Smoke the Donkey Quotes

“There were early mornings–“zero dark thirty,” as they were called–when a special operations helicopter would appear, 300 feet from his quarters. These were UH-60 Blackhawks, which staged on the taxiway far from the rest of the camp. The crews waited in the middle of the night, engines and rotors engaged, until they were called in for a raid as part of a task force so secretive that even its designation was classified.”
― Cate Folsom, Smoke the Donkey: A Marine's Unlikely Friend

“Riding overhead in that August sky were two special constellations: Pegasus, the flying horse, and Equuleus, the little horse -- known by the Arabs as the First Horse, or al-Faras al-Awwal.”
― Cate Folsom, Smoke the Donkey: A Marine's Unlikely Friend

“He fell asleep listening to the hum of the four giant Rolls Royce turbofans and thinking back to the beginning, back to when this adventure had started.”
― Cate Folsom, Smoke the Donkey: A Marine's Unlikely Friend