Mike Durant

We closed on the target, but I'm 99% sure we did not put our guys on the ground.

we just basically pulled off and held.

And I think, you know, it's been 30 freaking years, but either way, the Delta guys go in, they're clearing the building, they find them buried under a bunch of trash, pull them out, photo, bingo.

Execution checklist code word goes out, we got the primary target.

Man, that feels good.

When you're on an op like that,

And it all comes together.

And you know how important this guy is to the mission.

And then, for some reason, I ended up flying back with Cliff.

He ended up on Cliff's bird.

And we landed together.

And that's why I say he sure didn't look cocky.

You know, these freaking operators are taking him out of the back of the aircraft.

And we're like, yeah, buddy, your day just turned dramatically from being the richest dude in Somalia to the richest dude in prison.

And, you know, obviously he got interrogated.

They moved him to some holding facility somewhere.

And, you know, the experts said if we'd have stopped right there,

Adid eventually would have lost all his ability to influence because he didn't have any money, and it all would have happened.

It would have happened on its own.

Well, that wasn't our mission.