00:00It's also something where, let's just say that there were 6,500, 7,500 soldiers and marines.
00:06That's a drop in the bucket.
00:08Whenever we went into Iran, excuse me, Iraq, we had nearly 200,000.
00:15So this is completely absurd to think that a small number of airborne, which are very, very lightly armed,
00:22airborne soldiers, as well as, of course, marines, could do anything other than,
00:27I mean, yes, they could take an island, but they will be absolutely targets.
00:30I was actually in the 82nd Airborne myself as a company commander a long time ago,
00:35back in 1979 when the Shah fell.
00:38We were on alert to go into Tehran to be able to seize the airport.
00:43Cooler heads prevailed, and they called off the mission because they knew that an airborne brigade
00:49dropping into the middle of tens of thousands of armed military, we would not have survived.
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