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The Paul Finebaum Show
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"What is up, Marty? Man, I'm excited for this one, brother. It's always great to be at the iron bowl. It doesn't matter where we are, which town doesn't matter what the records are. This one always has so much excitement and it matters so much to the people in this state. And I'm thoroughly impressed with auburn since Cadillac took over. He has those guys galvanized. He has them passionate. They're running the football downhill with a lot of physicality and coach Saban has preached that to his team this week that we have to match that intensity and in speaking with those guys at Alabama. They're really impressed with the energy that the teams had this week. They're diligent this week. They seem to be tremendously focused. And that hadn't been the case in every single week this season. So I think coach Saban's really confident he'll be on Marty and McGee tomorrow morning around. 9 45 Eastern Time so we can ask him ourselves kind of where his head is as they head into this weekend, but I wanted to just share something real quick that I'm gonna have. On SEC nation tomorrow, we have an amazing feature, a great producer and friend of Paul and Monday in Esparza. And I have done a piece on the operation iron rook. I don't know if you're familiar with this, but this is military veterans from both auburn university and the university of Alabama who participate in a 151 mile ruck march with 22 pounds on their back and one reason they do that is it's awareness for veteran suicide. Which is something that we should all be aware of and something that these guys are doing such an amazing job to raise awareness there with operation iron rook and we'll have that feature tomorrow on SEC nation. Yeah, we had a retired general on the other day on Veterans Day. And he alluded to that as being, as you know, by far, one of the most serious issues that is face veterans. It is. And I actually have a stat here. This as we started to work through this piece and learn about what these veterans are going through this stat is unbelievable to me, suicide is the second leading cause of death for post 9 11 veterans in the United States of America with one 125,000 veterans taking their own lives since 2001. And these are the heroes that fight for our freedom and that sacrifice every day so that we can be free. So what these guys do is they deliver the game ball. They bring the game ball from one campus to the other campus. So deliver the game ball for the iron bowl. So appreciate what those guys are doing and look forward to meeting a bunch of them tomorrow. They'll be at the set with us at SEC nation. Yeah, I wanted to make one reference to Veterans Day piece you had. I was, I think in the hotel room a couple weeks ago and I came apart when you had the veteran of FaceTiming with Jack Nichols. I thought that was one of the most extraordinary things I've seen. Thank you. Yes, his name is sergeant Aaron silton. He was a marine raider. And was engaged in a firefight in Afghanistan and took a sniper around through his jaw here, the left jaw, ripped his tongue off and went out as carotid artery on the other side and had a bunch of strokes between the battlefield and them getting him to the hospital, spent more than a year in rehab and ultimately found the game of golf and the game of golf saved his life. And so I reached out to mister Nicholas and asked him if he would invite sergeant silton to American dunes, which is the amazing course up in Michigan that the folks at folds of honor built in mister Nicholas designed and did that and I'll tell you, Paul, you and I engage in a lot of different people every day, but when I saw sergeant silton remove his hat. When he saw mister Nicholas, I just as good as it gets and man, I'm full of gratitude just to get to spend the time in fellowship with that guy. What's he wrote? Yeah, I got to tell you more about your encounter and obviously there's a lot of famous people that you know or friends with, but it's really the people that we've never heard of until you bring out that probably tug at me the most. Well, one thing that that was such a keen reminder of for me that specific story and even what we're doing here with operation iron rook is we engage in people on a daily basis and we consider what they are, not who they are. Right. And it's such a reminder that all of us are going through something. Everybody's going through something. And if we just take a moment, maybe to learn their story and ask about their life, it might have a profound impact on them when they need that feeling of hope. And sergeant silken certainly reminded me of that because I mean, this is a guy who's teaching people about their golf swing. He's selling them golf clubs. And he, you know, he has a bit of a speech issue because of the strokes that he had. And you wouldn't know why, unless you asked, and then if you ask and you learn what a hero, he is for all of us, you can learn so much about his life. And I'm full of gratitude for him. Incredible. And thank you again for sharing all of that with us. Thank you for your Paul sent me the nicest note that morning via text and it just meant so much to me. Thank you. Thank you, Marty. We'll see more tomorrow morning on Marty and McGee plus a visit by Nick Saban. We're not done here yet. We still have a long way to go. Another hour with a number of people, including Cole, will join us in a couple of minutes, Steven M Smith, Chris doering, and more of your phone calls as we head toward the final hour in Tuscaloosa. Thank you for listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast, the Paul fine bomb show airs weekdays on the SEC network beginning at three eastern.
This American President
"marine raiders" Discussed on This American President
"Was in the marines. He was in a special unit called the marine raiders or Carlson's raiders. Because his commander was named Evans Carlson and I just feel like a personal connection. I feel like I'm in some ways tracing my father's steps. My father was a lot older than me. He was in his late 40s when I was born. He was born in 1919. I was born in 1968. So almost a 50 year difference between us and unfortunately, he passed away when I was still a fairly young man. I guess I was about 36. He passed away in June of 2004. He had had Alzheimer's so really he hadn't been able to have regular conversations for several years prior to that. So I feel like I really lost him in the late 90s. And sadly, my father was like a lot of World War II veterans in that he just didn't talk about it much. My dad, I could probably count on two hands, maybe even one hand, the number of times that my dad actually told me specifics of the things that he did during the war. I know he was in the battles of Guadalcanal. He was at Tarawa. He was at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Obviously those are all horrible bloody battles, those are all like, you know, just marine icons of battle, if you will, those are epic things kind of like Verdun for the French and World War II. World War I, I'm sorry, or the psalm, or the Battle of the Bulge for the allies and the Germans and the western front. So I really felt like I'm in a way getting reacquainted with my father and his life, even though I'm not actually fortunately I'm not out there actually fighting it. But so I'm really dedicating this series to my dad, colonel Cleveland Y early. The United States Marine Corps. He served from 1941 to 1967. And reached the rank of full colonel. And he was a tough customer. He had to have been anyway, so this is for my dad, colonel early, and I'm really excited. I really enjoyed doing the research for this..
