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@@menachem2521I certainly agree with you, thou speaking as a Civ (with the deepest admiration for all our Vets) I think the high speed gets so much attention because they’re out there telling their stories. Most vets I’ve known IRL are incredibly humble, but thats what I love about this channel giving a platform to the bulk of our soldiers. I wish there were more outlets doing this so their actions can be more widely recognized and more Americans can be exposed to the men and women that went to hell and back while they were comfortably drinking their soy lattes and taking our liberties for granted.
@@bykycilbut channels like Sean Ryan’s and Jocko’s are relatable? Like theirs, this channel sees veterans sharing their experiences, with the majority having served in, or attached to Victor units. Make your comment make sense.
@@michaelsinclair7253 bro call me crazy but those are psy ops channels and get boost by algorithm, also so many war channels out there, very saturated. lots of competition
Hollywood Marine here, thanks for sharing your story devil dog. I also was in Fallujah around the same time you were. Hearing your story brought back memories raaah brother semper Fi
I just found this channel the content is absolutely incredible!! I never served but I am a navy brat my dad did 24 years as a corpsman. Thanks everyone for all you did and do and continue to do!
@@threatresponse685was army JROTC have deep passion and respect for everyone in the military and since 2019 to now I’ve watched hundreds of hours of podcast it’s insane. This was easily top 10 favorites. What a story thank you for your sacrifices and keep on telling the stories of those fearless men.
Bro I gotta tell you the first 20 minites of this video had me in tears from laughing so hard. The Marine Corps is a small world. A tiny world and you found that out while in the DEP...LOL. Semper Fi man and honestly this was a great video. Thanks for bringing back some great memories
the west coast did it way different in 2007, we do the crucible at the end of phase 2 and the pinncale of all that is climbing the reaper and they gave us our dog tags at the top. im a former 0311 myself, my deployment was to fallujah in early 2008 and i dont think you would believe me if i told you it was a night and day difference between your time there and my time, a few IEDs, we didnt lose anyone, no injuries even for my platoon and we were operating ECP5 over by blackwater bridge and the new one they built and then we spent 3 months in the dead center/north of the city, its crazy to hear how wild it was just a few years before i was there and to see it when i was there in 2008 where it was all peacekeeping and presence patrols and dealing with local disputes. we had 3 guys die out of our whole battallion and 2 of them were guys i went to bootcamp with and was friends with both but one in particular i was very close with but he was in a different company. all that fighting and crazy stuff you guys did before i was there paid off in the long run, people were free to walk the streets with little to no fear at all, while the locals were ready for us to just leave they werent really trying to kill us either. my good friend who died i never got closure with, right before we shipped out we did a hug and a handshake and said we would share stories over drinks when we got back, he never made it back. the way ive dealt with losing friends, especially all the suicides, jesus christ the suicide numbers dwarf any losses my unit suffered during all of its deployments, but the way i deal with it is just trying to live my lfie and be the best person i can, the best father the best husband because i have to make up for the guys who are no longer here, they cant enjoy these things, theyll never have kids theyll never have a wife to grow old with their families will never get to spend quality time with them again and its our duty to honor them by living fully.
@@Paul-f7q people that have served are going to relate to these videos a lot more than someone like me, and from your comment I assume someone like you. The guy in the video was talking about how hard it was to come home to the civilian world. Do you not think it might be refreshing for them to hear these guys speak and realise that they aren't alone, and that other people have had to deal with the same things? Have some empathy.
I just love and admire this man. Thank you Sgt. Edwards for sharing your story and propping up support for veterans and gold star families. I find myself circling back and listening to this interview over and over again. It incites so many emotions. Listening to your experiences and perspective is beyond humbling. It makes me proud and grateful for our service members, thankful for our freedoms and security, it makes my heart ache, for the suffering of our service members, their loved ones, for civilians in wartorn countries, it's inspiring to hear of your bravery and the leadership your received and gained in your years of service. Man, simply put - everything about this interview is 💯 top notch. Thank you Urban Valor for building this platform for this information to be shared. Hats off to all of you!
