Mike Durant
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They knew that if they could get me to say something politically significant, that it could affect policy.
That was their theory.
CW3, Mike Durant.
U.S.
Army.
U.S.
Army.
I'm a Black Hawk pilot.
Black Hawk pilot.
How do you think this operation is going?
And that's the pressure you're under, right?
It's like, how do I get past this point and not do that?
So the two questions they asked me were,
how you think this mission in Somalia?
And I probably didn't answer it for a while, or I didn't say anything, and then they kept asking, and I finally said, I'm a soldier, I do what I'm told.
Okay?
And then they said, you kill the people innocent.
Obviously what they want me to say.
And I said, innocent people being killed is not good.
Who's going to argue with that, right?