Mike Durant

And then the assault force came in right behind us and liberated the hostages.

Well, they freaking let them go.

So it's like, shit, there goes our mission.

This happens over and over, and the world is soft.

But it's like, son of a gun.

Good news is these people are all going to be fine.

Bad news is we don't get to do this freaking amazing mission we thought we were going to do.

Put it back in there.

Yeah.

And then, to make it worse, Desert Storm kicks off, and we're still home.

We were like, besides ourselves.

And what does any good soft unit do in that scenario?

Find a freaking mission, right?

Figure out how you can contribute and get your ass over there.

And that's obviously what Delta did.

What happened is Saddam Hussein started using Scuds.

And he was launching Scuds.

The real threat was he was launching them into Israel.

And the concern was, if the Israelis join the fight in retaliation, the coalition is going to fall apart.

Because the coalition, I mean, we're basing out of Saudi Arabia.