I probably know Jake from growing up in Cville. I went to school and played lacrosse with Cpl. Brad Arms. The Post Office in Charlottesville is named after him. RIP.
Awesome interview. I was a 1371 in HS Co., 4th CEB in the 90's. One of my ATD's was with Bravo Co. from Roanoke at Pendleton, don't think I ever went anywhere with Charlie Co. I feel very lucky it was peaceful during my contract.
Watching these stories,upsets me so much more,"there are actually veterans homeless",i had no idea. This current, lack of gov.,Pisses me off big time. Thank you. Semper Fi Brother
God bless our Gold Star Families. My favorite aunt's only son was KIA during WWII. She was emotionally wounded (about 50 years) until she passed at 94 yrs of age
I read "We Were One" years ago... Jake talking about the guys who didn't make it is pretty heavy, I still remember those names from reading about them. Brave dudes, those guys.
Thank you for your service. My fathers best friend. Basically my uncle, was in 3/1 Kilo Co. durning the Phantom Fury campaign. He fought in Falujiah, Ramadi, Nazaria, Najaf, Invasion of Iraq ect.. I not gonna give his name out on here, only to those who know or remember him he goes by “Cube” I’d love to get him on here one day to tell his story. 🇺🇸
I was in 3/1 India Co my second enlistment, went through the Invasion with 1/2 we were the ones hit there in Nasiryah March 23 2003, I reenlisted and after the Invasion and was sent to 3/1 just in time to hit Phantom Fury and stayed with them for the next 8 years. We were in some of the worst fighting. My last deployment with them was in 2010 to Helmand. Tell him a brother from 3/1 said Semper Fi
@@sukt00 brother 11th Marines were amazing, you did shoot for us for sure. Man for real from the bottom of my heart, thank you for putting steel on target the way you did. There were a few times shit got real hectic. Semper Fi brother
LMFAOOO that drill instructor should’ve been like “well guess who’s in boot camp now”😂😂😂 if he knew from the beginning he’d bully this guy so much haha
When I was in combat school, our instructors, all grunts with combat experience, introduced us to a combat engineer for one of our classes. One of them emphasized how ballsy it is to be a combat engineer, and that they truly were the tip of the spear in a lot of the street battles they endured.
I was there when Brad Arms was KIA, along with Joseph Welki, and Philip West all in the same house. Alex Sargent was seriously injured in the same house.
3/5 Getsome! Hey brother.. 1:05mins into this -I LOVE you bit in addressing the humor of Marines! I served with kilo co. 3/5 and like you - 2004 fall-ujah veteran.. and YES! OF ALL the violence and death- WHAT I remember most is of course -THE DANGEROUS humor that us killers posses! Love you my friend- God bless
Pushing the horror away is something we all do. We all have closets in our minds that we push our experiences in. Throughout our lives we keep having to build NEW Closets to store our nightmares in. Those closets have locks on them for a reason. We might need to visit them but remember to close and lock them up and stash the key away
It makes me proud to be an American that he and so many were inspired to join after 911. The chilling remark he made so offhandedly was “ they told us we would all return but never specified we would all be alive”
Wassef Hassoun disappeared from a base in Fallujah, Iraq, in June 2004. Days later, he appeared blindfolded and with a sword poised above his head in a photo purportedly taken by insurgents. An extremist group claimed to be holding him captive. He was later found to have deserted and faked the photo. He spent 2 years in prison for it
My cousin is a Marine that did 3 tours in Iraq. His first tour was Fallujah in 2005 i think. I remember him coming home and telling me how many CKs he had and I thought he was full of it. Now that im older and have learned about Fallujah he was definitely telling me waaaay less than the real deal. Years later he lost his 33 year old wife to cancer, fast fwd to last year he shoots and k1lls someone in self defense who was tweaked out on drugs breaking into his house with him and his family home. Hes a soldier for real for real and i hope to get to document his story someday.
You and the guys you served with are fucking hero’s man. My father was a EOD tech over there 07-08. We owe you and the guys that paid the full price everything. If your ever in middle Georgia reach out, dinner and beer on me devil dog.
