and there was a captain, captain kyle walton, who basically knew and just like other members in oda336 knew that there were flaws in this plan, that you don't fight uphill, you try to have the element of surprise. so tactically, he knew that it was unsound. so he took his concerns to his commanders, and his commanders, it was real important to do this mission because afore, like kevin said, was a really bad guy. he had helped finance his men by this gem-smuggling operation. and, in fact, what they later found out, um, through the fbi and cia was that some of those gems had even showed up in, you know, gem shops in arizona. so he was selling these gems to finance his whole, you know, his whole campaign. and, again, going back to that this is a remote valley, captain kyle walton and others on the team knew tactically that this plan was flawed. but even though they knew that it was flawed, knew that there was incredible danger landing the helicopter at the bottom of the valley and that they would have to climb to the top of the mountain to get to this compound where they knew afore was su

captain kyle walton, it was his plan. don't fight uphill, try to have the element of surprise. tactically, he knew that it was unfair. he took his concerns to his commander. and his commander -- it was very important to this mission. as kevin said, he helped is men with the operation, and as they later found out through the fbi and cia, some of those gems had showed that showed up in a junk shop in arizona. going back to the valley, the captain of the team knew that tactically that this plan was flawed. even though they knew it was flawed, they knew that they were in critical danger, they had to get to this compound where haji ghafour was surrounded -- they had really been trained in fighting, they still went and they still went to carry out this mission. kevin can describe what happened once they landed. >> they take off from a base on the border and they fly into this valley. there is some concern about the weather. there is a certain window that they have that they could get in before the cloud cover came. they had to work quickly as well. if you can imagine landing in a hel

captain kyle walton, it was his plan. don't fight uphill, try to have the element of surprise. tactically, he knew that it was unfair. he took his concerns to his commander. and his commander -- it was very important to this mission. as kevin said, he helped is men with the operation, and as they later found out through the fbi and cia, some of those gems had showed that showed up in a junk shop in arizona. going back to the valley, the captain of the team knew that tactically that this plan was flawed. even though they knew it was flawed, they knew that they were in critical danger, they had to get to this compound where haji ghafour was surrounded -- they had really been trained in fighting, they still went and they still went to carry out this mission. kevin can describe what happened once they landed. >> they take off from a base on the border and they fly into this valley. there is some concern about the weather. there is a certain window that they have that they could get in before the cloud cover came. they had to work quickly as well. if you can imagine landing in a hel