Mike Durant - Best-Selling Author and Inspiration for the Movie Black Hawk Down

Mike Durant - Retired Chief Warrant Officer 4 Blackhawk helicopter Master Aviator in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment Airborne, also known as SOARA

On October 3, 1993, while piloting an MH60 Blackhawk in Mogadishu, Somalia, he was shot down and held captive by hostile forces. He was released eleven days later. He is the author of the NY Times Best Seller In the Company of Heroes and The Night Stalkers.

Today, he credits his harrowing ordeal for his success in business and his personal life.