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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Quinny Cantara picks one oh six, highly decorated
Del Dea Force member Tom Satterley on the phone, and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You were you were?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You're featured in Surviving Black Cow Down, but that's because
you survived Black Hawk Down.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Where were you on that day in ninety three?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Ninety three? I was at the first crash site after
the hit mission for the target and then I ended
up at the first crash site a little bit north
of the zone we were at.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And what what are we going to learn? I mean,
we've all seen the movie and that can't be like
real life? How how how does this documentary portray to
what do you how do you think it'll live up
to our expectations if we fell in love with that movie?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, great question.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I myself, I'm excited to watch this documentary. I don't
know some of the true life stories that happen, because
when you're in combat, all you see is your story
and that's the only story you can tell. So the
movie was telling a mix of all the stories. And
it's a good movie. It's you know, it's it's Hollywood
is this and that, and it's great. However, this documentary,
what I'm excited about is that the real life stories
that come out. You get the stories from the other side,
(01:00):
you get the humanitary part, and you get you get
to hear the heroic stories that I don't think they
could individualize in the movie. So now you get to
hear from the actual people to include Durant who was
capturing Hill behind enemy lions. So there's so much more
to this documentary than than with the movie. That really
will lay it out for those who are interested in
the real, actual truth on the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Listening to Tom Satterley highly decorated Delta Force Combat that
he's a contributor to three part docu series Surviving Black
Hawk Down on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Right now, Sir, I, in the movie, they portray uh,
you guys putting like duct tape on your boots and
writing your blood type on your duct tape, or using
like the duct tape to wrap around the grenades without
the pins. Way, is that that really that really happened
that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And it does really happen. I think the tape is
more for a safety so you don't pull the pin
or the pin get pulled out and integrated strena blows
up on your body. But a lot of times people
forget to pull the tape as well. But there were
people were putting that I did I put my blood
type on my boots. Both of them leave so if
something got blown off, they still know your blood type.
And you know, it's just kind of things guys picked
up that once you go to war, you realize the
(02:07):
horrible things that can happen, then you start to prepare
for them.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
How is how is? How is war and war fighting different?
You know now?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And you know from two thousand until now, you know
versus back then?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It is?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
It is it dramatically different?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, back then in ninety three, I was I
was a young guy. I was running around doing what
I was told. And then during the Global War and terear,
I'm running around. I'm in charge of guys now, which
is even a whole other concern of stress for me.
I'm on top of buildings with a notebook, trying to
track my teams, you know, with a pen and pencil,
and then I'm on the radio tonnel where they go.
But now with the technology, you got drones you can
(02:43):
send ahead of You've got flip down screens on your shirt.
I mean, these have things I couldn't never dream of
when I was in That make the job easier, but
also make it more difficult. You know, once you have technology,
you can counter with the technology, so you always have
to continue with the basic skills of combat.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I know it's totally unrelated, but when we had that
horrific story out of Washington National involving a black Hawk helicopter,
my mind immediately goes to black Hawk down.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Where is your mind?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yo?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Tom My mind went to the individuals on both aircraft
and their families. I know the devastation that they're going
to go through, the loss, the unexplained instant loss of
life from everyone that was just heading out to do something,
you know, specially fun that day. I know I've been through.
I can't imagine the horror they're going through. So that's
that's where I went to directly and did.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You real quick back to the technology aspect of fighting
and that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The hope is that you guys won't have to be right.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Down in the middle of the thing, but there's always
going to be a need for somebody to go get
some guy in Mogadishu who's killing people for no reason.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Right Sadly, I believe. So I believe that there will
always be somebody out there that wants to hold onto
power and use corruption and pain and anger and death
to stay there.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Hopefully we can get them from a ship next time, though,
you know, with a laser.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I just saw that. I'm excited. I hope it worked.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Did you see that picture of that warship? That was amazing?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I did, and I started looking up and studying. I
was like, Okay, it takes this. It's like two dollars
to shoot, but you know, you got to recharge it.
But then again, it's not a million dollars to shoot something.
So that's good for the bean counters for sure. And
if it works and it's quicker, I think it'll protect
our troops a lot more.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Tom Saturley, highly decorated Delta Fort Forest combat veteran.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
How how are you still current? What's your current role now?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
My current role is bringing our warriors and their families home.
We've started an All Secure Foundation and what we do
is we help special operations and warriors and their families
recover from postmat e stress and reintegrate back into life
and help them with their families at home.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
How dark if I get ask did it get for you?
