Mike Durant
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Podcast Appearances
Can you imagine?
Every single one of them smoked like a freaking chimney.
I mean, just nonstop, sucking down the butts.
So I said, OK.
Language school was cool.
Going to Panama was cool, which is where I was stationed.
Oh, I forgot somewhere in there.
I wanted to go to airborne school.
So I filled out the paperwork.
I took the test.
And then I get my assignment in Panama, which was the strategic intelligence facility down there, the 470th Military Intelligence Group.
So when you're a young enlisted dude, you don't know the Army.
You don't know what's the right thing to do.
So I went and talked to my NCO, and I said, hey,
I want to go to airborne school, but I got this assignment.
What do you think?
He said, that's a cherry assignment.
Go take the assignment.
So I took the assignment.
I didn't go to airborne school.