Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is November, like Thanksgiving, 2001.
We're going to go home as soon as the Tora Bora campaign is done.
And then the guys that were down there only packed like a three-day bag.
They stayed for about five days.
And then they're like, hey, we got to swap out.
So I took my flight down there with a better supplied group, you know, to stay longer.
And we're going to finish this up.
And then he hits the ceasefire.
He gets away.
And we just keep going.
We didn't stop for 10 years.
I did 10 years worth of deployments.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it started at the end of that deployment.
So March 2002, I was shot down during Operation Anaconda.
That's where the two medals of honor were issued for Brett Zielinski and John Chapman.
So...
it was interesting because I, I get shot down, I get rescued, I'm brought back to a forward operating base.
And one of the CIA personnel comes up and hands me a satellite phone.