Dale Hanson

But the first day, North and South flew out, and the next day, my group was at Khantoum.

For some reason, it might be a characteristic of youth, but you're kind of indefatigable.

You think that if there's one that's going to live, that's going to be me.

And I don't know how to say it.

You want to be in the most worthwhile program of all.

accepting the idea that there's going to be tremendous risk involved in it.

And you're willing to take the risk when you're young.

You just think, nothing's going to get me.

As it was, it popped more than once in my tours.

Pretty much.

We know mainly it was going to be intelligence gathering, a lot of that.

Now we had the mic forces too, the strike forces as a part of us, perhaps to exploit things that we found and so forth.

But that was a part of it too.

So you get there, and the person who I met first was Bob Howard, and we hit it off really well.

And he was first starting to recon because they wouldn't let him go in the field anymore because for the third time they were going to put him in.

He's supposed to get his Medal of Honor.

It's funny because in college I knew Greek because the New Testament was written in Greek.

I had to learn Greek, you know.

And I'm walking by the team house, and there's an outline of a horseshoe up there, which in Greek is omega.

And Bob Howard sent me.