I found this Marine's statements regarding academia near the end as interesting. I'm not an academic and I'm not military. My profession is Archaeology and I have a few other diplomas including International Studies Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution. That being said I'm not very anti-war. Anyways in my life and in my line of work, I'm often times over seas in dangerous places and I'm usually with a few team mates or entirely on my own. One example of what goes on wearing my shoes includes handling and moving crates of blasting gel in and out of a cave in Eastern Ukraine in 2014-2015 while guys with huge cameras, probably FSB stalk us. If myself or a team mate gets kidnapped, held at gun point, shot at or blown up we're not getting any help. I've been held at gunpoint before by scared civilians who accused me of being anything other than an American. At best if something happens local emergency services will respond. We don't have all the resources our military has to save our guys and gals in uniform. So when I see this with our military I feel kinda miffed and irritated thinking how lucky they are to at least ideally expect the entire support structure behind them to take care of them. If not they at least have a lot more people who understand what they go through. I'm not sure if it's jealousy but it's something similar to that feeling. I notice this the most when I deal with my own struggles with reintegrating into domestic American life, because I at best have about 5 people total who can relate with me about what I go through. The work I do and the direct experience I have leaves me with resentment for uneducated and/or inexperienced Americans who talk about what goes on over seas without truly knowing and understanding it. This cross section of America includes veterans as much as PhD holders. Obviously Uncle Sam doesn't exactly want the boots on the ground to understand the full scope of what's going on or they're more likely to call BS and refuse orders. When I get triggered or a something I'm always on the complete opposite side of the fence. I don't understand the kind of guys who freak out when they see an American burning a flag because I do the opposite. I see that in and of itself a symbol of our freedom. I think about how in most any other nation on earth if I saw people doing this, they would be getting arrested if not massacred. So my American pride and how I express these things can often times be directly opposite of how many veterans will express it. The most twisted part though is the reason we're both like this is because of the exact same things. I'm just leaving my story here because it's best for us to all take care of each other and an integral part of that is understanding each other with accuracy and compassion. Good luck out there everyone.
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This UA-cam channel is a goldmine for Marines that are out and struggling with being a civilian.
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Yup, there really isn't enough out there that focuses on the normal Marine. Everyone only focuses on the high speed guys.
For real, like the grunts didn't eat sh*t sandwiches on the daily during all the major offensives across both Irocket and Assghanistan.
@@menachem2521I certainly agree with you, thou speaking as a Civ (with the deepest admiration for all our Vets) I think the high speed gets so much attention because they’re out there telling their stories. Most vets I’ve known IRL are incredibly humble, but thats what I love about this channel giving a platform to the bulk of our soldiers. I wish there were more outlets doing this so their actions can be more widely recognized and more Americans can be exposed to the men and women that went to hell and back while they were comfortably drinking their soy lattes and taking our liberties for granted.
@@geebee802 right on
Why is this channel so underrated, it doesn’t get the right recognition it deserves.
This channel has 114k subscribers WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
The stories are totally unrelatable to almost everyone. I mean no disrespect, just answering your question.
@@bykycilbut channels like Sean Ryan’s and Jocko’s are relatable? Like theirs, this channel sees veterans sharing their experiences, with the majority having served in, or attached to Victor units. Make your comment make sense.
I personally like and enjoy the content. I appreciate it very much. Nothing I said doesn't make sense Mike. Relax.
@@michaelsinclair7253 bro call me crazy but those are psy ops channels and get boost by algorithm, also so many war channels out there, very saturated. lots of competition
Hollywood Marine here, thanks for sharing your story devil dog. I also was in Fallujah around the same time you were. Hearing your story brought back memories raaah brother semper Fi
Anti-war Marine is an oxymoron
@theobvious1958 he isn't an anti-war Marine.
Who was you with? I was in 3/1 wpns back then
Ty sir
@@MethodizationsI was with 3 1 India, 2004-05
I was in vehicle 4 during that hit too. Jake when you mentioned that event, my chest got tight Bro.
I didn’t know you were in that truck.
This is my Brother. I was his radio operator. Our engineering platoon supported 3/1 in our generations Hua City Battle AKA Fallujah.
thank you for your service brother.
Welcome home brother
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Thank you for your service. All of you!
THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WITH PEACE AND LOVE
You guys always bring the best stories that have to be heard! Always a great hour or 2 to listen while on the road hauling this truck!!
Appreciate you listening brother 🤙🏼🇺🇸👊🏼
I just found this channel the content is absolutely incredible!! I never served but I am a navy brat my dad did 24 years as a corpsman. Thanks everyone for all you did and do and continue to do!
Much respect your dad 🫡 and appreciate you watching 🤙🏼
Powerful and emotional story, thank you for sharing your experience.
I really enjoyed the attitude this young man has.
Thank you 🙏 I definitely have never shared this much detail, ever.
@@threatresponse685was army JROTC have deep passion and respect for everyone in the military and since 2019 to now I’ve watched hundreds of hours of podcast it’s insane. This was easily top 10 favorites. What a story thank you for your sacrifices and keep on telling the stories of those fearless men.
He is an incredible story teller.
Bro I gotta tell you the first 20 minites of this video had me in tears from laughing so hard. The Marine Corps is a small world. A tiny world and you found that out while in the DEP...LOL. Semper Fi man and honestly this was a great video. Thanks for bringing back some great memories
A kid in one of the other platoons in my company rode the same school bus as one of our platoon DI's. Pvt Boney. LOL.
Great interview thanks for your service!!! I hope the vets that need help and support get what they need!!
Thank you Sir for your service!
the west coast did it way different in 2007, we do the crucible at the end of phase 2 and the pinncale of all that is climbing the reaper and they gave us our dog tags at the top. im a former 0311 myself, my deployment was to fallujah in early 2008 and i dont think you would believe me if i told you it was a night and day difference between your time there and my time, a few IEDs, we didnt lose anyone, no injuries even for my platoon and we were operating ECP5 over by blackwater bridge and the new one they built and then we spent 3 months in the dead center/north of the city, its crazy to hear how wild it was just a few years before i was there and to see it when i was there in 2008 where it was all peacekeeping and presence patrols and dealing with local disputes. we had 3 guys die out of our whole battallion and 2 of them were guys i went to bootcamp with and was friends with both but one in particular i was very close with but he was in a different company. all that fighting and crazy stuff you guys did before i was there paid off in the long run, people were free to walk the streets with little to no fear at all, while the locals were ready for us to just leave they werent really trying to kill us either. my good friend who died i never got closure with, right before we shipped out we did a hug and a handshake and said we would share stories over drinks when we got back, he never made it back. the way ive dealt with losing friends, especially all the suicides, jesus christ the suicide numbers dwarf any losses my unit suffered during all of its deployments, but the way i deal with it is just trying to live my lfie and be the best person i can, the best father the best husband because i have to make up for the guys who are no longer here, they cant enjoy these things, theyll never have kids theyll never have a wife to grow old with their families will never get to spend quality time with them again and its our duty to honor them by living fully.
Damn bro just write the book already. His yarn, not yours.
@@Paul-f7q people that have served are going to relate to these videos a lot more than someone like me, and from your comment I assume someone like you.
The guy in the video was talking about how hard it was to come home to the civilian world. Do you not think it might be refreshing for them to hear these guys speak and realise that they aren't alone, and that other people have had to deal with the same things?
Have some empathy.
this interview was really touching much respect
Appreciate you listening 🤙🏼
Thank you for telling your story.
Appreciate you watching 👊🏼🇺🇸🤙🏼
I just love and admire this man. Thank you Sgt. Edwards for sharing your story and propping up support for veterans and gold star families. I find myself circling back and listening to this interview over and over again. It incites so many emotions. Listening to your experiences and perspective is beyond humbling. It makes me proud and grateful for our service members, thankful for our freedoms and security, it makes my heart ache, for the suffering of our service members, their loved ones, for civilians in wartorn countries, it's inspiring to hear of your bravery and the leadership your received and gained in your years of service. Man, simply put - everything about this interview is 💯 top notch. Thank you Urban Valor for building this platform for this information to be shared. Hats off to all of you!
You are an amazing person. I'm glad to be a veteran beside you, brother.
