Mike Durant

So that's where I got a lot of my hours, just flying and flying and flying.

One other thing that was cool is the Koreans were big on building this Korean-U.S.

relationship, so they sponsored a program to bring family members over.

So my parents got to come over and spend some time traveling around, visiting the DMZ.

But my commander let me take my father up in the Black Hawk along the DMZ.

Oh, man, that's cool.

It might have been the high point of his life.

I don't know.

I mean, he was beaming when that was over.

And, of course, I did some slightly aggressive stuff for the aircraft.

But, you know, in the end, we all got on the ground.

Oh, hell yeah.

Wouldn't you?

If I could have made him throw up, I would have.

which is actually not that hard.

But anyway, so awesome experience, lots of missions, really cool missions, you know, and come out of there experienced and feeling good about who I was as a pilot and then heard about this special unit.

How did you hear about it?

So it literally was in a bar.

I mean, there's a guy there whispering about, yeah, well, they just formed this unit at Fort Campbell, counter-terrorist.

They were going to go in and rescue the hostages in Iran because not everybody knows this, but there was a second attempt that was going to happen.