Veterans Chronicles
"marine raiders" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"She has written three books on military history, the most recent marine raiders, the true story of the legendary World War II battalions. And Carol as we begin to wrap up our conversation here, let's talk about what happened to the marine raiders. After bloody ridge, after the long patrol, the marines added two more greater battalions, but it wasn't that much later that the Raiders themselves were eventually disbanded. So what happened? As the war progressed, and they began climbing up the marines and began climbing up what came to be called the island ladder toward the mainland of Japan, the fighting simply required thousands and thousands more troops. Heavier and heavier equipment. Greater and greater gun power. And the Raiders were lightly armed, fast moving commando raiding type troops and they their whole mission and they'd been trained to get in their very fast, maybe at night, fast moving secretly, create chaos, create confusion, gather intelligence, kill enemy and then move back out just as quickly. So as they began to get to these other islands that are so much, you know, so heavier, fortified, with so many more thousands of Japanese troops. The need for these kind of fast moving quick hitting commando style units, the Raiders simply were no longer needed nor could they function under these fortified stationary targets. So they were disbanded and they were folded into the writers were folded into other marine units that did not keep them, though, from performing at the highest level imaginable. They still continued being awarded medals of honor medals of valor. And it's just an amazing, it's an amazing story. The number of valor awards, awarded to marine raiders. At the end of by the end of the war, four outraged the percentage number of writers that there were compared to the total number..
Veterans Chronicles
"marine raiders" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"Home why was I allowed to live? I have found that many, many men come back for more than I've interviewed. And they will, they question that. There's almost like a guilt about it. Having left so many of their friends on the battlefield. And we tell the story of it and what happens to him. Long story short, he becomes a missionary for the rest of his life after he returns from war. And went to Belize was down there for 25, 30 years, orphanages, churches, preached in Spanish and just dedicated his life to the rainforest and the tribes that lived in Belize. Amazing stories, while we've talked about the bloody ridge, Carroll, let's talk about the long patrol, and this was more with the second raider battalion and that brings us back to mud hole Meryl, who was part of that. But days and days on end to find and eliminate pockets of Japanese fighters, so you've got the persistent danger of combat. And then you've got the brutal conditions you mentioned earlier just of being in the jungle all that time. So talk about the toll that took on him and the other men. They started the long patrol in an area called aioli bay sort of around that area. It's really south, west of where Henderson field was. And before they started Carlson called one of his gung Ho meetings and he told them that Henderson field actually was only about 25, 30 miles away from where they were right then, where they started. And Carlson added as the crow flies. Well, one of the men popped up and said one of his second battalion raiders popped up and said, but sir, you know, we ain't crows. Because the fact of the matter is, they were on that long patrol for 30 31 days. And by the time they got back to Henderson field they had traveled a 150 miles, winding in and out, this serpentine line winding in and out of the jungle. They were led by a man named zuza. Who was he was a tough character himself. He'd been tortured by the Japanese to tell what all he knew about the marines landing at all like that. And he didn't give up any information. And he became one of the best guides that the marines had. And he was on that long patrol. He had carriers that he brought with him. Other members of his tribe that carried the long patrol carry their ammo and some food and different things. And they were in unknown territory, either because these areas that they went through back in the jungle, they strives when had never been back there either. And they encountered all different kinds of pockets of Japanese, took them out. But they would sometimes go for three or four days without food. They only had about a couple of days of rations with them when they started out. They thought they were going to be able to get some drops and they just were not able to locate them once once they got back up into those thick thick Canopy jungles. So sometimes they would go three or four days without food, the Raiders wound up. After 30 days, I mean, but hole said we've got his own account in there. I mean, they were covered in ringworm size sores. Some of them had them all over their bodies. Leeches, they had malaria. They had Barry berry. They were fighting fevers. They were going to miss by the time they finished up the long patrol..
Veterans Chronicles
"marine raiders" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"And but it shows you how and more, you have these split second moments of share start terror. And then the next second, his buddies in the foxhole were just laughing, uncontrollably. Because of the incident that it happened. So Macon was making was something else, getting off making, was harder than getting on, making. And it actually is a story that still today is filled with a lot of controversy and a lot of still some unknowns. Long story short and your listeners were just have to read it through to see what all happened. But to cut to the chase, evidently, a number of young men were left stranded on making. I thought they'd gotten all of them. The two submarines went back to pearl. They had to go silent. So they really couldn't take a good headcount. But about 12 were left on the island. And their fate was really horrific. So these things happened during war and it just the Macon raid, though is talked about a lot of people really have heard a lot of different things about it. Hearing mud holes version and the things that happened was just fascinating. And I cover all of that in the book. It's very well covered in the book, as well as the competing versions of what exactly happened during and afterwards. Let's talk about in our remaining time here, Carol, the two really big parts of the battle of Guadalcanal at the marine raiders were part of there's bloody ridge. And then there's the long patrol. Let's start with the look at bloody ridge, and you talk about the intensity of fighting. And a lot of these different engagements, but I just want to recount one quick paragraph here. You say the attack was furious and vicious, a sudden flash of thousands of rounds of artillery, tracer shells, arching through the dark of night, the crash of mortars screams of.
