Military Father | No Man Left Behind

my task was to take out one of the most
high-value strategic command and control
targets in Belgrade the capital city of
the former Republic of Yugoslavia
I felt absolutely totally confident that
I was as well trained and well prepared
as possible for any situation
my mission that night was March 27th
1999 and the next day was my daughter
Gina’s birthday one of my strongest most
persistent thoughts that day was of Gina
and so looking forward to the next day
and being able to call her
I had already squirted away you know
what phone I was gonna use and what time
of the day you know let everybody know
it’s my daughter’s birthday you know and
I’m gonna need to use this phone at this
time because there’s nothing that it’s
gonna prevent me from calling her and
reaching her and connecting with so that
was very important to me
thought of my family’s sadness and
suffering
anguish and sorrow if something really
bad happened to me it was terrifying
the thought of them going through that
was just unthinkable to me
being shot down was not unexpected so
that did not unnerved me in any way when
that all happened so it was all just
very matter-of-fact okay I expected that
this was a strong possibility this would
happen
there wasn’t that element of sudden
unexpected situations happening
completely unnerved the the natural
endorphins were flowing so if I did have
any injuries I had a lot of adrenaline
and endorphins