Dale Hanson

And I did that, I suppose, only a couple months.

My other, my roommate that I was with in a training group, he stayed with it.

And I said, I got to get back on the ground.

I feel like I'm not doing anything, which was probably silly at that point, you know.

So rather than go back to recon right away, I went to a company.

And that's a story in itself.

We had a...

I went to a company.

There were only two Americans instead of 15.

And there was a captain and a first sergeant, and now there was me.

So the three of us each took a platoon, and we were it.

And then just before my first mission out with them, we got one more American, and we put him in charge of mortars.

So we had mortars with us now.

But it was kind of an interesting deal.

The captain was German and from Germany, was a German special forces, made his way to the United States and joined special forces in the United States.

I was, we'll test your World War II memory here.

I used to go get the mail, go to the post office, and if the other guy's got something, I'd drop it off.

Well, anyway, I was picking up a letter for the captain.

His name was Jaime Roche.

And anyway, as I'm picking it up, because you look at the back to see who it's for, and I said, that looks like my grandma's handwriting.