Veterans Chronicles
"marine raiders" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"I mean, you talk about absolutely giving every last ounce of devotion. And it's true of all the guys you mentioned in this book, but I thought that quote was just really powerful. It really is. And I have to tell you that is one of the favorite stories oral stories that the young marine writers today enjoy listening to. It's quite an it's poignant. But it's also one of the most inspiring stories. I think. And it does, it does give you the sense and the feeling of what these writers were all about. Because I think to a man that's probably how they all felt, you know, internally. They were there a writer kills or is guild. And that was there in mentality. No doubt, no doubt. You also discussed the second raider battalion at make an atoll and we learned more about one of the recurring veterans in this story who is known as mud hole Merrill. This make an atoll is barely a dot in the ocean, but it was seen as a way to possibly learn more Japanese troops away from Guadalcanal if I remember correctly. So briefly discuss the fighting there and what we learned about the Raiders there. And let me just insert right here right quick quickly. The structure that I chose for the book was to show all four battalions through the eyesight of one member from each battalion. So you have a person from a writer from first battalion second battalion third and fourth. The structure is different from any book that's been written on marine raiders. And in second battalion, the young man that you've mentioned, Kenny, mudhole, Merrill. Actually, Jimmy Roosevelt named him one time, because he stumbled over him well, but always taking a drink out of literally a mud hole, and that was how his name came. He was Michael Merritt of the day he died..
Veterans Chronicles
"marine raiders" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"Here on veterans chronicles. This is veterans chronicles. I'm Greg Columbus, honored to be joined today by Carol engel Avery. She is the author most recently of, marine raiders, the true story of the legendary World War II battalions. And Carol much of the Raiders work was focused on Guadalcanal or islands nearby, explained briefly the strategic importance of that island and why the Raiders were called in there to play such critical roles. You know, I suspect. And as I did my research, it confirmed that at the very start after Pearl Harbor was bombed, December 7th, 1941. And as the new year 1942 rolled in, I suspect that the very higher ropes in the military began to look at the South Pacific, look at the Pacific as a whole. To try to decide exactly where we would make our first attempt at a ground landing. Already the Japanese just days after Pearl Harbor began an absolute spread. I mean, Guam fell, white Felder were just seemingly all over everywhere. And I suspect that when they whoever it was that finally decided that Guadalcanal would be the very first place that we would invade, just like Normandy in Europe was for the continent was the first place. Guadalcanal was the first place. And I suspect that there was more than one military leader who looked up and said where the, you know, where the sandhill is that. It probably started scrambling for maps. Because the Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands was a place that you just didn't get there by accident. I mean, it was in the middle of nowhere. One of the little pieces of trivia that I'm just going to throw out to you. The Pacific Ocean has 63 million square miles of water. And if you can imagine the Solomon Islands are like a string of pearls that are sort of strong there down there in the South Pacific. And so it took weeks, you know, just to even get there. And the island fighting was so different from anything that we had ever committed ourselves to in the past, our military had. So there was just a different mindset. It required amphibious landings. The Marine Corps and the marine raiders wound up doing things that were seemingly almost unimaginable in terms of the fighting. Our guys learned very quickly that they were fighting not only a two legged enemy. But they were fighting a jungle enemy as well. The jungle just took such a toll on their bodies as they were trying to fight at that environment. So you had then the invasion of Guadalcanal, August 7th, 1942 exactly 8 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. And that was the beginning of the war in the Pacific. It was quite a fierce fight. And the reason that Guadalcanal became so important was because Guadalcanal had one thing that we desperately wanted to take away from the Japanese and utilize for ourselves and that was an airstrip. And that airstrip that airfield was renamed by our guys, Henderson field. It was actually named after one of the pilots, marine pilots, in fact, at midway. He was one of the first killed. And that decisive naval battle. And so we had to have Henderson field. Because if the Japanese held it, then they could fly all over an Australian was in play for the Japanese..
Veterans Chronicles
"marine raiders" Discussed on Veterans Chronicles
"Chronicles. I'm Greg caramba. Our guest in this edition is Carol engel averette. She is a bestselling author and her new book is marine raiders. The true story of the legendary World War II battalions. We just want to let you know that Carol is appreciative of both theaters of operation in World War II. Her first book on World War II was entitled coffin corner boys, one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi occupied France, which I also highly encourage and Carol. Thanks very much for being with us today. We appreciate it. My pleasure. It is a delight to be with you. So Carol, before there could be marine raiders, the raider units, these battalions had to exist which they did not when Pearl Harbor was attacked. So how and why were these raider battalions created? Well, after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps, the higher ups, the leadership realized that there would be some different dynamics in fighting a war in the Pacific on these islands. And to meet some of those challenges through a series of events, the they decided to create the small commando really. Commando style units. And president Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was much in favor of it, his friend across the pond, Churchill had at that time some wonderful British commandos. So, again, through a series of events, the marine writers were born. The first rate of battalion on February 16th, 1942, second rate of battalion was stood up three days later on February 19th, 1942, and then third and fourth rate of Italian came into existence later in the summer and early fall of 42. And who were they looking for within the Marine Corps population as it existed to be a raider? What set the person apart that they wanted, as opposed to the rest of the marines? Well, first of all, one of the things that you had to do, you actually had to volunteer to be considered to be a writer. And then you sort of went through a series of interviews and some other physical different tests and all, but those interviews were really critical. And one of the things that the leaders of the battalions, the marine rate of battalion said they were not looking for young men who had sort of a false bravado, you know, maybe sort of a pseudo. They even called it pseudo patriotism, really. They were looking for solid, confident, young men who could easily fit into the physicality that would be required..
