Mike Durant

So it's got dirt on it, but it's not deformed.

There's no way that that round hit the ground or hit a tank or whatever, because we had tank hulks out there.

And flew up in the air, and then we flew into it.

There's just no way.

It would have been smashed, right?

But it's got dirt on it, so that's kind of weird.

But...

In the end, the conclusion was that we somehow sucked up enough dirt while flying that it got the round dirty.

I don't know.

So anyway, the commander's pissed, right?

He thinks, Mike, you're shooting too close to the freaking target.

If you're flying through your own projectiles, that's less than 200 meters, okay?

And I'm like, I swear we didn't, you know?

And Cliff, God bless him,

comes up with this theory i'm like run with it brother you know you got it go to bat for me and he briefs the leadership on his theory that it was a squib round which means it doesn't have enough propellant in the jacket to fire it correctly and what happened was it fired but it was moving so slowly that it was in the air in front of us and we flew in

And caught up to it.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Do they buy that shit?

And I'm like, I mean, when somebody's willing to go to bat for you with that story.

Yeah, that's love.