Mike Durant

Anyway, they're the first two birds in.

So they don't, they're not dealing with the dust like we are.

That crew chief's got his radio nets up.

He hears me and no delay, instantaneously, infrared laser right on the target building.

And he makes this circle on it.

And that's, you know, I tell that story because everybody's got a role.

And in that one small act,

could have been the difference.

If this had gone hot, it could have been the difference between my guys being in the right place and able to support, or being a liability, put in the wrong place, or even worse, put in somebody else's field of fire, because nobody knows where they are.

And all that shit matters, right?

I mean, it all matters.

And as soon as I saw that laser swirl on the building, I'm like, oh, there it is.

Hovered right on in there, saw the trail, saw the gate.

They talked me in, roped them in.

Mission accomplished.

And it's just, there's something like that that doesn't occur on every mission, but is the difference between success and failure.

When everybody knows their responsibility and their role, everybody's aware.

and everybody's engaged.

And that's just a positive example of that.

So anyway, we only chased a deed for a couple missions, and then we're kind of like, OK, this is an Elvis scenario again.