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"Perimeter that are getting killed and other stuff during the same thing so it's kind of confusing something like put it all together and we have a couple of afghans special forces guys that ran out of our compound in the daylight into the village. It's that's unheard of. We don't even put her hand over the wall. Because you'll they'll start shooting at you really. We definitely don't run out. Yeah if you expose yourself in the daytime at this place. You're done like i used to do. Serial numbers and stuff you know and manage the cmo are and all of the ima tori. And so i have to get these serial numbers on top of the vehicle and stuff. And if i did it even with with remote light sometimes i get shot. A couple potshot savvy. You know I had an armory that was on one side of our cat that was kind of elevated to where they could see from the from certain parts of the green zone and sometimes when i go in there and my unlock it. They'd start pop. she's so it was it was. It was a wild thing but all of that being said we all expected for tax to come from outside because that was the norm so when this one to the time it came from inside we couldn't even figure we couldn't conceive that and when we finally did it was one of the Army guys came over the radio and said hey what are the. Interpreters is saying that one of the afghans in the tower as gone crazy and he needs to get killed. We're like oh my gosh okay. Now we understand going on now and then now we know we have isolated the problem so now we can work the problem so You know we ended up going out and like clearing are way outside of the operations building around to where they said all the afghans were on the back of the building. Like you know doing something. So we went back there to their whole team and they were like you know completely distraught trying to give their weapons and data and all this other stuff long story short three other guys had guns killed in this thing because they were trying to go up into the tower to help attack out or whatever they were doing and this guy was like. Don't come up your kill you. And they're like no way and they start going and you kill them and then the other guy comes up like their captain climbed up on their living space to try to shoot them to try to get a vantage point and as soon as he picked up the shot him in the head so now he's down the first guy that ran up is down and then a third guy tried to go up the tower to get him. He shot him right when he started running the others. Three guys that are like dead killed his own guys. Yeah so then. We ended up finishing getting him taking care of him and then After that that was done. And what was the medical fall off for you. Did you concussed in. Did you have any issues from that. Yeah so loss of consciousness and concussion and just afterwards i felt very delirious kind of like still able to do my job in some a little bit in that situation afterwards and question key people and do different things in separate everyone from their weapons and whatever but i was like goofy and many people had gotten concussion so we got examined by the medic and some of us scott. Flown out medevac but We were back within like two days. So yeah and Also want to just Mentioned in honor. Three fallen raiders. That were killed on this day that year as well in an insider attack. Geez we three four nine not with your team or not with our team. But they're in another team in our company so a matt manoukian. Captain matt manoukian Ryan jetski i know ryan i trained ryan right. Us we've changed it. Yep what a phenomenal guy number. While your brother would remember ryan ryan just always wondered what happened to ryan and sky moat. Som- brian was passing that Insider tack it was this day. So wow I mentioned them. Because they've been on my mind between ryan who was thinking about Delta yet but he ended up going marshek yeah he was so he. I mean he trained. Pete was an stud. Yeah yeah wow yeah. Thanks for being that up. Bless those guys and all operators lahser lives ghanistan. Look what's happening now taleban back. What a waste in my opinion madam. We do what we do boyer's..
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"I just say that. Because that's that's still sticks out to me that you know the actions of the individuals here in the us. Were creating so much trouble for us over there. I don't think they even realize that right. But you can guarantee that in realize of course so all that and that's kind of setting the stage so we've been in in country for four maybe five months at this time so per got in and had some teamates that were wounded. That had already been sent back. We have tons of afghans that had been wounded. And all these different you know. Kinetic just tons of medevac and everything was just like nonstop and then we got and we had had an afghan special forces team with us. That whole time. And they had just transitioned out to get a new team in and so we had challenges with them when we first started but they ended up being some really challenging missions with us and that we had to and so we we worked it out with them and we really like we grew. We became a team. The next crew that just came in the first crew looked like it and they acted sometimes like kind of cartoonish. Where they're like we don't wanna go on mission like in their in their underwear. These next guys. It came there like force. Recon my boom long beards. All gears ready to go like just locked in and they're and they're like. Hey i'm the i'm responsible for training for the afghan forces and the local police house my job right and so i'm like hey can you guys help support and with training we use we work with you to train the afghan local police. We can run like they took it over know. And i'm so i'm like wow. These guys are next level. You know like other stuff and with those guys. We don't vet them. We get him handed to us Right so they're already vetted from higher and and for my afghan or us by us. Nasty so You they've made it through all the different ranks of the afghan military from like being in the army to or to being in the rangers to being in this to go into the special operations training to now there s You know and so. They've had so many vetting so when they get to us we. We monitor them. But we're not. We're not betting to see if they're good or bad we were yeah they should be good because man is giving them so like five days en to this. It's during the hottest time of the year. You know a also a time where the team was fat. The afghans are fasting. And they're doing ramadan ramadan work. And so you know there's situations that are like you know when it's one hundred thirty or one hundred and twenty degrees in your fasting but you know there's only a couple like there's a small amount of us that live here. Sofa truck comes. That's the monthly shipment of water. We need everybody to help. Get it off you know and so there were things like that whereas like hey we need everyone and then there were fasting and they got upset or whatever and this miss a mess but long story short