The now-legendary story of the U.S. Army's 1993 mission to capture top lieutenants loyal to Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid was documented in Mark Bowden's 1999 book.

Presenter Eddie Muller talks about "G.I. Blues" with Army veteran Leslie Smith. (Turner Classic Movies) A week after the 9/11 attacks, Smith volunteered to go to Bosnia as part of Operation Joint ...

And these little movies were going to all feed into Army of the Dead," he said at the time. "Then, this movie, I don't want to say it got gigantic, but it grew to the scale that it needed to grow to.