Mike Durant

What were the scenarios?

We believe this was to capture a deed.

But we believe this was the birth of these now used hundreds of times scenarios where we're going to apprehend someone in a certain scenario.

So I'll give you an example.

This is my kneeboard from Somali.

I mean, the reason I didn't have it the day I got shot down is the mission developed so fast I never ran back to get it because I didn't have time.

But so that would have been what I carried on every other mission.

And it's got all the crews, it's got the frequencies, it's got the concepts.

And the amazing thing to me is people didn't have computers back then.

So we had one guy, we didn't have one guy, but one guy that I remember that was tech savvy enough where he produced this stuff in 1993 when the average person doesn't even own a computer and we're generating all this stuff

And again, you can handwrite it, but it sure looks a lot better done that way.

And we developed these various scenarios.

And those kneeboard packages show each of those possible scenarios and what we're going to do in case we face A versus B, for example.

And it worked like a charm.

I mean, it was brilliant.

Again, I don't know who came up with it.

I don't know if the Delta guys did or, you know, it was a collaboration between the two of us.

But it allowed you to react quickly, which is what you got to do when you're after a person, right?

You can't spend two days planning a mission if you're chasing a person.

So we're rehearsing all this.