Alan C. Mack

He, he appealed to my professionalism.

okay, I'll buy off on that, but I'm planning the mission and I'm leading the whole thing.

You know, they'll pick him up, but I'll lead the mission.

And the Air Force guy's like, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so we came up with a very, what I consider one of my artistic pieces of work of deception, brute strength, speed, you know, and everybody worked together.

It was a wonderful operation.

You know, Marcus puts in his book, he's like,

You know, I walk out the door and the Taliban positions are blowing up.

And yeah, I plan that.

And the Air Force delivered.

You know, I talk about this all the time where,

I get asked what's the most rewarding missions that I do.

And does it feel good to take out a bad guy?

Yes.

But I like, when I say like, it's the most rewarding to do CASVAC, uh, casualty evacuation or personal recovery.

Like in this case, bring somebody back to their family that didn't think they were going to get them.

And what I write in the book there, I talk about, uh, this is the kind of stuff you don't necessarily see in the movies with all the cool guys stuff is, um,

So I'm going in night after night, what I consider the toughest flying I've ever done, evading the threat, evading the weather, all at the same time.

And we get back.

We did a memorial service.