Alan C. Mack

Will you be our leadership mentor?

I was like, sure.

I had no idea what that entailed, right?

And then he went, yay, they ran off.

Turns out my responsibilities were to essentially be a mentor to them, what to expect when you get out, because they were going to graduate.

What's it like to deal with people you outrank, like sergeants, who have a lot more experience?

We're going to be in aviation.

How do you deal with warrant officers who have all the experience?

And they taught me how to skydive, which is funny.

I got my B license with these guys.

It was just amazing.

But those guys, both of them ended up flying Chinooks on the 160th, which was interesting.

Right.

And the guys that I served with were all pretty much the same, same thing, you know?

They wouldn't get.

Well, I take that back.

So my wingman, when we, the embassy story where I said we had the two man pads fired at us in 2001.

What I didn't tell you was the story of the kites, right?

So we take off out of the embassy yard, a missile comes at us, we drop down and now I'm as low as I can get dragging my wheels through the TV antennas and all that kind of stuff.

It wasn't satellite dishes back then.