Shawn Ryan

Mike Durant, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Pleasure to be here.

It's an honor to have you here.

It's an honor to have you here.

And just like I was telling you on the EDC segment, your name has been percolating around the studio, studios, for a couple of years now.

No, actually, after we interviewed Tom Satterly, your name kept coming up, kept coming up.

And so I just...

really is man it's an honor to have you here and um i think this is um obviously a very important piece of american history that that i would i'm honored to be able to document so and um you know i don't know if this means much but uh you know the for me uh joining the seal teams and you know that whole other life that i did um you know that was

It was the Vietnam generation and you guys that motivated me to do that.

It was the movies and the stories and, man.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, everybody starts with an introduction here.

Mike Durant.

Retired Chief Warrant Officer IV and U.S.

Army helicopter pilot who survived captivity in the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident during Operation Gothic Serpent in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Although doctors said you would never fly again, you proved them wrong, returning to duty after recovery.

Removed a leg rod in 1995 to run the Marine Corps Marathon.

Retired in 2001.