Alan C. Mack
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1,629 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Alan C. Mack’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It can be, yeah.
The flying isn't so bad.
It's the landing and takeoffs because you get all the dust, right?
And you can't see out the window.
Yeah, that is less safe than being able to see out the window for sure.
No, I mean, we hauled, you know, cargo and, you know, the, um, the famous, uh, Norman Schwarzkopf left hook, you know, we were part of that.
So we were part of, I think it was a hundred, 125 Chinooks in flights of five flying up into objective Cobra, bring it up, uh, artillery resupply fuel.
No, no, it's not bad.
Oh, we were very excited.
Over Fallujah.
You know, right.
I look back now and it's like, that was pretty tame compared to what came later on.
But we also, I had more experience later on.
I had better equipment, better training.
So in 91 and 2001, so I get back.
So the army had this saying, we own the night, right?
Because of the night vision goggles.
And what we found out in Saudi Arabia is we did not own the night.
We were, as we joked, leasing it or renting it because everybody was flying into the top of these dunes.
So the dunes in Saudi Arabia, you see them in the movies, Lawrence of Arabia, all this stuff.
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