Just found your channel. I was a Corpsman with 3/4 Wpns 81’s plt in 2004-2006. Brings back memories
Shadey ones!
I probably know Jake from growing up in Cville. I went to school and played lacrosse with Cpl. Brad Arms. The Post Office in Charlottesville is named after him. RIP.
Thank you brother for this story and that kind you for you’re service
Thanks for listening
"You naaaaaaasty little thang!" Lol Thats gold.
This is a great channel. Binging like crazy. 🇺🇸
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for your story and for your service. God bless all you hero’s 🙏
Thanks for the support! 🙏🏼
Thank you Sir for your service .🦅 Amazing detailed interesting story Thank you. 👍👍👍👍👍
Appreciate your support 👊🏼🇺🇸👊🏼
Good man Edwards, enjoyed your story telling on this warming up August morning in Oxford.
Can relate... I turned 21 in boot camp. I loved combat, loved the brotherhood, but after 4 years, I was happy to leave.
Was in Al Taqqadum when the contractors got hung. Crazy Times
@@gbollcThank you for your service from Richmond Virginia
Rah
You loved a little 2 much for me
@@kingjgweunhmmmhxexhuhBNjkfestn Show everyone here on the doll where I touched you.
Thank you for answering. Enjoy your content. Take care. From Texas
Thanks, you too 🤙🏼
These men and women who serve are such Heroes, we are blessed to witness and listen to these legends, thanks for everything!
I really admire his sence of humor especially what he witnessed and felt ❤️💙🙏🇺🇸
Awesome interview. I was a 1371 in HS Co., 4th CEB in the 90's. One of my ATD's was with Bravo Co. from Roanoke at Pendleton, don't think I ever went anywhere with Charlie Co. I feel very lucky it was peaceful during my contract.
Thank you for your service sir
Appreciate the support 🤙🏼
Jolan District in Fallujah, horrors were below the street. Was there from 05-06.
Thank you for your service and this interview
Appreciate you watching 🙏🏼
Watching these stories,upsets me so much more,"there are actually veterans homeless",i had no idea. This current, lack of gov.,Pisses me off big time. Thank you. Semper Fi Brother
Very well spoken. I like seeing the improvement and growth of this channel. I was watching when you had almost like 20k subscribers
Great story teller. Well worth the listen 👏👏👏
The military was your destiny. Thank you, Sir, for your sacrifice, courage, and tenacity. YOU are one of The Few, The Proud, THE MARINES!!!
Appreciate the kind words 🙏
Took me a few times to listen to this one but it was well worth it!
This channel should have 10 million subs
Thank you 🙏🏼
My Grandfather's brother Paul was on the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS. Thank you bro!
God bless our Gold Star Families. My favorite aunt's only son was KIA during WWII. She was emotionally wounded (about 50 years) until she passed at 94 yrs of age
"Hey marine, why didn't you salute me?"
"Sir I'm saving your life"🤣🤣
We have Marines, We are blessed.
🙏🏼💯 thank you for the support
Semper Fi, Brother! I was in (Wpns) 3/1 in the late 80's. Thanks for continuing the Mission!
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I read "We Were One" years ago... Jake talking about the guys who didn't make it is pretty heavy, I still remember those names from reading about them. Brave dudes, those guys.
this channel is a gem.
Thank you for your service. My fathers best friend. Basically my uncle, was in 3/1 Kilo Co. durning the Phantom Fury campaign. He fought in Falujiah, Ramadi, Nazaria, Najaf, Invasion of Iraq ect.. I not gonna give his name out on here, only to those who know or remember him he goes by “Cube” I’d love to get him on here one day to tell his story. 🇺🇸
Appreciate you watching brother 👊🏼🇺🇸🤙🏼
I was in 3/1 India Co my second enlistment, went through the Invasion with 1/2 we were the ones hit there in Nasiryah March 23 2003, I reenlisted and after the Invasion and was sent to 3/1 just in time to hit Phantom Fury and stayed with them for the next 8 years. We were in some of the worst fighting. My last deployment with them was in 2010 to Helmand. Tell him a brother from 3/1 said Semper Fi
@@hatfieldmccoy0311 BLACK LIVES MATTER!!
