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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And I said, uh,
Well, as long as you didn't make us look like I've seen in every other movie, which is you get the badass special operations guys coming in and they're flying low.
And all of a sudden someone shoots a pistol at them and they all run into each other and shoot at us.
And he goes, I think you're going to like it.
And my point to that is the general and his staff heard us talking on the internal comms and they didn't know we were being shot at because the conversational tone was
you know, missile two o'clock evading, you know, descending, speeding up.
Yeah.
But you know, what happens is you, you do the mission and then you come back.
And when you've done the after action review and you kind of sit down, you know, at the mess hall and you're eating, you know, that's when it dawns on you.
Oh crap.
We almost died.
Yeah.
You know, and I wrote about that in the book that,
In the first week or two, the other flight lead, there was two of us, flying out of Task Force Dagger in K2, Karsha Kanabad.
We snuck off to discuss how we thought we were going to— Oh, I like this scene with the liquor scene.
Yeah, the CIA brought us a bottle of Jack.
And we each had a little... This humanized you.
We each had a little snort, and... So set the scene.
So we've done a couple of missions into Afghanistan, and...
Really, you know, I talked about the environment being one of the most dangerous parts of flying.
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