"Black Hawk Down": question for soldiers?

[MountainRaven]

Since it was 1993, I suppose the rifles were M16A2 with fixed carry handles and 3 round burst? Does anybody know?

Photos that I've seen show mostly Colt 723s and 733s (14.5" and 11.5" barrel CAR-15s) for Delta and Rangers.

I'd guess 10th Mtn had M16A2s.

[OH58D]

Since it was 1993, I suppose the rifles were M16A2 with fixed carry handles and 3 round burst? Does anybody know?

It was the M16A2 for most, fixed carry handle and every kind of optic mounted on top you could imagine. Some older varieties of the CAR-16. Three or four months before we deployed the end of August 1993, I received my first MP5 which I stowed in a compartment in the back.

My 1st Sgt was a private with 10th Mountain that went in at the end. He had stories of that day. The once thing he said that really never made public knowledge was the amount of women who were fighting as well.

When you say women fighting, I assume you are referring to the Skinnies? I saw a lot of women and kids armed with a variety of small arms, some I wasn't able to identify from my aerial platform, nor was I inclined to slow down and take a closer look.

[Sam]

Photos that I've seen show mostly Colt 723s and 733s (14.5" and 11.5" barrel CAR-15s).

That's Deltas guns. People like Paul Howe have said they had the early Aimpoint red dots. Also from pictures, the Rangers carried M16A2.

Out of that battle, the variable power combat scopes became popular with the tier 1 units. LAV said that was when they experimented with the Schmidt & Bender scopes. He said he was still carrying his Colt 723 and Aimpoint (2000 I think) when they were hunting Scuds in Iraq during Desert Storm. That was only a couple years before Somalia.

https://youtu.be/56Si24-yEzQ

[C-grunt]

When you say women fighting, I assume you are referring to the Skinnies? I saw a lot of women and kids armed with a variety of small arms, some I wasn't able to identify from my aerial platform, nor was I inclined to slow down and take a closer look.

Yes, female enemy combatants.

[SteyrAUG]

Photos that I've seen show mostly Colt 723s and 733s (14.5" and 11.5" barrel CAR-15s) for Delta and Rangers.

I'd guess 10th Mtn had M16A2s.

Funny enough I just finished watching this one today.

[SteyrAUG]

Yes, female enemy combatants.

Don't forget guys laying prone shooting with their kids sitting on their backs while they do it.