Mike Durant

And Donovan comes on there.

Again, we're on night vision goggles.

he says in his typical deadpan Donovan Briley way, Mike, we got a problem.

And I'm like, what's up?

And I start to feel something in my eyes and he puts his finger light up.

So a finger light is just this little green LED light that we have.

So you can read stuff in the cockpit under your goggles and still maintain light discipline.

And he puts it up there and there's bullet holes all through his cockpit.

So the minigun, the bolt that's supposed to keep it from turning left and right, fell out on the way up.

And when I pulled the trigger... Holy shit.

You would think the gun's gonna go this way because of the wind, but the barrel rotation caused it to go in.

And we have these armor panels on the side of the cockpit.

And we always put them forward because you just don't know.

You're going to have some kind of weapon malfunction.

Shit's going to go flying and take you out.

So he had his armor panel forward.

I think the gun hit the armor panel and stopped.

But it went in enough where bullet holes all through the cockpit, through his windshield.

I mean, there's probably 10 bullet holes through the windshield.

Missed his knee.