Mike Durant

We don't understand.

So they finally settled on, initially they thought I was lieutenant colonel, and then they settled on that I was a major.

And I'll show you something in a bit here that actually addressed to me from them.

It says two major Durant.

but you know if you can waste time with that kind of crap you know that's a victory so they never figured it out and then without warning this pretty big entourage shows up and not always says it's possible adid was there i don't know if he if that was him he just stayed in the background

It was actually a CNN camera guy that the Somali National Alliance went out and said, hey, you with the camera, come with us.

And he did.

And he filmed the interrogation.

You know, initially I'm doing everything they taught me to do and time's a wasting and I'm having to hold my weight up because I'm sitting, they had me propped against the wall and my freaking back is crushed and I'm getting, this is very painful and I'm getting to the point where I can't hold myself up anymore.

And they threw a blanket on my right leg to cover the femur fracture up.

And they're asking me questions about this and that.

And I basically told them, I'm a Blackhawk pilot.

Well, they captured me next to a freaking Blackhawk.

I have a Blackhawk on my name tag.

It's probably OK to say that.

And then they got into the political questions, which

You have to give them credit knowing that to them, the most important thing was not, you know, how many people are in Task Force Ranger?

You know, how many aircraft do you have?

They weren't asking that.

They were asking the political questions.