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 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.

And right between us and just behind us is the air mission commander.

So he's the guy really responsible for the decisions that are being made.

And he goes, Al, what are we going to do?

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