 Card number 21, The Enterprise. Richard Gad and Robert Dutton. The Enterprise or Enterprise. Card number 21, Career Air Force Officers Richard Gad and Robert Dutton. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard Gad retired in September 1982 after 20 years of service in covert operations. A career transport pilot, Gad had recently served as liaison between Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, home of unconventional warfare. Gad had learned from friends in the Army Special Operations Division, C-Card number 6, that the Army needed a black commercial transport ability. Passing up a promotion to full Colonel, Gad retired and formed Samarko, which specialized in providing the Pentagon and CIA with clandestine air transport. He arranged to rent planes and hire pirates through Southern Air Transport, a CIA proprietary. When Richard C-Card's Enterprise began his Contra resupply operation in 1985, C-Card number 20, Second C-Card turned to Gad to manage daily logistics. Gad supervised the construction of the Secret Santa Elena Airstrip in Costa Rica, C-Card number 23. In early 1986, C-Card, citing the five P's, pissed poor performance for no prior planning, replaced Gad with retired Air Force Colonel Robert Dutton, Gad's former superior officer. Dutton had served under C-Card in Iran, selling weapons to the Shah, and again in 1980, Iran hostage rescue mission. A cable sent by Dutton from Central America to Oliver North provided a lighter moment during the Iran Contra hearing, sent phone, can survive on milk and cookies and quotes.