Alan C. Mack

We're back in the game, guys.

And I turn back toward the hill again.

50 seconds.

So 50 seconds goes by.

I can't move it again.

He puts another can in.

He's got three cans.

Holy cow.

So now I realize I can't reasonably land on top of the hill and get everybody back off.

And I'm still responsible for the other SEALs and my crew.

I can't just go down there and hit the meat grinder.

So my second aircraft, Razor 04, is still out there.

So I'm hoping he can go do the rescue.

I can't do it.

I'm going to need to be rescued.

So instead I turn now back to battle, and the idea is to identify a friendly position and land near it.

So I set up a rate of descent, and I'm sorry for being technical here, but about 300 foot a minute, about 70 knots.

And the idea is that maybe...

If I lose the controls again, when we get to the bottom, maybe that's a survivable impact.

You know, I mean, it's going to be ugly, but maybe somebody lives and we get down to the, he puts the fluid in the last time and we get down to the bottom and what looked like nice, smooth terrain.