Mike Durant
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And he came in with his helicopter.
We hooked up the cable, and he pulled the part.
Because it was in the National Forest, and they don't like to leave stuff like that out there.
So it was those kind of jobs that we were doing.
He did all sorts of miscellaneous stuff with his aircraft.
And the most bizarre one, not to get too far off track, was he would harvest cranberries out of a cranberry bog with his helicopter.
So they put a net down.
The cranberries float when they're ready.
The net comes up.
They tie the corners together.
He flies in with his helicopter, hooks it on, slings them over, throws them on the truck, comes back out, gets another load.
Right on.
All kinds of crazy stuff you can do with helicopters.
So anyway, from that point forward, I'm like, all right, this is my plan.
I'm going to try to figure out how to do this.
So I go and I talk to the recruiter.
And, of course, apparently he had a quota.
And part of his quota was not to get somebody to sign up to want to go to flight school.
So he told me.
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