Mike Durant

17?

Yeah, low-level drop.

I think they dropped somewhere around 800 feet.

I mean, they're just rangers falling out of the sky like rain.

And we're right underneath it.

I mean, it was unbelievable.

Again, I said our mission wasn't glamorous.

We were a FARP bird, which is Forward Area Refueling and Rearming Point.

So we had developed this capability where the Blackhawks or Chinooks could fly in, land, put out pumps,

connect the hose to our fuel tanks and provide fuel, ammunition, and rockets to the little birds so we're like a mobile gas station.

And then they continued to do their mission.

So that was, you know, they don't have a long range like we do.

We got a lot greater range than they do because of the fuel that we can carry.

think it's the first combat farp we ever did as a unit i think because i know we didn't do one in grenada we didn't do it in prime chance we're out in the ocean so might have been not necessarily anything that anyone ever takes note of but i think it was the first combat farp we ever did and you know donovan and i we take off we're were we leading i don't know we were ahead of the apaches but i can't remember if the little birds were ahead of us i think they probably were anyway

Our bird is so laden with rockets.

I mean, we're floor to ceiling in the back, full of rockets, full of minigun.

We were way over gross.

I mean, meaning our aircraft's too heavy.

But it's combat, right?

And yeah, I'd been a prime chance.