was an insider attack and it was a nine years ago on the thirteenth so three days from now on august thirteenth. Two thousand twelve I got woken up and At like seven an by someone that was on security told me that i had an afghan outside at the gate. That wanted to talk with me. Grab my interpreter. We went out and Just something real real silly or whatever. So you know. I i dealt with it. And then the villager left. I came in. I sat down at a picnic table and start eating cereal and I have like i'm sitting there. I'm in board shorts. A have a glock on my board shorts. I have like a tank top on no body armor no no body armor nothin and and my glasses. My sunglasses were on top of my head right so they weren't. They weren't covering my eyes. And i had a four wheeler right next to me Next to my picnic table. And so i was eating and then all of a sudden it just went boom and i was on the ground and i was like delirious a little bit and i thought that the four wheeler had exploded out of nowhere and then all of a sudden another explosion these mortars or rockets. Rpg's yeah so this guy this afghan special forces guy. that's in the tower. That's like twenty five feet right here. He's in there and he just he's he's aiming at you. He's aiming at me and he made up his mind that morning that he's this is this is his last stand right so there was an altercation the night before that we didn't know about inside of the within their team then his loyalties were with whoever decided against I see yeah so he went. He was against his own team and us interesting and so The way that it played out was like you know. I ended up getting blown like knocked unconscious. He was just re- attacking and shooting like reloading and shooting reloading at shooting so there was over twelve. Rpg's that he ended up getting off But not all of them were at me in that kill zone asking say he's not a very good because obviously but at least at least four of them were in the zone with me. Are you know. And so i ended up being able to like i remember laying on the after after being black dow mike holding my eyes. Because i i could feel my glasses. Were here and i held my eyes open like this and i couldn't see and i was like i thought i was blinded and i started kind like panicking a little bit having like disparity i'm thinking about just like worse things and then all of a sudden life focus it was able to see and then just to my right. There's the interpreter living space saw like rollover. I crawl in there. And i and i get in there and there's two interpreters there just holding hands and going big problem yet. I gotta get outta here. This is not helping anything you know. I gotta get to somewhere with decisions. There's something can be done communication. So i crawled out and my ran out in got into the operation center but the operation centers right underneath where this guy shooting. Rpg's like literally. I walked right. Underneath iran right underneath them in here and he was probably reloading. Because as soon as i got in there he hit. He hit the operation center with the first one bloom. And it's just a little like dugout You know just a little just a bunker with a bunch of sandbags on it. and whatever else. And that's where we are communicating tour of to the main team. Our team that was at the other side. Could they hear you. could they hear it. I'm sure yeah someone's going on. Yeah they but we thought we were locked in with mortars We thought we were locked in the they had mortars locked in and it was a team that had locked in and that they were hitting direct hits And we were so scared like dude. We still like. I was thinking in my head like we still have four months of deployment or something you know if they've got us locked in so you didn't know the guy was in the talent. No i see and and that was honestly my biggest takeaway from the whole thing and all of the research case study type work that i've done with other insider attacks looking into him. It's that it was missed by everybody that this was coming from inside of our own security bubble interesting and you're all really looking outside the wire for the yes actors a human mind something like it. Preconceived that this is safe and that it's not coming from this or how that works in a failure of imagination talked about nine eleven. Yeah yeah because you don't expect that israel okay. So how'd you guys get out of that so We are in their in with a couple of my teammates. And we're communicating with other team and there's other things going down. There's other taliban that are you know right..
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"As so what was operating and so calm like earned them are cycling. And where did you operate in and tell. Let's talk about that experience in afghanistan. yeah so you know getting in. I was A new i just coming out of individual training course and selection. You know we were the first ones to go through. It so when we got her unit. I got station at first raider battalion. A lot of the older guys that were legit that had the combat experience that we're the leaders none of zero the headmaster measurements and one of those guys were from the so calm debt. Yes and then they went directly in there from recon right program and legends amazing and really like i. I can't say enough about the recon community in the force recon community and how marsk was built off the backs of those guys than succeeded in the pilot program and what it set up for us but then even going back to the world. War two marine raiders and the lineage. That those guys are just absolutely fee noms and the culture that they said is like second to none so what it was like operating was coming into that as like you know high sense of urgency to perform and so that unlocked a lot of flow state soon in the shooting package. And this and this because you know all these guys that have done fifty shooting packages or whatever. There's you know. They've got every story and they've done all this stuff and it's like. Hey i have to show up and i have to like for for the listener listeners. Parlance that shooting package. Basically of course Let us do the course. You might do the same course five or six times in your career right and it's just like refresher training. The training has a crawl walk. Run kind of battle rhythm to it right. I'm done with the quote unquote package. Weather's three weeks or six weeks. You're you're running and gun in pretty hard. Yeah but then you go do it over again on your next for your next year. Whatever and so you just keep on refining those skills. Yeah it's cool. Yeah and i mean you know even like you know when you're not when you're just starting out with that level of shooting and all that to have like as a new guy having all your magazines loaded a certain way and be ready for the next drill and all that stuff and then might be managing all your responsibilities in the team and all the stuff that builds that like builds a lot of capacity for you expand your plate and what what's possible for you and what you can accomplish as an individual and then you can bring to your team so it