After all you've seen and done.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I've had a pistol in my hand, pointed it on
my head about two or three times, and I've been
standing in front of my wife banging a pistol off
my head, begging her to let me take my own life.
She still strong, she kept me up going through the
Modaldi's and you know, here we are on the other side,
still struggling to stay happy and on this side of
the grass.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Really appreciate the honesty on that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, this is your wife, Jenho who you work with, right, correct,
That's that's an as amazing as the black Hawk down
story is. That may be the most compelling thing heard
on the radio today. So thanks for being honest.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Thank you. I think we realized that the suicides always
exceed the number of combat related deaths, Like we're at
twenty three suicides from Samaria, where we had eighteen lost
in life, and in current warrant care we had five
six hundred and fifty three some odd warriors killed in
combat in about sixty eight some one hundred thousand that
have taken their lives since then, So it's a bigger
it's a bigger deal.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Than War is Wow when you see Cameron Diaz doing
you know, Delta Force moves on Netflix and ain't a
crap like that?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Does it bother you? Or are they actually doing the
right thing? Are they doing it correctly?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I just wish I had their cash for doing and
I know that. I you know, they get trained and
as fun as long as they don't believe it themselves.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Everybody's doings.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
We all need to get away. We all need to
get away form my real life.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
We're looking forward to watching Surviving Black hawk Down on Netflix.
Can you watch the movie or is it too tough?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Or have you seen it? Or has that worked for you?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I watched it once when they first did the premiere
with all of my friends that were there, and we
all made fun and made fun of each other, so
it was okay. I saw it, but I have not
been able to watch it since. I tried a couple
of times I watched.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Was watching that extended version last night? And where? Who
Where am I looking for you?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
In the movie?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I would have been at the large crash, so the
first one we everybody was trapped. Okay, That's where I
spent my night after fighting our way there, we stayed
there all night and then they had to fight our
way out on the on the Mogadishi model.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, the movie was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I cannot wait to devour the Netflix documentary. Tom Saturley
decorated Delta Forest Combat Vet and featured in Surviving black
Hawk Down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Thanks for the thanks for the time, Thank you, sir,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Appreciate it.
It is Quinny Cantara picks one oh six, highly decorated
Del Dea Force member Tom Satterley on the phone, and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You were you were?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You're featured in Surviving Black Cow Down, but that's because
you survived Black Hawk Down.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Where were you on that day in ninety three?
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Ninety three? I was at the first crash site after
the hit mission for the target and then I ended
up at the first crash site a little bit north
of the zone we were at.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And what what are we going to learn? I mean,
we've all seen the movie and that can't be like
real life? How how how does this documentary portray to
what do you how do you think it'll live up
to our expectations if we fell in love with that movie?
Speaker 5 (00:38):
Yeah, great question.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I myself, I'm excited to watch this documentary. I don't
know some of the true life stories that happen, because
when you're in combat, all you see is your story
and that's the only story you can tell. So the
movie was telling a mix of all the stories. And
it's a good movie. It's you know, it's it's Hollywood
is this and that, and it's great. However, this documentary,
what I'm excited about is that the real life stories
that come out. You get the stories from the other side,
(01:00):
you get the humanitary part, and you get you get
to hear the heroic stories that I don't think they
could individualize in the movie. So now you get to
hear from the actual people to include Durant who was
capturing Hill behind enemy lions. So there's so much more
to this documentary than than with the movie. That really
will lay it out for those who are interested in
the real, actual truth on the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Listening to Tom Satterley highly decorated Delta Force Combat that
he's a contributor to three part docu series Surviving Black
Hawk Down on Netflix.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Right now, Sir, I, in the movie, they portray uh,
you guys putting like duct tape on your boots and
writing your blood type on your duct tape, or using
like the duct tape to wrap around the grenades without
the pins. Way, is that that really that really happened
that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
And it does really happen. I think the tape is
more for a safety so you don't pull the pin
or the pin get pulled out and integrated strena blows
up on your body. But a lot of times people
forget to pull the tape as well. But there were
people were putting that I did I put my blood
type on my boots. Both of them leave so if
something got blown off, they still know your blood type.
And you know, it's just kind of things guys picked
up that once you go to war, you realize the
(02:07):
horrible things that can happen, then you start to prepare
for them.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
How is how is? How is war and war fighting different?
