Scott Jones

Is that gunfire?

Is that another helo shooting?

And I stick my head down like we've got the door open in a Blackhawk, full Hollywood style, mullets flapping in the breeze, M-frames on, sleeves rolled up.

And I look down and there's literally a dude with a PKM blasting me.

And I'm looking in his eyes.

It's probably less than 100 meters because we were about to land.

And we're going slow.

And I can just see the circle of dust around him from the percussion of his machine gun.

And he's just pointing that thing from the hip, just fucking unloading a belt at us in the helo.

And I looked down, like, what the fuck?

And I punched the door gunner in the leg.

I'm like, fucking kill him.

What are you doing?

Like, that's when the ball dropped.

Like, oh, I'm in Afghanistan.

This isn't a range practice.

And I didn't hear or feel any bullets hit the helo, but I imagine they fucking did because I could see it.

Yeah, yeah.

I was looking in his eyes as he's looking in my eyes.

And then we landed and one of the snipers goes, well, why didn't you fucking shoot him then?