Mike Durant

Let's do it.

Because, again, it speaks to something you asked about earlier, and that is how close we all were.

I tell people I shot myself down five times.

You just heard the story of the most dramatic, where the minigun rounds are going through the cockpit.

The others were not quite that exciting.

But another one that's probably worth sharing.

So we're out at the range at night, and we're shooting.

And again, I was an instructor, so...

I don't remember if I'm qualifying a guy or doing currency or whatever, but we're going to go out two nights in a row.

So we shoot, go back, park the bird, button it up, come back the next day.

We're pre-flighting, same aircraft.

And there's a hole in the engine inlet.

So on a Blackhawk, up kind of over where the cabin doors are, there's these two inlets because it's got two engines that are basically on the upper outside portion of the airframe.

And it's got a big opening in the front where the air gets sucked in.

And there's a hole, pretty good-sized hole.

So the crew chiefs pull the cowling off.

And inside, laying there in the front end of the engine,

is a 30-millimeter round, like the projectile, not the shell casing.

And we're like, what the hell?

How did that happen?