Mike Durant

And then he killed some American service personnel.

And all those things together were like, OK, we've had enough of this.

We're going to go do it.

And we were ready.

I mean, we'd been practicing for two years.

And that's why I say I think if I had to pick what I would be most proud of, that's probably it, even though my role was pretty minor.

So back home, teaching Green Platoon, furthering the DAP program, defense.

We had to change the name.

We wanted to call it the Direct Action Penetrator, but there's something about fielding new attack aircraft that you got to call it something else.

So we had to change the name to Defensive Armed Penetrator, which is what it's called now.

But everybody knows it as a DAP.

And now...

want to get more sophisticated we're going to put a 30 millimeter on here same one that's on the apache exact same gun but we're going to put it in a fixed forward mode so it's not turreted it's hanging on the wing i don't know by the way we can put two so we can put one on each side with 30 millimeter magazines inside the cabin uh awesome weapon i mean that thing 625 rounds a minute i think a 30 millimeter

And what's weird is the sound.

I mean, it's still a distinct, very... I mean, the minigun is... But the .30 is more like... Which doesn't sound like 625 rounds a minute, but that's what it sounded like.

You could hear it.

And it has either inert rounds or high-explosive dual-penetrator rounds.

And the HEDP would, you know, explode, obviously, when it hit the ground.

And then we put hellfires on there.

And Cliff Walcott and I were the first ones to shoot a hellfire off a Blackhawk.