November 13, 2002
Guess who I met...
Well folks, Skywalker here, the resident military/politics expert (oh yeah...I am...) and I had a great experience today. I go to GaTech and today we had Col. Danny McKnight, US Army (Ret.) speak this afternoon. I haveto say he was great! He was very articulate, had a lot of information to give and was all around just a really nice guy. He even let me and my younger brother have a picture taken with him.
Now, for those of you wondering who he is, and why this is so cool, read on!
Danny McKnight was the commander of Task Force Ranger in Somalia. Despite what you may think, they were kicking butt over there despite limits on their supplies and their men. He explained some of the innaccuracies of the movie Black Hawk Down (such as the men removing the rear plates of their kevlar vests - didn't happen, the vests didn't have rear plates.) If anyone wants some more information from his lecture, I would be glad to post a full story on it.
All in all, great guy and speaker. Now to try and post the photo...Oh btw, I'm the great looking guy on the left.
I want a full post on it! :-)
Posted by: Muddy at February 15, 2003 06:35 PM