Gary Sinise

Well, that was hot, too.

That was good.

Better than the fire ants.

I am Lieutenant Dan.

We had a great tour, though.

It was called Project Salute, that 2003 tour.

And then... Was it scary, though?

Yeah.

No, we landed in Kuwait first, and then we went up to Baghdad.

you know there were so many of us 180 on that first tour that we split off into three different groups and i remember one group like was went into kuwait another group went up into iraq another group flew out to a carrier in the gulf out there we were just splitting off and trying to cover as much territory as possible and i remember um

I went up, yeah, I went up to, you know, we were doing a lot in Kuwait.

I went up to Baghdad, did some stuff, came back, and then Tommy Franks, he was running the war.

And he said he wanted to go, he was going up to Baghdad the next day, and he wanted a small group to go with him.

And so I went back up into Baghdad with Tommy Franks, and Robert De Niro was on the airplane.

You know, we're on a C-130, and we're going up.

That was an incredible trip, and I wanted to go back once I got home.

So we were well protected, and we weren't going to anywhere.

We were such a big tour that we weren't like fob hopping or anything like that.

The second time I went back, I went back that same year in November, just whatever it was, four months later.

That one was a little bit different.