Dale Hanson

How did you wind up on the hatchet force?

That's when I came back from the hospital.

And I wanted to get back on the ground, per se, and not just in the bird dog.

I actually physically wanted to get on the ground and fight.

I don't know if I felt guilty for not being on the ground.

I don't know what the reasoning was, but it just seemed that I wanted to be there, you know, where the guys were, where the fighting is and stuff.

So it didn't take long to get on it because when I mentioned it to the SEAL, he says, you know, a company really needs you.

You know, only had two Americans.

You know, a lot of the other missions, you know, there were 15, 16 Americans, you know, squad leaders and platoons and companies and all that.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a good bunch of guys.

We had two for a while, and then it was down to one.

And then there were mic forces, and then some of these other ones, depending on who you were attached to.

Mic force could be to the B team, you know, when we were on the A team, or in the projects, you know.

So...

Or you're looking for trouble, one of the two.

And we could go out as a platoon or a company.

Yeah, and I don't want to offend people by doing that.