“It’s me,” I said from the car.

“Where are you?”

“Things are going south. Dust storms and there are problems with the helicopters. Caught in a haboob. Did you know about this at the time?”

“No.”

“So you didn’t know something was wrong? There was no talk? You didn’t sense anything?”

“No, there was no talk and no, I didn’t sense anything.”

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I was driving back from Albuquerque and my phone rang.

“Are you going to listen to that thing?”

“I hadn’t planned on it. I am less opposed now but there are some things in my way. For example I have some questions to ask you about this. I don’t know what I am going to listen to and I think it would be better for me if I did. For example where are you in this? I don’t know where you go in this story and I would like to know ahead, I think. For example, were you in Iran itself?”

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“Yeah, well they came and got me to go on this mission. Speedy too. They got him too and we were both just kids. We were teenagers and they don’t take kids on things like this but in this case they had no choice,” he said.

He explained how their training was not only specialized but cutting edge.

“Yeah, there were very few people who could do the technical stuff Speedy and I knew how to do. It was brand new technology. The technology we were using was months old. It was brand spanking new and very, very few people knew anything about it so they came all the way to the desert to get us. And I wasn’t expecting it at all. You know what I was doing. I was just some one-stripe dumbass. I was a private but here they came and got me one day, said how would you like to go to Iran on a secret mission?”

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