Dale Hanson

And I was the team leader, and I took point.

No, not a joint operation, just for that major.

And once we got the information, we'd give it to him, and he'd take over from there.

But the closest we would get would be a helicopter, one of theirs.

And he would give us only one.

And some of the parameters were about what you could shoot and not shoot at, things like that.

So anyway, we're going through the bushes and all that kind of a thing.

And I've never seen so much bombs and booby traps and stuff all over the place.

I couldn't believe it.

And it was really moving slow.

I was on my knees and stuff like that.

And I got to a place, I could just sense the enemy was there.

I just knew it.

And the ancillary sounds or hum or something, there's something big close by.

So I'm on my belly.

I'm crawling through my belly through the really thick tangle that's there.

And I'm really going slow because I know somebody's in front of me.

And I get to a certain spot in this tangle, and I smell something.

And I freeze.

I don't move or anything like that.