LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/wires/20010626/tCB00a3595.html

Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Pentagon Sent Black Hawk Helicopters to Movie Set

Reuters

    WASHINGTON--The Defense Department sent four Black Hawk helicopters
and about 35 members of the elite Army Rangers to Morocco for the filming
of the movie "Black Hawk Down," a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.
In total about 100 military personnel were deployed rotationally
from early April until early June to participate in the filming of the
movie, which depicts the chaos in Somalia in 1993.
The full cost of the military deployment, except salaries, estimated
at $3 million will be reimbursed by the production company, Marine Lt.
Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said.
Revolution Studios, which is making the movie, was formed by former
Walt Disney Studios Chairman Joe Roth after he left the entertainment
giant in January 2000.
The film stars Josh Hartnett of "Pearl Harbor," Tom Sizemore, Ewan
McGregor, Ron Eldard and Jeremy Piven and is being directed by Ridley
Scott, according to the Internet Movie Data Base.
"We provide support based on what we perceive to be the value in the
end," Lapan said. "In this case obviously everybody knows the negative
outcome of Mogadishu but anybody who read 'Black Hawk Down' knows there
was some heroic and courageous stuff that happened," he said.
In October 1993 18 U.S. soldiers who were part of a U.N.
peacekeeping mission in Somalia were killed in battles with rebels during
attempts to capture Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed.
An actual deployment order was given to the military personnel
participating in the filming, most from Fort Bragg in North Carolina,
because there were not any U.S. troops stationed in the area, Lapan said.

Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times

This is old news.  The 160th sent Blackhawks and Little Birds and they're already back home.  Pretty much a non-event if you ask me.  I just hope the movie does TFR justice.

-SARguy