Mike Durant

And there's media in the street.

So they had told them where I was at that point and that I was being released.

They stick me in the back of this van, well, the doors won't close because the litter's too long.

So two guys, Ferimbi's one of them, is sitting on either side holding the door manually, okay, with my litter sticking partway out.

Well, we get to a traffic intersection and there's traffic backed up and there's

truck next to us I can see through the windows it's got like 25 Somalis on the back and they're all looking down and they see me and I think the concern is oh shit you know these these are potentially a threat we got to get out of here jam on the gas I go sliding halfway out the back before these two guys get a good grip on it was like Keystone cops it really was and they finally get to the UN compound and

Farimbi goes through security at the UN compound.

One of the guys, I don't know if he's on our list of 50, but he was pretty high up, has got credentials to get in.

I'm stunned.

And then all hell breaks loose because they realize it's me.

And the next person I see from Task Force Ranger is actually the JAG, the attorney who happened to be over at the UN compound for some reason and finds out that I just came through the gate, comes on over there.

I recognize him and I'm like, okay, this is absolutely real for now.

And in the mayhem, Frimby disappears.

I don't know where he went.

I don't know how long he stayed inside the wire, but he's gone.

And anyway, they take me over.

They put me under.

I start having surgeries after surgery after surgery.

And then our company commander comes over with the guys, and I'm half unconscious, and I'm looking around, and I'm like, where the hell is Cliff and Donovan?

And Herb Rodriguez is our company commander.