@@sukt00 brother 11th Marines were amazing, you did shoot for us for sure. Man for real from the bottom of my heart, thank you for putting steel on target the way you did. There were a few times shit got real hectic. Semper Fi brother
@@hatfieldmccoy0311what platoon were you assigned to, I was in 3rd platoon 3 1 .. SSGT Mac was my plt sgt.
Jake Edwards THANK YOU for your service.
This guy knows how to tell a story. Thank You for Your Service! ❤🤍💙
Thank you for your service Marine and sharing your story.
Another legendary warrior here in this video. I hope we can get Sgt Connor on here next if he’s willing.
Thank you for sharing your incredible life experience with us. God bless 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very happy to see this channel start to get it's flowers
Thanks brother 🤙🏼
dang he got ratted out in basic... that was hilarious and enraging to listen to at the same time
Right, that was hilarious. Definetly bogus of the other guy to rat him out 😂
And I just got ratt3d out for something in my basic training (canadian army bmq) at st jean... ☠️
The last few sentences hit hard. I’m following through with that.
I always look for Fallujah marine stories
In time more will speak out
Ty to this soldier, words just can't describe sometimes I'm sure
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You are a hero and have my utmost respect. Thank you
Thankyou, Sgt. Edwards 🇺🇲
These men are incredible
Thank you for your support!
Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing this story Brother! Tucson Arizona Desert 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
1:07 lol "The summer of 69" song popped in my head man lol. This comment is so stupid but I had to share lol.
US Army veteran here. I love listening to Marines tell stories to compare and contrast my experiences downrange compared to the devil dogs.
It would really help if you added time stamps or “chapters” imo but dope vids
Noted, thanks for watching 👊🏼🤙🏼
God bless you & your fellow soldiers.
Amazing story. Total respect 🙏🙏🙏
LMFAOOO that drill instructor should’ve been like “well guess who’s in boot camp now”😂😂😂 if he knew from the beginning he’d bully this guy so much haha
You are yall fing heros. We all thank you! Heros! I thank u!
When I was in combat school, our instructors, all grunts with combat experience, introduced us to a combat engineer for one of our classes. One of them emphasized how ballsy it is to be a combat engineer, and that they truly were the tip of the spear in a lot of the street battles they endured.
Welcome home Sergeant Edwards! Thank you for your service in Iraq and at home in Virginia.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Sgt Edwards, you are your Brothers Keeper! Semper Fidelis, Marine!
Another amazing guest 👏👏🇺🇸
I was there when Brad Arms was KIA, along with Joseph Welki, and Philip West all in the same house. Alex Sargent was seriously injured in the same house.
They were assigned to 3rd platoon 3rd Battalion 1st Marines India Co.
Hofman told me he was there too.
@@threatresponse685 which Hofmann, we had 2, 1 in 2nd plt and 1 in 3rd plt. Ben Hof was with 3rd with me
@@allenleatherwood7493, Ben Hofman, the tall guy.
@@threatresponse685 yea Ben is pretty tall, he was a SAW gunner for our platoon
The boot camp stories and poolie stories are hilarious. Brings back memories. Thanks for sharing man. Semper fi
Cool stories. Thanks
Another solid interview. Semper Fi 93-99.
Wow!! Fascinating!! Thank you both !! 👏🏽
Appreciate you watching 👊🏼🇺🇸🤙🏼
Much respect ❤
🤙🏼 thank you
I love these stories
Thanks for watching 🤙🏼
3/5 Getsome! Hey brother.. 1:05mins into this -I LOVE you bit in addressing the humor of Marines! I served with kilo co. 3/5 and like you - 2004 fall-ujah veteran.. and YES! OF ALL the violence and death- WHAT I remember most is of course -THE DANGEROUS humor that us killers posses! Love you my friend- God bless
Pushing the horror away is something we all do. We all have closets in our minds that we push our experiences in. Throughout our lives we keep having to build NEW Closets to store our nightmares in. Those closets have locks on them for a reason. We might need to visit them but remember to close and lock them up and stash the key away
It makes me proud to be an American that he and so many were inspired to join after 911. The chilling remark he made so offhandedly was “ they told us we would all return but never specified we would all be alive”
You all are friggin BEASTS im honored i was NAVY Vietnam time you dudes studs kicked ass🇺🇸🎖️🐕🦺☘️ shamrock thanks you my GSD
This one is really good👍💯
This was a dope ass episode! Dude had me laughing at times man.
