stan hughes was the crew chief. i can't remember the gunner's name. we were sitting on the flight deck and it was around 6:00 in the morning. most of the guys were smarter than me. most of them are always smarter than me. they went to bed. they said, screw this. instead of hanging around, they went to bed. we were walking around the flight deck, back and forth. a guy comes running up, we have a problem. we have 11 marines on the roof at the embassy. i looked at him saying, sure you do. this can't happen. they said, you have to get that aircraft. there was one aircraft on the flight deck. they said, go get it and go. so the crew chief, stan hughes, said, is it ready to go? i said, yeah. he got it buttoned up and everything. we got in there and away we went. we were sort of numb, literally. we were so tired. we started going inbound. just like this aircraft, the problem was, along the coast, you get these squall lines. you get thunderstorms that pop up and they go about 15,000 feet or higher. we thought, how are we going to get through there? we knew th