Dale Comstock
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So we had about a 15 aircraft package.
And the interesting part about the little birds was, now at that time,
the little birds of that era were basically the little flying eggs and the engine in it was the same engine as they use for irrigation pumps, right?
So like in the farm fields, the big sprinkler systems require some type of big ass motor, right?
To pump all that water out there.
Well, that's the same thing that's keeping us flying in this helicopter, right?
There's a little water pump.
That's comforting.
Right.
Yeah.
I didn't know that until I was talking to one of the pilots at the time.
He goes, yeah, it's a, you know, it's a water irrigation pump and that's what we're going to be flying around it.
So it doesn't have a lot of power either.
Right.
And, and of course we want to put a lot of stuff on there and bring it with us.
So it became a, the aircraft load, ACL was an issue, right?
How much can we put on a little bird, right?
So we normally trained with them all the time, but because we're going to go in on this prison, we brought a lot of extra stuff like breaching equipment, whether it was thermal arcs, explosives and cutting tools.
And, you know, there's a lot of stuff that's going to come with us, weapon systems.
And yeah, that's it right there, right?