Mike Durant

And Colonel Brown at the time, Doug Brown, is talking directly to me.

And he's telling me that they have a new mission for us.

But we're in this orbit.

And I'm getting like half of his transmission.

And I wasn't the lead, but I had the working SATCOM.

So I called the other bird and I said, hey, we're getting a mission change.

Let me take the lead because I'm getting all the information.

Roger, so I'm writing this shit down, this coordinate.

And then he's saying something at the end, and I don't know what he's saying.

And I said, can you spell that phonetically?

And he's Sierra, Charlie, uniform, Delta.

And when he got to uniform, I'm like, holy shit.

We're going to go shoot some scuds.

And Cliff Walcott, who's back in the jock, he's on the other team that's not flying that night.

He must have been so pissed because it was his idea to arm this thing, right?

And the first time it's going to get used in combat, he's not there.

And I don't blame him.

I would have been pissed, too.

But I'm like, sorry.

So I put the coordinates in, and we're flying out through the desert.