Mike Durant

That qualified as combat.

But it really didn't feel like combat.

This was combat.

We're going to go punch somebody hard.

And I'm like, I don't give a shit how much this thing weighs.

We're taking it down there.

so we're skipping off the freaking runway we had to take off like an airplane because the aircraft was so heavy it wouldn't fly and i mean i think we broke the wire strikes off which are these little devices that hang down from the landing gear to in case you hit a wire it'll cut the wire i think we broke them off but i mean i don't know what we weighed but we were freaking heavy and we skipped down the road we skipped down and finally took off start flying get out of the ocean

We get down there, and there's a, I think it's a ZPU-4.

It was an anti-aircraft gun on the end of the airfield.

And I've read different accounts here, but I think it was the Apaches that were supposed to neutralize that gun.

So we get there at 8 o'clock, 1 o'clock in the morning.

Now, 8 o'clock, we got moved up on a couple of,

elements of this mission because the, you know, once certain things started happening, this Panamanians knew this shit's going down.

And Kurt Muse was probably the most time sensitive thing.

So I think they launched a little early and ultimately rescued him.

And that's a whole nother story.

I think you had one of the Delta guys on here talked about this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Vickers.

So you've covered that already.

But anyway, that was our little birds that were flying that mission.