Mike Durant

That's how much they freaking fired.

And so at this point,

The airdrop started.

So our job now is to go land where we're supposed to and set up this forward area arming and refueling point.

And we're close to the airfield.

So I'm thinking, all these freaking PDF guys that are vacating the barracks and hightailing it are going to overrun us if we stay here too long.

So we had to shut the bird down because we're burning a lot of gas sitting there with the blades running.

So we shut the bird down.

We still got the auxiliary power unit running because that powers the pumps.

And, you know, that lets us get off the ground fairly quickly, but it's going to take two or three minutes if we got to crank the engines.

So we're obviously, you know, we got a crew chief on the guns.

We got our weapons out because we're still in the cockpit.

We're not getting out of the cockpit.

And we put the rockets all out there and the little birds come in and they land and we refuel them.

They hadn't fired yet.

So they don't need any ammo.

So they drain us.

I mean, we basically got only enough fuel to get back.

And I'm like, okay, do we just leave these rockets laying here or do we just...

put them back on the bird and take them back.