Alan C. Mack

So we're all talking about, you know, he's on this building on a terrorist field at the bottom of the mountain.

We're going to send the Blackhawks from the Air Force in there to get them.

And I threw a fit and I was like, no way are they coming in to do that?

Because I happen to know, you know, I can do math, you know, not very good, but I can do math.

And I know that the aircraft are too heavy.

They don't have the performance to get in there and get him out.

The Blackhawks.

The Blackhawks.

And they said, well, they stripped them down.

They took out the armor, the guns, the equipment, and they now technically, mathematically could fly in there, you know, totally undefended.

And they go, Al, we're still missing somebody.

We were missing one still.

And we have to bring more people into the top 12,000 foot mountain.

And you know, the Blackhawk can't do that.

So if you don't let them pick it up, if you do the pickup of Latrell, you're not bringing another, you know, 30 guys to the top of the mountain because the weather is bad, right?

The weather is kind of coming in waves, thunderstorms.

And I said, okay.

So these are your choice.

Yeah.

And this guy was smart.