Alan C. Mack
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Yeah.
So what they did is they gave me a couple of armed Blackhawks.
They're called DAPs, direct action penetrators.
Fantastic aircraft.
Very, very deadly.
But it doesn't have the performance to go into the mountains where I have to take these guys.
So he's going to take me as far as he can.
And I like to, you know, describe this as like I was reading a book on World War II, you know, the bombers.
And it's like, you know, the fighter cover would go only so far.
And, you know, either turn around or wait for you to come back out.
What was left would come out.
So that was the goal.
We're going to go in, he'll hang out wherever he can.
And that started the night.
So we took off.
Oh, and by the way, the country of Uzbekistan, their military didn't agree with us being there.
so they threatened to shoot us down.
Oh.
And so they had all these, you know, radar guided missiles.
I mean, really nasty things.