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  • Early in the film, after the helicopter extracts Hoot from his surveillance mission, they fly over some wild boar. Hoot, who hasn't eaten or slept in two days, takes one look at them.
    Hoot: Hey, who's hungry?
    • He follows this up with the happiest grin you see in the entire movie.
    • Then added to with a Gilligan Cut to back at the base, where a pig is being roasted on a spit.
  • Early on, General Garrison's increasingly-frustrated attempts to get their somali informant to do his job (marking the building where a meeting of high-ranking militia members is going to take place), leading to this exchange:
    Harrell: Now he's saying the building is a couple blocks farther down, but if he's seen outside he'll be shot.
    Garrison: [thoroughly exasperated] I'll fuckin' shoot him myself, "a couple blocks down"! You tell him to park his skinny ass in front of that building. He doesn't get paid until he does exactly that.
  • This exchange:
    Grimes: Why aren't you shooting?!
    Waddell: We're not being shot at yet!
    Grimes: How can you tell?!
    Waddell: A hiss means it's close, a snap means—
    [a bullet snaps right by them]
    Waddell: Now they're shooting at us! [fires off long burst from his M249]
  • Also, this:
    Pilla: Colonel! They’re shooting at us! They're shooting at us!
    McKnight: Well, shoot back!
  • In the middle of a firefight, Grimes is told by Sanderson to stay away from the walls. Grimes gives a perplexed look as he walks away. Cue an RPG hitting dangerously close to the wall next to him.
    [Sanderson shoots a few times and turns back.]
    Sanderson: [calmly] Grimes, you okay?
    [He emerges out of the corner covered in soot and partly deaf.]
    Grimes: Yeah!
  • Yurek, after getting separated from the rest of the squad, accidentally comes across Nelson and Twombley, who have also been separated. Nelson mistakes Yurek for a bad guy and shoots at him, forcing him to scramble for cover. He then realizes that it didn't sound like an AK...
    Yurek: Rangers?
    Twombley: Who?
    Yurek: It's Yurek, you fucking assholes!
    [Twombley gestures to Nelson that the latter almost shot a comrade.]
    Nelson: Fuck!
    Twombley: Dude, we almost fucking killed you! Well, come to us!
    Yurek: Fuck you! Come to me!
  • And the immediate foreshadowing to the above: Yurek encountering the same donkey that Twombly and Nelson just passed.
  • Twombly and Nelson.
  • Captain Steele catches Sgt. Pilla making fun of him in front of the men.
    • Followed by Steele putting Pilla into a headlock and dragging him off, giving him a quick verbal counseling on the importance of not compromising Steele's authority.
  • After Wolcott's bird crashes, A Delta Soldier climbs out of the helicopter with a Somali running towards him shouting... who is promptly gunned down by said Delta Operator.
  • Grimes complaining about his Soldiers at the Rear career, in particular having spent every major campaign he has participated in making coffee for other Rangers. After ending up in the worst of the fighting in Mogadishu, he copes with the stress of being trapped inside the city by making coffee using a pot he finds in an abandoned building.
    Sanderson: Grimesy, you are squared away!
  • Not seen in the final cut but in a different Camera Angle during the Target Building infiltration one of the Delta Actors Trips while entering the building and almost falls over but gets back up and continues running while everyone behind him is trying to hold in laughs

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