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Kidnapped in Colombia | No Man Left Behind


there was no place in the United States
you couldn’t go it hadn’t been touched
in one way or another by the drug trade
it was award and we weren’t really
winning at the time cocaine and
marijuana started coming out of Columbia
and they were bringing about hand by
airplane and in my aviation skills were
extremely important because in the early
70s that was the primary method of
bringing narcotics into the u.s. cocaine
trafficking was very profitable they had
unlimited resources on a daily basis we
were good parents really I don’t think
he’d ever crossed my mind to be
dangerous I was young and invisible I’d
been on the job for about 13 years I was
a confident my ability to do the job
when I talked to the Bogota FSA Senate
they had information to Pranay that he
is a fugitive from a cocaine arrest in
the United States why be staying at
hotels with the man probably 11 o’clock
news honey
we were both asleep when I heard
somebody pounding on Charlie’s door
every time they knocked every gate more
assistant or aggressive I felt my door
they said they’re gonna shoot it down
and that’s how Columbia’s dealt with
problems you eliminate the problem life
was very cheap from from the moment that
he entered the hotel room you could tell
that Rene Benitez was the guy who’s
gonna be calling the shots Lincoln
stands there with the pistol throwing I
knew we were in serious trouble he had
his finger on the trigger all this time
and the safety was off all you have to
take it just flinch a little bit with
that level of danger does change you
here we are together trying to work this
out as partners and confronting death
with the adrenaline and everything you
get tunnel vision I was trying to find a
way out
how we’re gonna escape and I didn’t want
to escape and leave Kelly hanging you
have a partner and you take care of each
other have each other’s back
but basically drives you at that
situation is the desire to survive it’s
amazing what you can do what the body
can do where you get into survival mode
what a miracle happens you don’t really
look back at but in question why you did
the water when you did that and when you
confront those life-threatening
situations and you survive
there’s bonds that are created that are
like no other bonds
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