"I thought the helicopter was crashing. And I just knew that I was in free fall," he says of his first SEAL Team 2 mission. "For one nanosecond, I go, I'm good ... and I had five big frogmen land on top." He went back to Fort Benning as a platoon commander but broke his pelvis during an insertion exercise. The only thing we had on the LZboard so far was a nine-passenger van for our ambulance.