Dale Comstock

He go, you know what?

It's not a matter if, it's when.

He said, we're going to crash.

As many times we've been in helicopters, you know, as many helicopter crashes we've had, our day is coming, man.

And it wasn't long after that Modelo prison happened.

And then Panama happened after that.

Me and him were in the same helicopter crash in May of 1990 in Panama on Mother's Day in the jungle, Darien jungle.

but anyways uh all total it took us six minutes to get him out and get off the roof and get back to the air force base now remember when we got so what happened after uh muse's helicopter crashed so so they so my helicopter should have actually been the last helicopter back at howard air force base it was the only helicopter to get back and i remember when we came off the roof

So the other thing we had, we had the 193rd, I believe it was, 193rd or 197th, I can't remember now, infantry.

At that time, it's Christmas time, so they all went home to the U.S.

So the only people who were left were, you know, you had cooks and clerks and mechanics.

Those were the stay behind.

And so they actually became the blocking forces, and they actually manned their APCs, M113s.

with 50 caliber machine guns.

And their job was, when H hour went down, was to come in and block off all the street intersections, cordon it off.

And so as they tried to get in, they couldn't get in because all these civilians were out there in cars and just blocking these guys from getting in.

And we needed them to get in there and do it.

So they were like literally driving over cars and people were sitting in them.

You know, that's why I say it was just a big mess.

People, there's no spectators in a firefight.