Dale Comstock

So now what do we got to do?

We got to figure out where can we cut weight, right?

And one of the things we did, we started stripping some of the avionics out of the little berths.

Like, you know, you don't need this, you don't need this thing to fly from here to there.

It's not very far.

In fact, it was a minute and 43 seconds flight time from Howard Air Force Base to the prison.

And so- Where's Howard Air Force Base?

In Panama.

Yeah, in Panama.

Oh, okay.

So, yeah, that's where we staged out of.

So you guys launched out of Panama.

Right.

Got it.

Yeah, so we flew there, you know, covertly at night, landed, snuck into the hangars, just blended in like all the other airmen and stuff, but we were basically prepping is what we were doing for this hit.

And so we ended up stripping a lot of the avionics out of the helicopters, and then it still wasn't enough, right?

And we're like, man, we're just a little over, and then we got one, two pilots,

One of you don't get to go.

And we literally had two helicopters and only had one pilot just for the weight purpose.

So the irony of it is the two helicopters that had two pilots, each had one pilot get shot.