Dale Hanson

Donnie says, don't forget, 58,000 people have been killed in those training missions.

You had to remember that because it's in Vietnam, it's still dangerous.

What would some of the missions be in CONUS?

Over the fence?

Yeah.

Intelligence was probably number one.

Sometimes it's strike action.

My team in particular was specialized to be a prisoner of war snatch.

That's what we did.

And usually...

you'd want to have a couple extra people because you have the snatch, you know, the attack element.

And then you have somebody behind you with a radio in case something goes south.

And then you got the two wings, you know, security.

So the wing can say they're coming or something like that.

So you're talking about two on each wing and an attack element and then somebody behind.

So ideally, you'd have about 10 people.

But it's hard to hide 10 people, too.

But we would have the attack element, and I'm not sure if I'm getting carried away here, but a lot of times we would have a couple claymores, and we have a claymore here, a claymore here.

And in between, we have a dead, not a dead space, but an empty space.

And that's where we would time it so the prisoner was right there.