was. It was crucial And so i was. We had very few new is in our company and in our team was just a couple of us and so We had amazing like stan. Like example That was in front of us from across the board from all teams. And we were in charlie company and i M saab at the time now. Is i ready to retire. And i marine special operations battalion and we were training prepping to go to afghanistan and they had been going afghan to helmet afghanistan for the last couple of rotations. So they're very savvy and in their experience that they had had thus far and how that was different from iraq. And what was the mission that you guys had over there. We were doing. Vso village stability operations was what our team did And so We were working on stability development and governance in a certain area of helmand afghanistan. That just happened to be an enemy village and so We had very few. You know it's all about be in the village or outside or it was in the village in the bill. Yeah so you were camped in enemy village. Yes for seven months only yeah. We had two sites so most of our team was that the main team site and then me and a couple other operators were a logistics hub with the afghan special forces team and an army infantry squad and whatever contractors and other cats and dogs were there but there was one medic there there was like couple operators and me and the and we were in charge of that site then our team that had most of the hitters was at the other side interests and Why did you put your forces like that. Two positions are better than one especially there and then we have to g. bosses cameras that are up and that kept the enemy like back And when we towards the end we ended up folding in one site and we folded the camera and then we moved to everyone in the last couple of weeks and literally that first day that we brought that down. They came in on a slate. No kidding so those because you had snipers out there. So the camera can pick up the movement. I see interesting. Is that where you had your incident. Yes okay yeah like you started. Tell me about that before we started. Let's talk about that. Yeah so Nine years ago this week Two days for now well. That was the If you remember that was the peak of green-on-blue insider attacks in afghanistan was that year two thousand twelve and their letter attack is when these are mostly afghan who were supported and trained by the us supposed to be working alongside attacked the us soldier or unit. Right that's horrible. Yeah and so There was a lot of Things that were happening. You know obviously there at the time but then also back here that were that were creating a lot of friction for us. So there was a priest and florida that burned a koran. You know and then there was a a cartoon video that came out about the prophet muhammed being all this funny stuff. And so those things there's second and third order effects to those acts that people were doing back here and literally like the guys that were in the village. Isn't it the same video that that was blamed on the benghazi attack. I believe so. Yeah but those things matter and they do and they had huge repercussions for us and we felt like that Even like villages that we would drive through before that were friendly. Now we're driving through and it's like a whole different environment. No kidding and so you know..
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"Became a well-versed in risk management and operational risk management which we use all of that. Yeah to know every day but before you got out and started the water. Work that you're doing now you were you. Went into the marine raiders. Actually got into mark. Yes and so What was that experience like. Good bad and the ugly. Yeah i've actually never interviewed a marine interviewed a types and special forces guys. Well one. yeah no it's awesome. Thanks for doing it. You know it's a it's it was like a felt like a startup. you know early days. Two thousand eight so coming in in two thousand nine and then at itc marsa showroom until seven. I think right. Yeah because so come. That happened in two thousand four to continue to kind of figure things out in to the nine so you were really early. Yes i'm coming in like. I felt like the second wave You know like there's already there's already a foothold right at nyc momentum and so we come in but there's still not a lot of like systems and organization these specific things that take time to develop and so it was doing more with less hated that a lot when i was in the military but i'm so appreciative of it 'cause it breeds innovation And if you have everything to be complacent right and so You know we would always get like Upset whenever we go to guam or something and we see like you know we have these little lockers like this but the seals have a huge you know. And that's not fair like hey dude. We're like four years old. When i was in the teams it was a little bit more further. Along in terms of our timeline but man we did not have all the gear. They have not you know and we had to make do and use rigors tape and bubble gum. You know fix things. Yeah and then it started to really flow especially on nine eleven after that just spigots opened up for so come. Yeah so you know getting in like Getting into selection selection was like such a different experience from everything that i experienced in the marine corps. So far. and you're you're kind of on your own for you know roughly thirty days and it's it's zero talk all action And i was like yes. I loved it and i'm a little bit introverted so i can go by myself and mike. That's actually stuff. Yeah and i like that. You know being alone operator. Sometimes i like being in a team as well. But i like doing that. So i love selection it was ran so professionally and and just you know it was a good starting point and then i thought that you know that that was like the the kicker and then i got to. It and that's the individual training course. Which is you know modeled. It's like their buds right. And so that was like we got there and you know we had like one hundred people everybody pass election. So we're like. Oh yeah you know maybe there will be a couple of people that drop out of this but for the most part raw gonna make it through you know and it's like no. We graduated with twelve the original people that started and it was like that was a that was still when they were figuring out the schoolhouse so they made a huge changes after that class because there wasn't a lot of roi return on investment firm. Yeah that's a little bit high attrition but it's about what the seals to this day. Have i know you know no matter what they do. They can't fix the attrition. They've been able to nudge it up by about five percent. Yeah my class. One hundred eighty five nineteen graduate. That's pretty typical. He ended up with some great operators. But you have to. You know that there's some great operators have just. Some stupid thing happened right. Semi structured marked him down because he was having a bad day. The instructor was having day so a lot of good people get get passed by unfortunately but it is what it is..
