
Matthews: Roger that.
Garrison: Well, move quick. The whole damn city will be coming down on top of them. (Off radio, to executive officer) We just lost the initiative.

View Quote Sgt. Eversmann: There's a Black Hawk down. Twombly, Nelson — you're gonna stay stay here and hold this corner and then exfil with the humvees. Galentine, Schmid — your'e coming with me. All right? Let's go.
Nelson: How come I gotta stay back here?
Eversmann: Because you're dependable. (To Schmid and Galentine) All right, let's go!
Nelson: I hate being dependable man.

View Quote (A hasty planning session outside the target building.)
Sgt. "Griz" Martin: We still got guys inside.
Sgt. Sanderson: All right, all right. I'm gonna go to the crash.
Martin: You take the rest of the team, I'll finish loading the prisoners.
Capt. Steele: Negative! We'll proceed to the crash site together, secure the perimeter, and wait for the humvees. Roger, sir?
Lt.Col McKnight: Roger that.
Capt. Steele: Follow my lead. Sergeant, are you receiving me?
Sanderson: Yeah, I heard you. We should be leaving soon.
McKnight: All right, we need to move out now! I'll finish loading the prisoners and pick you up at the crash site.
Steele: Let's move out!

View Quote Harrell: Uniform 6-4, left turn, left turn.
McKnight: Romeo 6-4, I need to know before I get to the GOD-DAMNED STREET!
Harrell: You need to slow down. there's a delay from the time directions are relayed from Surveillance to JOC, and then to me.
McKnight: We can't slow down! We're taking heavy enemy fire, we can't slow down!
[...]
Harrell: You should see the crash site directly ahead.
McKnight: All I see is a roadblock!
Harrell: All right... I'll have to figure out another way.