Alan C. Mack

I give them to the intel guys, and I say, well, I don't know if this is anything.

So they sent those coordinates to a team of Green Berets who went to check out the coordinates.

And it turns out it was a trap for helicopters.

The IR strobe was out in a small opening.

Oh my gosh.

And there were a group of Taliban underneath a waterfall of all things with a clear line to the landing zone.

So had I landed, they'd have blown us to pieces.

Yeah.

But you know, it's one of those things where, you know,

Had it been one of our guys and I landed, you know, all of a sudden, yay.

But in this case, not so much.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't consider myself like overly religious, but I believe in God and I believe in, you know, some kind of intervention.

And I think many times in my life I have been saved by some power beyond me.

That's for sure.

So we've retrieved all of the bodies but one.

From the Blackhawk.

From the previous Chinook and the original team.

So we're still missing somebody.

And actually, we might have been missing two.