Dale Hanson

Everybody's there, and anybody can ask you any questions they want about the mission, you know, and the captain and everything.

and the colonel and all the rest, you know.

And when they're totally satisfied that you're ready and you've got a degree of success looking ahead, then they'd okay it.

And then you'd have a time when the choppers are out there and you meet them out there and get inserted into the target area.

A lot of people talk about, you know, I did 40, 50 missions.

I don't know how you can do that if you go through the, you know, warning order and all that kind of a thing.

And the average intelligence mission is 7 to 10 days.

Damn.

You know, my missions...

overseas aren't that many.

It's less than 10.

But I had a lot of them in country too, which we didn't count.

The old timers wouldn't count that.

Only counted SOG.

Because SOG missions were deep into enemy denied and controlled territory, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam.

Those were our missions.

Anything else that we did, we kind of regarded as just training missions.

Interesting.

Yeah.

And I remember, I used to talk about it was just a training mission.