Mike Durant

And they picked me as lead, and then another bird.

Night vision goggles.

We had to fly to a location in the city.

We landed.

They were all positioned there with some of their gear, loaded up on the birds.

We brought them back.

I don't know why we didn't do it with ground vehicles, honestly.

But I mean, it was kind of cool to be part of that.

I remember my Chalk 2

speaks fondly of this story because he says you know i mean obviously he thinks a lot of me and i appreciate that but he he said uh you know mike made this great call on the way he said you know normally we go in as a flight of two but we didn't know mike didn't know if it was dusty so he said let me land alone and see what it looks like and then you come in after me because you know i mean if we went in there we both browned out yeah so anyway i landed it wasn't that bad it was a soccer field or something it was actually pretty good and then he came in immediately and

I didn't really get a reaction from the guys loading my bird, but he said those guys were like, yes, you know, thank you.

I don't know what risk they were, but anyway, we got them on board, brought them back to airfield, never saw them again.

And so I actually had a bonus mission somewhere in the middle of all that.

And then mission seven of the real, you know, direct action missions happens on October 3rd.

And, you know, we... Let me back up.

A few days prior, there was a Black Hawk from... It had 101st Airborne pilots on board, but I think the bird was actually an asset from 10th Mountain.

I'm not sure if that's all right.

I know for sure the pilots were 101st Airborne.

They're flying around at night.

They're...