Alan C. Mack

We're part of it anyway.

But we, you can't see out the window.

Like it's dark and it's really dark.

And it's like, wow, I don't see the mountains anymore.

So I turned the search light on

And there's a saying in flying that if you don't like what you see in the church light, turn it off.

Because what we saw was dust.

It just- What do you mean?

You were in a dust storm?

We were in a dust storm.

So, you know, I've got the radars up and I can see the terrain with the radar.

and the daps are tucked in as tight as they can on me because their night vision goggles can see the heat from my engines.

So there's two circular orbs in the back, the engine exhaust.

And as we increase power, obviously they get hotter, and they can tell we're on a climb.

So they just sort of climb and stay with it.

Well, one of them couldn't see us anymore, so he had to break off.

And then the other one turned around as well.

And then the colonel, the battalion commander, is in my jump seat.

So the jump seat is like I'm sitting in the left seat.

There's a right seat pilot right about here, and I could hit him.