Dale Comstock
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Yeah, we used to, that's what we used to go in with.
Really?
Yeah, if you notice my picture, I'm the only guy wearing Kevlar, Kevlar helmet.
Everybody else is wearing Potex.
It wasn't until after Mogadishu that everybody said to hell with these plastic bullets, because we had helmets, because we had another guy get shot in the head, he'd get killed.
And we started going to the Mitch helmets and the smaller Kevlar helmets, right?
That started that whole process.
But yeah, he took a rotor strike right there in the head, knocked him clean out.
um kurt muse was laying next to him and kurt muse actually took his 45 with him from thinking he's going to have to make his customers last stand yeah and then uh tom woke up and grabbed his gun and go no no no and then everybody else yeah but um so i've heard comments about you know the venezuela um mission so you know and that was delta force yeah
Yeah.
So yeah, it was Delta that went in and did that one.
And so a lot of attributions were given to like technology, right?
So like, for example, how were we, our aircraft able to bypass the Chinese and the Russian radar systems, right?
That they had there.
Yeah.
We neutralized everything.
Yeah, actually somebody came out and made that comment that they did have a mock-up and it wouldn't surprise me.
Why not?
Because Delta's got so much money because they're allocated...
Even in peacetime, they're allocated as a wartime, like the war operational, right?