So our task was to hold that village, hold the track and stop them for 48 hours and we would be extracted.
And so we are on board 2 Chinook helicopters, 13 on one, 14 guys on another Chinook, it was about four o’clock in the afternoon, it was humid and I was soaked in sweat, one set of clothing and your day sack with the thought that we are going to get off the helicopter and we are going to be actively engaged in a gunfight. That was the sort of mind set we were getting the soldiers in.
