{"id":85644,"date":"2025-12-10T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85644"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:59:11","slug":"flying-over-the-mog-to-the-tune-of-take-it-easy-by-the-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/flying-over-the-mog-to-the-tune-of-take-it-easy-by-the-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying over the MOG (To the tune of Take it Easy by the Eagles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">*This was taken from the Documentary <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j8jMj3Mn4KQ&amp;t=539s\">Battle of the Black Sea<\/a>,<\/em> Msgt. Paul Howe&#8217;s Untold Story of Black Hawk Down.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/k5qxwk6nevaa1.jpg\" alt=\"r\/JSOCarchive - C Squadron during Operation Gothic Serpent. Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">I was flying down the road trying to shoot another load<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve got seven sammies on my mind, four that wanna stone me, two that wanna hose me, one he&#8217;s very hard to find<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Take it Easy, Take it Easy, Don&#8217;t let the sound of your own gunfire drive you crazy,<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fire them up while you still can maybe the press will understand, sometimes you gotta take a stand, Take it Easy<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Well I as flying rel low over downtown MOG, such a wild site to see<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">It was four my Lord in amongst a horde, rising up to take a shot at me!<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Come on Sammy, hiding behind Granny, I&#8217;ve got 4,000 rounds of mini that&#8217;s gonna spray you<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">You will Lose, no way to Win, so open up I&#8217;m driving in, Take it Easy<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Well I&#8217;m flying real low trying to find Radio MOG, signals to my front and behind<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Searching from a hover, I&#8217;m gonna blow my cover, it so hard to find<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Take it Easy, Take it Easy don&#8217;t let the sound of your own gunfire drive you crazy<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fire them Up while you still can, Fuck the Press if they don&#8217;t understand<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sometimes you gotta take a stand, Take it Easy.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Hawk Down Newly released historical footage\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hX_wr15Mryw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*This was taken from the Documentary Battle of the Black Sea, Msgt. Paul Howe&#8217;s Untold Story of Black Hawk Down. &nbsp; I was flying down the road trying to shoot another load I&#8217;ve got seven sammies on my mind, four that wanna stone me, two that wanna hose me, one he&#8217;s very hard to find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[495,1286],"tags":[4027,1638,784,14761,763,791],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85646,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85644\/revisions\/85646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}