Black Hawk Down pt6

Two more 10th Mountain Companies were en route, and the UN's Pakistani and Malaysian forces had agreed to add their tanks and armored personnel carriers to the fight, but the logistics of assembling this polyglof rescue convoy would be daunting, and would take hours. In two more hours it would be dark. The men fighting for their lives out in the city knew nothing of the bigger picture. They could not see beyond the increasingly desperate struggle on their corner, and each still fought with the expectation that rescue was just minutes away, that's really the only reason they had the fight left in them because they knew they were trapped, but if thinking that rescue was on the way was the only way to keep surviving and not give up, then that was the only real option they had. It was either die or live by rescue/