Mike Durant

And I still remember he let me push the button.

And we're out west somewhere.

We got a customer lazing the target.

And, you know, kind of amped up.

It was a hellfire, pretty famous, first ones to get to do it.

And I pushed the button and nothing happened.

And it's because it takes a second for the Hellfire to leave the rail.

But I didn't know it.

I'm thinking it's going to be like a rocket.

As soon as you hit the button, it's gone.

And I must have hit that button like eight times in one second trying to get it to shoot.

And finally it left the rail and goes up because a Hellfire comes up

There's two modes, lock on before launch, lock on after launch, lock on before launch.

It's identifying the coded laser first, which to me is lowest risk, because if you throw it up there and somebody put the wrong code in, it's going to just go nowhere.

So we did a lock-on before launch, but it's still going to climb, and then it's going to do its final trajectory down into the target, and boom, big explosion.

Like, yes, you know, that was freaking awesome.

And then, you know, we got to shoot them in training, and I get to teach people on them.

So this thing is a badass now.

I mean, we got every weapon you could ever want.

And then the crew chief said, you know what?