Wait a Marine that went UA in Iraq when you found his cami top and bottoms did you follow up on that. I knew about Berg but not the Marine
Wassef Hassoun disappeared from a base in Fallujah, Iraq, in June 2004. Days later, he appeared blindfolded and with a sword poised above his head in a photo purportedly taken by insurgents. An extremist group claimed to be holding him captive. He was later found to have deserted and faked the photo. He spent 2 years in prison for it
I was at the Ding compound when it was blown up, 3/1 India. Does anyone know where to find that footage of the attack?
I have it. Let me know how I can send it to you.
Hey Ott, I've got that video if you still need it
Blue ridge Native love this story thanks for representing !
My cousin is a Marine that did 3 tours in Iraq. His first tour was Fallujah in 2005 i think. I remember him coming home and telling me how many CKs he had and I thought he was full of it. Now that im older and have learned about Fallujah he was definitely telling me waaaay less than the real deal. Years later he lost his 33 year old wife to cancer, fast fwd to last year he shoots and k1lls someone in self defense who was tweaked out on drugs breaking into his house with him and his family home. Hes a soldier for real for real and i hope to get to document his story someday.
Thanks for your story brother. I didn’t serve but I appreciate the heck out of the guys that did. Thank you 🙏🏼
Also there's always a blue falcon in every platoon
Thank you sir
Jaaaaaake!!! Way to go brother!!
Thanks, homie
You and the guys you served with are fucking hero’s man. My father was a EOD tech over there 07-08. We owe you and the guys that paid the full price everything. If your ever in middle Georgia reach out, dinner and beer on me devil dog.
Dude... I was at Abu same time!!! Preciate yall taking care of us while we played babysitter!!!!
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I found this Marine's statements regarding academia near the end as interesting. I'm not an academic and I'm not military. My profession is Archaeology and I have a few other diplomas including International Studies Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution. That being said I'm not very anti-war. Anyways in my life and in my line of work, I'm often times over seas in dangerous places and I'm usually with a few team mates or entirely on my own. One example of what goes on wearing my shoes includes handling and moving crates of blasting gel in and out of a cave in Eastern Ukraine in 2014-2015 while guys with huge cameras, probably FSB stalk us. If myself or a team mate gets kidnapped, held at gun point, shot at or blown up we're not getting any help. I've been held at gunpoint before by scared civilians who accused me of being anything other than an American. At best if something happens local emergency services will respond. We don't have all the resources our military has to save our guys and gals in uniform. So when I see this with our military I feel kinda miffed and irritated thinking how lucky they are to at least ideally expect the entire support structure behind them to take care of them. If not they at least have a lot more people who understand what they go through. I'm not sure if it's jealousy but it's something similar to that feeling. I notice this the most when I deal with my own struggles with reintegrating into domestic American life, because I at best have about 5 people total who can relate with me about what I go through. The work I do and the direct experience I have leaves me with resentment for uneducated and/or inexperienced Americans who talk about what goes on over seas without truly knowing and understanding it. This cross section of America includes veterans as much as PhD holders. Obviously Uncle Sam doesn't exactly want the boots on the ground to understand the full scope of what's going on or they're more likely to call BS and refuse orders. When I get triggered or a something I'm always on the complete opposite side of the fence. I don't understand the kind of guys who freak out when they see an American burning a flag because I do the opposite. I see that in and of itself a symbol of our freedom. I think about how in most any other nation on earth if I saw people doing this, they would be getting arrested if not massacred. So my American pride and how I express these things can often times be directly opposite of how many veterans will express it. The most twisted part though is the reason we're both like this is because of the exact same things. I'm just leaving my story here because it's best for us to all take care of each other and an integral part of that is understanding each other with accuracy and compassion. Good luck out there everyone.
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