April 24, 1980

[ThirdWatcher]

Why would you have a card from a freedom-hating group like that?

I refuse to join AARP.

[Slater]

I was a young A1C at Davis-Monthan AFB at the time. Pretty depressing news, as I recall. That operation had a lot of moving parts that had to work perfectly in order to assure success. If the Desert One disaster hadn't happened, could it have worked? Possibly. Reading Col. Beckwith's book ("Delta Force"), the operators were certainly trained and motivated to a high level.