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When Mike Durant came to at the crash site of Super Six Four, a crowd of armed Somalis was beginning to grow around him. Delta snipers Shugart and Gordon asked to be dropped in. When they were on the ground they moved to the crashed helo. As they arrived they found Durant in the crash and the two crew chiefs in the back. Ray Frank, the copilot of Super Six Four, had crawled out and was firing at the growing mob outside. Durant was startled when the two Delta operators showed up. He had expected to hear the sound of the convoy when rescue arrived and he hadn't heard a thing.
Durant did not realize that these two men were the only ones able to get to him at this point and was under the impression that there was a large rescue team there to save the crew. The two operators pulled Durant from the wreck and strategically placed him were he could provide cover with his firearm. He was impressed with the skill of the operators. As they left him to go defend the perimeter, he was relieved to be rescued but, a short time later, he heard the sound of Gary Gordon yell "I'm hit". Then Randy Shugart came back to Durant and gave him Gordon's weapon. Soon again, after Shugart left he heard him scream and then all was silent. The crowd came rushing around the crash and took Durant hostage.
Meanwhile, the men around the first crash site were fairing better. Several of the Rangers were hit and out of the fight but there were still enough to hold the perimeter. Captain Steele set up a perimeter and refused to move any further due to the heavy fire. It was also starting to get dark and none of the soldiers had brought night vision because the mission was supposed to last only two hours at the most and had expected to be home before nightfall. Now they were going to be stuck there all night because the ground convoy had long since returned back to base.
The Delta commanders had been beginning to get angry at Steele for his outright refusal to move. They needed to set up a tighter perimeter to make it easier for the little birds to make attack runs. Without Steele moving to a better position, their task was harder.