Dale Comstock

And, uh, you would think just from the video that they were expecting like a Mardi Gras parade or something coming that night.

Right.

And they're all drinking and dancing, carrying on.

And, um,

But we know we'd been compromised at this point.

And we were, right?

So if I remember correctly, a couple guys, one was a Marine, one was Army MP.

Those were at least two of many guys that got on the phone, called Mommy and Daddy, said, Mommy and Daddy, something's going to happen tonight.

I may not see you again.

And so all that was intercepted, right?

So, you know.

you know, loose lips, six ships, you know, the whole op sec thing.

And, uh, some other guy goes down to the canal, tells all his friends, Hey guys, you guys don't want to be here tonight because you know, there's going to be a light show and don't want you to get hurt.

These are all, these are all tip offs, man.

And, uh, you know, guys went thinking they're doing something that was out of goodwill, but really what they did is they jeopardized the whole operation and people's lives by doing that.

Because now what happened was seven hours, uh,

we've got these guys shoring up the corners and the stores, the corners and the tops of the buildings and things like that, shoring everything up.

And so now we have a problem.

It's like, okay, hit time was zero, zero, zero.

It was basically midnight, right?