Alan C. Mack

And to my front are hundreds, if not thousands of kites.

The Taliban had banned kite flying and these kids were flying kites.

And the problem is they don't use kite string.

They use fishing line to make sure that, because they fight the kites.

You know, it's the kite runner.

So now I'm dodging the damn kites.

And my wife told me not to tell the story, but I'm going to tell it.

So there's this one red kite off to the front and it turns this way.

I go away, it goes over.

And if this thing wraps around the rotor system, it could actually cut the rotor system off with this filament.

So I couldn't quite get away from him, but it wrapped around the landing gear, and I'm dragging this kid like a mile.

He's not letting go of that kite.

Well, he lasted about 100 meters, I guess.

He was fine.

Okay.

But so we get back to Bagram, and now we've still got to go back and get the general.

And my co-pilot, not my co-pilot, the pilot in command of the second aircraft is named Willie.

He's from Puerto Rico.

Now, Willie is known for being very animated.

And the more animated he gets, you know, whether it's fun or anger or whatever, it doesn't matter, any emotion, his accent thickens up a little bit.