You know now?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And you know from two thousand until now, you know
versus back then?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It is?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
It is it dramatically different?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know, back then in ninety three, I was I
was a young guy. I was running around doing what
I was told. And then during the Global War and terear,
I'm running around. I'm in charge of guys now, which
is even a whole other concern of stress for me.
I'm on top of buildings with a notebook, trying to
track my teams, you know, with a pen and pencil,
and then I'm on the radio tonnel where they go.
But now with the technology, you got drones you can
(02:43):
send ahead of You've got flip down screens on your shirt.
I mean, these have things I couldn't never dream of
when I was in That make the job easier, but
also make it more difficult. You know, once you have technology,
you can counter with the technology, so you always have
to continue with the basic skills of combat.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I know it's totally unrelated, but when we had that
horrific story out of Washington National involving a black Hawk helicopter,
my mind immediately goes to black Hawk down.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Where is your mind?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yo?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Tom My mind went to the individuals on both aircraft
and their families. I know the devastation that they're going
to go through, the loss, the unexplained instant loss of
life from everyone that was just heading out to do something,
you know, specially fun that day. I know I've been through.
I can't imagine the horror they're going through. So that's
that's where I went to directly and did.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
You real quick back to the technology aspect of fighting
and that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
The hope is that you guys won't have to be right.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Down in the middle of the thing, but there's always
going to be a need for somebody to go get
some guy in Mogadishu who's killing people for no reason.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Right Sadly, I believe. So I believe that there will
always be somebody out there that wants to hold onto
power and use corruption and pain and anger and death
to stay there.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Hopefully we can get them from a ship next time, though,
you know, with a laser.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I just saw that. I'm excited. I hope it worked.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Did you see that picture of that warship? That was amazing?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I did, and I started looking up and studying. I
was like, Okay, it takes this. It's like two dollars
to shoot, but you know, you got to recharge it.
But then again, it's not a million dollars to shoot something.
So that's good for the bean counters for sure. And
if it works and it's quicker, I think it'll protect
our troops a lot more.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Tom Saturley, highly decorated Delta Fort Forest combat veteran.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
How how are you still current? What's your current role now?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
My current role is bringing our warriors and their families home.
We've started an All Secure Foundation and what we do
is we help special operations and warriors and their families
recover from postmat e stress and reintegrate back into life
and help them with their families at home.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
How dark if I get ask did it get for you?
After all you've seen and done.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I've had a pistol in my hand, pointed it on
my head about two or three times, and I've been
standing in front of my wife banging a pistol off
my head, begging her to let me take my own life.
She still strong, she kept me up going through the
Modaldi's and you know, here we are on the other side,
still struggling to stay happy and on this side of
the grass.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Really appreciate the honesty on that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, this is your wife, Jenho who you work with, right, correct,
That's that's an as amazing as the black Hawk down
story is. That may be the most compelling thing heard
on the radio today. So thanks for being honest.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Thank you. I think we realized that the suicides always
exceed the number of combat related deaths, Like we're at
twenty three suicides from Samaria, where we had eighteen lost
in life, and in current warrant care we had five
six hundred and fifty three some odd warriors killed in
combat in about sixty eight some one hundred thousand that
have taken their lives since then, So it's a bigger
it's a bigger deal.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Than War is Wow when you see Cameron Diaz doing
you know, Delta Force moves on Netflix and ain't a
crap like that?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Does it bother you? Or are they actually doing the
right thing? Are they doing it correctly?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I just wish I had their cash for doing and
I know that. I you know, they get trained and
as fun as long as they don't believe it themselves.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Everybody's doings.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
We all need to get away. We all need to
get away form my real life.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
We're looking forward to watching Surviving Black hawk Down on Netflix.
Can you watch the movie or is it too tough?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Or have you seen it? Or has that worked for you?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I watched it once when they first did the premiere
with all of my friends that were there, and we
all made fun and made fun of each other, so
it was okay. I saw it, but I have not
been able to watch it since. I tried a couple
of times I watched.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Was watching that extended version last night? And where? Who
Where am I looking for you?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
In the movie?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I would have been at the large crash, so the
first one we everybody was trapped. Okay, That's where I
spent my night after fighting our way there, we stayed
there all night and then they had to fight our
way out on the on the Mogadishi model.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, the movie was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I cannot wait to devour the Netflix documentary. Tom Saturley
decorated Delta Forest Combat Vet and featured in Surviving black
Hawk Down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Thanks for the thanks for the time, Thank you, sir,
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Appreciate it.
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