Alan C. Mack

You know?

And he's like,

He goes, you tell Mulholland, who was our colonel at the time, now a general, he goes, you tell him to get those teams in tonight.

You've been given a lot of equipment, a lot of training, a lot of money spent.

You do it.

And he hung up.

That game changed from there forward.

Well, this was in the day, and it would have been a repeat of the next night, and I wouldn't have brought the 595 guys in because we were always trying to leave an aircraft as a spare, and we don't like to fly a single ship.

So I had to give one of my Chinooks to the other team to carry what they needed over the big mountains.

So that's why you had everybody.

So now the game changed.

I'm going to fly a single ship.

Yep.

So by myself with all 12 guys in their gear.

And I'm not going to have enough gas to do it.

So we do air refueling, but we at the time never planned on air refueling being an only way to get gas.

You always had a spare gas somewhere.

In this case, you didn't.

Oh gosh.

You either got your tank or you didn't.