Mike Durant

So anyway, that's my life leading up to Somalia.

And this is peacetime army, you know?

Yeah.

All in a five-year period.

Pretty cool.

Just crazy.

You know, if you think about it, overwater combat, jungle combat, desert combat, and now urban combat in Somalia.

I want one more war story because, again, back to the you could be on a wall in a second.

Again, me and Donovan flying.

Again, this is a new aircraft, so we're developing task condition standards for various things that we do with it so that they will be something to evaluate people by in the future when the pilots come.

And we did various things like simulate.

You just got taken off a C-5.

You've got to put the aircraft back together, put all the weapons on, load them up, and shoot as fast as you can.

Click.

How long did that take?

Okay, let's put a little fudge factor on there.

Margin for error, let's just say it's 40 minutes.

I don't remember what it was.

Well, this time we're going to do a hide site, and we're going to go, which is essentially, you know, you fly in at night, camo everything up, sleep during the day.

When it gets dark, you take the camo off, and then you go fly and hit the target.