Mike Durant

And so we get all our guys on the ground.

We come out, the whole flight comes out, we go north of the city, and now I got them up there and we're holding.

We're essentially done because we're gonna exfil by ground.

And we reached a point in the mission where we're gonna consolidate,

Count heads, get everybody on ground vehicles, and get out of there when all hell breaks loose.

And 6-1, Cliff Walcott and Donovan Briley, the guys I've been talking about for the last two hours, they're in the first bird, and they get shot down.

And they're killed instantly.

The aircraft...

Far as I know, came down, hit a wall, and then rotated and basically crushed the cockpit.

And miraculously, guys in the back, I mean, not hurt bad.

Dan Bush, I don't think was hurt at all.

I think he gets shot later.

Not 100% sure, but I mean, it's on video.

One of the guys comes out and sets up security to the tail of the aircraft.

The crew chief survived.

One of them's not really hurt hardly at all.

I don't know how, because if you look at that crash, I mean, there's no survival space.

I don't know how in the world they didn't all get killed.

But anyway, they didn't.

So now the commander's got target in contact, convoy in contact, crash site in contact.