Dale Hanson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Some kind of an apprehension and appreciation of what you're about to go through, and you know this is not going to be easy.
You're well-trained.
Your assets are there.
They're fine.
They'll come and get you no matter what.
We had good support all the way through.
The people in operations and some of these other places, they're good people.
The Colonel Abt...
Just a sweet, good man.
You could be a commander without being a gruff.
You don't have to be unlikable.
Just let your people know that what you say is it.
And when they understand it, why yell and shout at them and treat them poorly?
He was not that way.
I remember we made the first ladder in Vietnam to Exville.
I forget what you called the ladder.
It was the rungs that went across and the three ropes.
And Donnie and I made the first ones.
And he said that when they were in Delta, which is Delta Project, not Delta Force, he said they used them over there.
And Dhoni and I, on some Sunday afternoon, we made Dhoni ladders.