Mike Durant

So I'm just shooting through the wall to get these people to stay away.

At some point, and I had forgotten about this, but now that I was reminded, what I think was a hand grenade got thrown in here, and I just heard it hit the ground, and I'm freaking out.

Like, holy shit, there's a freak.

And I remember swinging my weapon around because I couldn't see it, and I'm hoping to just hit it, you know, and bang, it goes off.

Nothing hit me.

But again, just adds to the, man, you know, this is just off the chart, right?

So Randy comes back asking, where's the crew chief's weapons?

And I'm like, oh shit.

You know, I went from feeling pretty good about this to, man, we are screwed.

And I told them where they were.

You know, again, this is the importance of SOPs and standard operating procedures, you know, doing things the way they're supposed to be done.

Crew chiefs had their weapons exactly where they were supposed to be.

They're not buried under some shit.

Or there's this place we call the hellhole in the back that's behind a panel that, you know, sometimes you throw stuff in.

No, they were right where they were supposed to be.

And I told them where they were.

He went in and he's out in like...

10 seconds.

Now he's got two M16s, freshly loaded, full magazines.

And he gives me what I've always thought and still think was Gary's weapon.