Mike Durant

Well, we're covering the break, because the way we fired these things is we're in a diving fire mode.

And you get, we're supposed to stay 200 meters or more from the target, which sounds like a long ways, but when you're diving at a target, 200 meters is not very far.

And we break, which causes you to mush through a little bit, because, I mean, you've got a lot of inertia going here.

And they said, you know, we need a way to cover ourselves in the break, so let's put some M60s in the doors, because the miniguns are fixed forward.

And that way, when you're on the break, I can, you know, after you've...

and then you're in the break and the crew chief's like bang bang take that too you know it's like but we let them do it i don't know if they still do it because it's pretty sporty to be back there standing in the cabin while we're in a break you know trying to shoot at a target but anyway it was it was the wild west it was so freaking awesome and you know we had to shoot a ton

I don't remember what the rounds were, but it's like, I don't know.

I'll throw some numbers out there.

12,000 rounds of mini 72 rockets and 1,000 rounds of 30 per month.

Nice.

And I'm an instructor.

So I get to do mine and I get to go with you and you do yours because you got to show me that you can do what you're supposed to be able to do with this stuff.

So, I mean, literally thousands and thousands and thousands of rounds.

And I found that I could shoot pretty good too.

I mean, with an aircraft.

Now, regular shooting, I'm okay.

Shooting with a Blackhawk, I could hit the freaking target.

And then Desert Storm rolls around.

And now we're freaking ready.

We got this.