Speaking of hacking with a machete, there was an awful lot of that in Tears of the Sun. A priest and the nuns who provided medical care to a Nigerian village were brutally hacked to pieces by Nigerian soldiers. Just as they are about to be chopped up, suddenly they start to act terrified. This was in stark contrast to just a few hours earlier when the Navy SEALS gave them the opportunity to be airlifted out of that hellhole. Back then, they bravely stated they would remain in the village to care for the inhabitants. Big mistake. Not only did they get chopped up but all the villagers were similarly slaughtered as well. So let me give all you priests and nuns (and everybody else) in Africa a little piece of advice. When Navy SEALS drop into your village to airvac you out, don't pull the hero routine since it ain't going to keep the villagers from being slaughtered in the long run.
Of course! Everyone knows that in reality, it was Colonel Erulin and his fellow *surrender monkeys* of the French Foreign Legion's 2eme Regiment Parachutiste went into the former Congolese mining town of Kolwezi during Operation Leopard/Bonito in 1978, while the American Ranger unit sat with their packs at Georgia's Hunter Airfield waiting for President Carter to give the orders that never came.
Fortunately for the 2000+ hostages, including several American citizens, the French Foreign Legion got the job done, at a cost of the deaths of five of their own, including one British-born Legionaire. And at least one of those American Rangers who through no fault of their own sat the fight out found an appropriate way to offer his own appreciation of the abilities of the Legion Paras: he resigned his commission as an American officer and joined the Foreign legion as an enlisted man in 1984. Seven years later, when US troops who'd made contact tried their high school French on a senior NCO of a Foreign Legion armored Cavelty unit they were stationed near, they were met with a reply of *Wow, you guys speak really lousy French. How about we try English, instead.*
--Lt Halbert on the road from Kolwezi to Lumbubashi S.E.R (Recon Platoon) of C.E.A -Support Coy -
The second week (with camo uniforms!) in the bush near Gekamine