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"If i ever talk about blood sugar. A lot of people to now. Because they think it's only relevant people overweight or with type two diabetes. But let me tell you. A blood. Sugar is a topic. Everyone needs to understand. Better one of the key things for optima health is to have balanced blood sugar. What happens when eat that donut. While your pancreas leases insulin which tells your body. There's plenty of energy to go round some. Now's the time to store fat. But here's the thing doesn't matter whether you eat a donut drinking glass. Oj or have an alcoholic beverages. Low fiber processed carbohydrates from crackers. Chips cookies juice all that stuff. Have a similar effect on your blood. Sugar spikes it when you take in a lot of carbs quickly without much fiber fat to slow down the absorption experienced what we call a sugar crash which leads to low energy brain fog weight gain due to the addictive nature of sugar. Once your body brings that sugar level back down than a craving kicks in and forgive into that craving starts at cycle all over again. Betton that you know that. So i hope you can see how important is to maintain your healthy blood. Sugar question is how do you do it well. One way is to obviously reduce your intake of those processed carbohydrates. Make sure you eat a lot of fat protein and fiber and greens at most meals. But we're not perfect. We all cheat sometimes and we have our unhealthy habits here and there so it makes sense to have a way to maintain healthy blood sugar day in and day out even if you have an off day off moment. Well.
The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Unbeatable Mind Podcast with Mark Divine
"I challenge my guest. Today is prime hall. By the way. I love that name primes a Human formats enthusiasts an expert. He is a former marine raider. Right so. I have a deep connection with marine raiders at refund. The talk about and he also was of water combat or water survival instructor for the marines. He's trained trained thousands of marines in water confidence. Which is he's parlayed into a new career using water in his fitness called deep fitness as well as a new sport called the underwater torpedo league. And i think that's we used to play underwater hockey in the in the seals. And they're they're connected right they have. They have a common heritage prime. Thanks for coming up and you're here in person at carlsbad office do you. Yes hundred percent. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here. Yeah well it's great to have you here or love brothers when we come up and we can talk shop and share horror stories hundred share healing stories. Because there's a lot of vets who listen to this podcast and a lot of people who are who care about vets who gone through struggles in healing and i think it's cool that you You kind of find your way through that. And now you help others through your training but also through your inspirational works out of that because sir you know prime always like to start out first off. How did you get that name. Prime like super cool again was your paramore repairs thinking. Yeah everybody always asks me that and then it says is it like is it like you know optimist primis. Yeah let's get with optimus right. But i i Randomly had an uncle prime on my dad's side of the family. Okay and that was his first name. That was first name. Yeah and so And also i had a prime on my mom's side as well and one of them was spelled with an i one of them so with a lie And so i ended up getting the the i and so Prime shift for the life that you had richard akron hunter. I tell me about your the influences that led you into the marine corps is always an interesting story to me like. How did you end up the marines. And why the marines. Yeah so i started out in south texas and grew up in corpus christi and I had my mom my dad. My sister and i ran into some challenges that built a lot of resiliency for me early on and While the first one was really. I fractured my skull. When seven act. And so i fell off my roof It was just a freak thing. My mom walked outside. And i was like doing my thing on the on the roof and she's like stop. Oh and then. I was like oh my god. She's literally right. Scared you see manifest. She saw it landed on my head and blacked out got rushed to the er. I didn't have any internal bleeding thankfully but my whole head was mush like it wasn't hard structure anymore and so i had a year of recovery Where i had to sit out from p. e. and and we're gonna go he'll had yet all the concussion and so you know that that kind of had a lasting impact on me i still remember sitting out and feeling like you know different. And then i remember. I couldn't go underwater. That was one of the things like can't do anything and so now it's kind of that's still like. I still wanna be underwater. Because i couldn't be underwater interesting. You know when. I was seven and this is fascinating. How such a formative experience can literally charter trajectory of your life. And and how that synchronicity you know plays in and it's like wow it's so so that and then probably you know right after recovering from that. We moved into a new neighborhood. And when we moved into that I had a peeping. Tom like a stalker. Peeing on guy that was you know creeping me out and in my window and doing these different things and that was right when caller id had came out. saw dealing with that at night. A nine man terrifying. Yeah and so. I was telling my parents. Are you know trying. And they weren't believing me 'cause they haven't caught him yet and this went on for a few years and then they finally ended up catching them. Could god And then nothing ever heard of that before. I mean i've heard of it happening. But i've never met anyone that it made me so i lived in my closet. I was very independent. Know i went through a lot dealing with this guy that was always there. Yeah i was. I created survival mechanisms for myself back then could work through it but it also kind of it. It was challenging for me. Because i created a huge gap with my parents but so anyway my parents caught him and they ended up getting divorced soon after. And then my mom moved away and my dad. I moved in with my dad into a new like apartment or condo and then he moved out so i ended up living by myself at a young age lured prime helpful year cow and then But my by my grandparents were always phenomenal too. So i had these grandparents that were like my parents throughout my whole life and they took me on trips every summer when i was growing up and they always like mentor. Me and it's about. How will you when you're living by yourself. Thirteen fourteen years old. Well how are you making ends. Were you getting food. Very street savvy and you know Creative with how. I did it so i would eat it school you know For lunch or whatever school everyday yep patterns. Yep got my way to school I got hardship license. When i was like fifteen for eight when i turned fifteen so i had a car when i was fourteen and And so yeah and not a nice one. But i had transportation because i had to get around to take care of myself. So so what happens. You just like walk into the dmv and say. I don't have any parents need a car for snowshoe services what happens. There was a kind of loophole. Where if you do your driver's ed in advance and you qualify for hardship license like me. I qualified because i didn't have like a lot of my parents were gone or this or this or this. I need to be able to take myself to school. And so i- qualified. And then i had all my paperwork met and they gave me the license. It was no attempt to get you into a foster home or anything like that yes That's how i got into. The marine corps is that My grandparents came one of those summers to take me on a summer vacation and they came to my apartment. And i saw that i was living by myself and they were like acceptable. Yeah and so. They offered to send me to military boarding school at a marine military academy in in harlingen texas. And so i went on tour. And you know it's like i think at the time even it was like twenty thousand a year for them to send me there so i went from no security line limited security and mike kind of no rules and then a scary scary situation for me.