Mike Durant

So we had people driving vehicles around Fort Bragg, you know, simulating these various scenarios.

And

I would say we probably flew various versions of those profiles, I don't know, 20 times before we ever deployed.

And I had reached a point where that's why I didn't run back and get it.

I didn't need it anymore.

Ray's got his, so I don't need to bring mine if it's going to cause me to run back and lose some time.

We're talking about the lead up.

So we finally are told, okay, you're deploying.

And this is August 28th, I think.

Because I said to you earlier in another conversation, I left one day before my first son's first birthday.

His birthday is August 18th.

So I left on August 17th and we're doing this bebop back and forth.

until we deployed, I think we deployed on the 24th, and we were mission ready on August 28th.

Now, that sounds like a long time, but mission ready was we had all the assets in place and we've conducted a day rehearsal in country and a night rehearsal in country.

And the leadership has said, all right, we're 100% ready to roll.

And then the thing is broken into phases.

Phase one, well, phase one was pre-deployment and deployment.

Phase two is capture Adib.

He's all we're going to go after.

I think there was two missions in phase two.