Mike Durant
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Podcast Appearances
They didn't do anything.
Park it.
Wait a night because that's not our night to fly.
That's going to be the other team's night.
Next night we go out.
We had a fire mission.
Same freaking thing.
No way.
Same thing.
It won't shoot.
This time, I was so pissed, I actually said, I'm going to crash this fucking aircraft in the desert.
I mean, that's how upset I was.
We're going kamikaze.
One of the crew chiefs who didn't know me that well because I was flying with the other company, or platoon at least.
I think it was the other company.
Didn't really know me and thought, is this guy going to kill me?
And went back.
And this is why I love the crew chiefs.
If they respect you, which I like to think most of the crew chiefs respected me, they're going to try to help you out, figure out what the hell is going on here.
And without anybody telling them, one crew chief thought of, OK, here's the only variable in this equation, time.