Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
life went good, you know?
So it's got to be my lucky thing, you know?
But as I'm walking out, everybody's watching me walk by in the mud.
You know, the taxiway was all mud.
It's that thick clay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, this is right after 9-11.
We're going to take the fight to the enemy.
F&A.
And it felt good.
No, I was terrible at math.
Yeah.
You do.
I mean, I can save my life with it, but no, I'm not any good at math.
I was more into history.
Well, I was good at the math that mattered.
Yeah, yeah, because that clearly seems to have been- Basically trigonometry and geometry.
So they go do their thing, the ODA, and a couple of days later, they take Mazar-e-Sharif, which is the key to the north, and the Taliban withdrew to Kabul.
And then a couple of weeks later, now in the meantime, we're still doing, you know, in the movie, it's like one ODA out there, one team of Green Berets, but I think we put 21 teams in total over the course of like the first two, three weeks.