Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I remember telling my crew, if we see an IR strobe, we're going to go check it out.
And if they give the right visual signals, we are going to land and pick them up.
Okay.
No one disagrees.
We're flying along.
The crew chiefs see what they think is an IR strobe.
I fly around.
I look and I'm thinking, I don't, I don't see it.
I'm not going to get analysts.
I know for sure.
So we go back and I store the coordinates on the computer.
You know, you press the button says, okay, here's what it is.
We get back to Bagram, and I remember thinking, ah, that wasn't anything.
So I don't retrieve the coordinates from the aircraft.
So we go back.
We do an after-action review, take a shower, go to bed.
And now I'm like, what if it is?
So I had to go wake somebody else up because I wasn't allowed to drive on the flight line because I can't drive in a parking lot.
And he drives me down.
I pull the coordinates out.