Mike Durant

And you can see the minigun rounds in the dirt.

They're little black dots.

And the picture has the crosshairs of the FLIR dead center on the scud.

And basically what's happening is when I first started shooting, the rounds are low and left.

So I'm walking them in to the target, and the way it would normally work is, okay, once the miniguns are on the target, you might have to do a nose adjustment because rocket ballistics are different than minigun ballistics, and you learn that through training.

Nose up, nose down, depending on where you are.

But in this case, I'm too close for rockets, so I don't shoot them.

But you can see the miniguns are closing in on the target, and then some of them start to hit the target, and then I break off.

I think we're at 62 feet is what it shows on the image, which is not very high over the desert.

Yeah, it's a pretty cool photo.

I mean, if you look at this picture and you think about you encounter this in the dark in the middle of the night in the desert, that's a scud.

I mean, there's no question.

The road wheels are hot.

I mean, it's got thermal characteristics.

It's not a balloon, I can tell you that.

So we come around, line up again.

Now I'm ready, right?

We know exactly where it is.

We're going to shoot rockets at this sumbitch this time.

I come around, line up.