Mike Durant

we're down literally at 1 a.m.

And I'm in the cockpit with Donovan.

I'm saying, eh, I don't think it's going to happen.

We always sort of saber rattle and then, you know, everything winds down.

And all of a sudden,

Kaboom, 2,000-pounder goes off right in front of us.

And it was the F-117.

They were brand new.

No one even knew they existed.

Two of those birds dropped two 2,000-pounders right there, right near the barracks.

Again, there's some controversy here.

They claim their mission was to just scare the shit out of the PDF, the Panamanian Defense Force, not kill them because...

The theory is we get Manuel Noriega out, they'll all convert, and they'll support the new military and the new leadership, and we don't want to kill them all.

We need them, right?

I think that's generally the idea.

There's other theories that, well, the F-117 couldn't hit the freaking backside of a freaking barn, you know, but I don't know what the right answer is.

All I know is those freaking bombs went off at 1 a.m.

on the nose.

And that's when this AAA gun starts shooting because obviously they know they're being attacked.

So it's firing into the night sky.