Mike Durant

I mean, you've got to sort through a lot of comms.

And sometimes the crew in the back sometimes will turn it off because they don't want to hear it.

Now, the guys who really wanted to stay situationally aware

They're the kind of crew chiefs you want because they recognize, you know, my role could become important at any point, and I've got to know what's going on, right?

So they don't want it to be quiet.

They want to be kept up to speed on all these.

So you might hear the execution checklist.

You might hear the air-to-air net where we're talking to each other.

You might hear the ground force net.

You might hear the fire net.

And if you're listening to all of them, you've got a pretty good picture of what's happening.

we're coming into the target it's the first mission actually and it's a night mission everybody's blacked out this place is freaking dusty and there's dust clouds everywhere and i can't see the building that we're going to i just can't see it and our guys wanted to this is the level of precision they wanted there's a there's a iron gate around the compound small compound

And they want to be roped on the path inside the gate so they don't have to breach the gate because they don't know what the gate's made of and they don't know whether it's locked.

And that's precision under night vision goggles.

And, you know, again, it's a city.

You got GPS, but it's not that accurate.

You've got to be able to see the target.

So I called out on the air net.

I said, somebody put a laser on the target building.

And one of the crew chiefs in the first Blackhawk in, which was 6-1, I think, might've been 6-2.