Mike Durant
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Podcast Appearances
Same guys.
Event after event after event.
And
What I remember most about that mission is we got briefed afterward that we're probably going to see a 50% casualty rate.
And not a single freaking person said, I'm out.
You know, everybody just sort of accepted the fact that, you know, that's why I came to this unit to do this kind of shit.
And we're, it's not going to be us.
And that's, you know, you have to look at it that way.
You have to look at it like,
yeah, there's gonna be some losses taken, but it won't be me.
You know, I just, we call it big sky, little bullet theory, meaning, you know, they can shoot at you all day long, but the odds of them hitting you is low enough where I'm gonna just take this risk.
So anyway, we're ready to go.
We did the final demo.
I don't remember who was there.
It was at least a three-star, if not a four-star was there to basically give us the thumbs up.
Yep, you guys look ready.
Because, I mean, we had mock-ups of where the barracks were.
That was my target, where the barracks were for these reinforcements.
And I went in there and laid down a whole bunch of rockets and blew the shit out of it.
I don't remember what Cliff was hitting.