I was on this cruise, this was my crew. The only person from the EA-6B that we recovered was Brendon Duffy. Some how he had the wherewithal to climb into his life raft.

I had not seen the footage since that night when I was watching the PLAT. Kind of made my guts twist into a thousand knots.

One minute they were gearing up in my PR shop, and about 30 minutes later they were gone. It wasn't the first time I had lost people in the military, but it remains as the most memorable.