Mike Durant

And on that day, as we looked at this thing, again, I'm a flight lead here.

So I'm in this ops center with the leadership and we're looking at this thing and we all knew the risks.

I mean, there were four risks on this one, daytime.

Don't have our technology advantage.

We've done it six times.

This is number seven.

And they're changing their tactics with each evolution.

They now understand what we're doing pretty much as well as we do in terms of general concept.

It's in the worst part of the city.

We're going into Bacara Market.

This is where all the bad guys are.

I mean, we're into the lion's den.

And then you can't land the Blackhawks.

so that complicates extraction fast roping i mean we're exposed a little bit more but we can do it pretty quick getting them in but the only option to get them out is rooftop and that's a bad idea i mean if they've been on a target 40 minutes and you come in with a blackhawk and you're sitting on the roof long enough to load you know for me i had 16 rangers

I'm exposed for way too long.

That's a bad idea.

So we were going to extract by ground.

And that's why the convoy's out there.

The mechanism to get everybody off the target is the convoy.

All good decisions.