Dale Hanson
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And there were, I think there were four or five of us special forces.
And I was doing intelligence because I didn't want to go on the ground right away until we factored this out.
So I was on the ground and debriefing teams so they could go out.
And having been on the ground, I certainly knew what they needed to know and so forth.
So that was good as far as intelligence.
And we shared the same office.
So that morning, one of the pilots, the backseat observer was killed.
He was taking pictures out of the window, and boy, that looks lucrative.
He tells the pilot to go back, and I want to take another picture.
The pilot says, no, no, you don't go back twice.
That's lethal.
But he says, no, I insist.
This is really good.
And he goes back a second time, and he gets shot in the head and dies.
So then the major who was in charge of intelligence was a little bit concerned.
He says, well, I wonder what we'll do now to replace him.
So I told him, I says, I'll do it.
So I started doing the bird dog stuff.
Mike Buckland and some of the other ones would teach me what to do.
And we had to...