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, sir, I think we just TF.

Train following radar.

I'll tell you in a minute.

We're all going to die.

We're going to TF.

And he goes, okay, execute.

And I'm thinking.

Holy crap.

I didn't know the SecDef had just called and said, get those in no matter what.

So I'm like, all right.

Jethro, my co-pilot from West Virginia, I said, press a button.

The cues come up.

And the cues for the radar keep you 300 feet above the terrain.

So it'll descend you, climb you in the mountains, fly in between the mountains.

But it's all a little video game that he's moving the controls based on the cues that he's seeing.

It is nowadays, but it wasn't then.

It was all what we call commanded.

So he's flying this thing.

And the reason we weren't allowed to use this at the time for real in training was because your iPhone ever bricked up on you?

Like just sort of locked up and you had to do a hard reset?

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