Mike Durant

I mean, that's how close in they were providing fire support for the guys fighting all night long.

And anybody you talk to that was on the ground at the target is going to say, those little birds were just there all night, you know, providing fire support.

There was no other fire support.

I mean, again, no AC-130s, no artillery, no mortar positions, nothing.

I mean, it's whatever they had on their backs and the little birds.

That's it.

And anyway, it's very, very frustrating that it's viewed as, I hate to even use the F word, a failure.

I don't think it was a failure.

I feel like a lot of people feel like it was, but it wasn't.

We got it done, but we took some heavy freaking shit because we weren't resourced.

If we had been resourced, I mean, I gave you Matt as the example.

There's other examples of other people that probably would not have lost their lives if we had the tanks and we had the carrier and we had the AC-130 and the counter battery fire and all that thing that we talked about.

So it's very, very, very, very disturbing.

that, you know, we go into harm's way and our hands are tied, we're set up for failure, whatever you want.

Now, in the end, General Garrison takes responsibility.

He handwrites a letter to Clinton saying, it's on me.

mean i appreciate that he did that uh i don't know what else he could do i mean what you know can you say hey you don't give me the i want we're not launching maybe i don't know but again i think we all felt comfortable enough nobody thought what happened on october 3rd would ever happen nobody thought that based on our track record up to that point and uh

It is what it is.

I'm truly sorry for the families that the hole will never be filled.

And you can't fill it.