Mike Durant

And we don't have the assets to handle one of these.

And now we got three.

So best idea they can come up with is consolidate on the crash site because they can't get Cliff and Donovan out.

They obviously need to provide security for the guys that are still alive.

So the idea is get everybody to close on the crash site.

We'll set up security, get the bodies out, load up on the vehicles, and get the hell out of here.

Meanwhile, I'm still holding.

And in my mind, Donovan and Cliff are not dead.

I mean, I'm like, okay, they got hit by an RPG.

They got it on the ground.

We'll all, you know...

yak about it later and tell war stories later and all that other shit.

And then Carl Meyer, who was a flight lead of the Little Bird Assault Force, the MH6s that put the guys on the ground right around the building.

You can see it in the video.

They make it like an L-shaped landing right around the target building.

gets on the radio and says, hey, I can land in the street.

My aircraft's small enough.

Why don't you let me land near the crash site, and we'll get a couple of the operators that are most gravely wounded on board.

Now, he doesn't have crew chiefs.

He's just got two pilots.