Black Hawk Down Memorial Remembering CWO Donovan Briley

Doc Talks With Dr. Brian Sheppard

On this special Memorial Day release of Doc Talks, Doc Brian sits down with Micah Briley, Gold Star brother of CWO Donovan Briley. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Donovan Briley’s nickname was “Bull.” On October 3, 1993, Bull was the co-pilot of the lead Black Hawk in the United States’ mission to Mogadishu to snatch two Somali military leaders. Mr. Briley and his pilot, Cliff “Elvis” Wolcott, had safely flown Super-Six-One into the city. But they never left. Somali fighters knocked them out of the sky with a rocket-propelled grenade. Mr. Briley and Mr. Wolcott died instantly in the crash. When Donovan drew the assignment for Somalia, he and his family were living at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he was a Black Hawk pilot with the U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), better known as Night Stalkers. Micah tells of growing up with his brother in a military family and how all four boys were third-generation military members. Let us not forget the sacrifice that was made so that we can live in the Land of the free and the home of the Brave! For more information on Gold Star Family go to https://militarybenefits.info/gold-star-family/ You can find Doc Brian at: Twitter: talksdoc IG: doctalkswithdocb FB: doctalkswithdocb https://www.facebook.com/doctalkswithdocb https://www.instagram.com/doctalkswithdocb/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doc-talks-with-dr-brian-sheppard/id1536345675 https://open.spotify.com/show/1qSaIZ2lsOKDtL4ueox7FY https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6prIruH_Izrrx-0MWqJm9w/ https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=586625&refid=stpr https://www.deezer.com/show/1941482