Mike Durant

And then I think they convinced Dan Bush to get on that aircraft as well, I think.

Dan ultimately doesn't make it.

It may not have been Dan.

But anyway, they end up with, I think, two guys, neither of which make it, I don't think.

And they get them to medical treatment.

It would have been hours otherwise, a day actually otherwise, had they not done that.

In the meantime, the commander says, send the search and rescue bird in.

Remember the bad idea we just talked about?

But it's all he's got.

I mean, there's nothing else he can do.

So they go in.

They're roping their security and medical team near the crash site.

And they get nailed by an RPG.

There's a picture of the blade on the aircraft, how the thing didn't fail.

I don't know.

I mean, it looks like a giant took a bite out of the front end of this rotor blade.

And the rotor blades, really the structure is all in the front.

They call it a titanium spar.

It's shaped like a backwards D. I guess if you look at it the right way, it's shaped like a frontwards D, but either way.

And the rest is just aluminum.