Matt Eversmann Quotes

In these chapters we learn about the main characters, and their mission to take down Habr Gidr clan leaders in Mogadishu. The main character of this book is Matt Eversmann, leader of his chalk four, this was the first time he was leading the chalk therefore he was nervous. It was his job to protect everyone on his chalk, one of the people in his chalk was a kid named Blackburn, he was the baby of the group, and it is Matt's job to protect him. Their job is to just cover a corner of the block around the targets house, it is a simple snatch and grab job that turns out to be much more complicated. The job is only supposed to take an hour, after they have launched with the code word Irene. This was the first time Matt Eversmann will be going out
For me this is the scary experience because I have a kid in my chalk that is not even trained yet. It is my responsibility to protect him at all costs. If I make the wrong calls all of us could die, and I do not think I will be able to live with myself if my team died because of me. I have been praying all day that nothing goes wrong, and this turns out to be a simple snatch and grab mission, going all according to plan. The plane is taking off and I have never been this nervous or scared in my life. We make it to the location and we are just hovering above it, and there is sand everywhere I can’t see anything. There are bullets flying everywhere and the pilot moves the plane a little too far and we are couple blocks away from our location, and I don’t know what to say when the pilot asks me what to do. I make a decision that I am not so sure of, and I say to just drop us off here, everyone starts to get off, and I am the last one to exit the plane. When I am going down I see a body and my heart sinks, I am thinking did someone die already? When i get on the ground I see it's the kid Blackburn and I get furious because he fell off the plane, he didn't get shot. How did this kid fall off, did he not grab the rope? I feel bad for him so I call the medic but he says that he can’t really do anything. I am trying my best not