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"marine raiders" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"They respond to what the media tells them and they aligned with it and this is the unfortunate tragedy. What's going on with america out of the west. Bush has left the more the people claim to be in the centre but actually have no fixed. World compass go to the left with them General mark milley made some comments about the riot on january six that were so incendiary I've never been disgusted in the way. I was disgusted by listening to him. What do you think is future is in the military From here on in future. I strongly suspect as a scapegoat. There's already talk about making him. The scapegoats of ghanistan bottom line is this guy that everything could to keep a job under a future democrat administration and it might not be enough which would be kind of adjust. Award the questions whether you're out to retire with dignity. Make way for brown with air force chief of staff or weather. Humiliatingly forced to resign To atone for violence mistake you know that is pretty much arm. It is amazing to me. Though that these people. I mean the idea of greatness of nobility has effectively vanished among our cultural leaders. The idea of Taking a bullet for your team doing the right thing at a great cost profiles in courage. it strikes me that these men don't think that way they really have sold their souls effectively for a mess of pottage I believe that's from the old testament and It's kind of this other birthright for mess of pottage. And it's just it's astonishing these. Are the men leading us today. Twenty seconds final. Word if you would. There's a very striking contrast right now. Between a marine raider received a navy cross for a six hour firefight with isis. In which you try and save two of his buddies and success. We're seeing the french. Soldiers repeatedly wounded to be forcibly evacuated. The contrast between the grass these see in the men in the field to not be greater and we owed to those men in the field to.
Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"marine raiders" Discussed on Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"On today's broadcast. We look back at my conversations with Gold Star families in West Michigan about their son's making the ultimate sacrifice for the United States of America. Public names in Studio Carl Price and Ruth Price. They are the parents of Gunnery Sergeant Daniel J. Price of Marine Raider who was killed Serving his country made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan. July 29th, 2000 and 12 just a week or so. Prior to Navy seal, David Waterson, also from West Michigan and East County before he lost his life in the canyon in Afghanistan. So the knock on the door? I've talked to some gold star family members. Uh, You know what it is when you see the car? Pull up, Ruth. I know what inspired you to write the book, No stray bullets, the making of American hero which you can get. Amazon dot com. We'll tell you about some locations here in West Michigan. But tell me about July 29 through 2000 and 12. Yeah, Today. You never forget, Um We were. It was a Sunday afternoon. It was about 2 45. Gorgeous day We were resting and got to the front doorbell rang. Nobody ever goes to the front door. I sent Carl to answer it. I said you go see, see who's here? Thought it might be a neighbor or something. Right? Well, somebody with car trouble or, you know somebody who had who knows so But I've said you just go. So he went and he didn't even make it all the way to the door. Maybe halfway. He says, Ruth, you better come here. And I knew something wasn't right. But I had no idea. So as I rounded the corner and saw Um, the front door and the three Marines in their uniforms standing there. I knew, you know, um Dan had always told us that they won't come if I'm wounded. If you see three guys on the step, he says, I'm gone. Because if it doesn't matter how seriously they're wounded, how close to death they are in an injury. Um they will Call. They won't come. Your son told you that. He told us that before time. Yep. He said if if they come to the door, he says, I'm gone. And so you just know, And then they still are required to to make the statement. It's um, you know, they said, are you Carl? Are you Daniel Price's father? They ask Carol and he said, Yes, I am. And, um, yeah, He just said, sit down. He just said what he said. Sit down, He told you said Yeah, and he just bent down by us, And he said, um From the on behalf of the president of the United States and the commandant of the Marine Corps. We regret to inform you that your son, Daniel J. Price, was killed this morning in Afghanistan. It was the same day. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, It's not like it's not like back in the day where some of the people were receiving letters after they found out their kids were killed. You know that. World War two. They find out they could find out months later that their son was killed or even in Vietnam. They found out in first they started finding out from there by telegrams and No, but they came right to our door. And I'll never forget that the big Marine standing there at the door with his, uh Steely Eyes. I mean, he He I found out afterwards when I talked were assigned a casualty officer and he was along with them also, and I talked to him and he says, Yeah, he says, he just kind of groaned all the way to your house. That he really didn't want to do this. You know, he sat down the road, They drove by her house a couple of times to see if we were home. And then they sat down the road a little while because Dan is was married and his wife is in California, and they told us both at exactly the same time. When she came home from church, which is three hours after us They? They were on the phone with each other and said, Yes, she's home. So now is the time so they They came and told us both at the exact same time. That her husband was gone and our son was gone. And afterwards you find out there's a police officer that was also sitting down the road because sometimes You don't ever know how family is going to react. You know they could. There could be, uh, a physical altercation there. They're mad, right man in the country mattered the world where a heart attack or You know, or if they have guns in the house if they get angry, you know, and, uh So It was. Yeah, the hardest day of my life when you have to go after that, and then go and tell his sister and tell his brother Go to our pastor and tell him Go to his grandpa and grandma on one side. Go to his grandma on the other side, and then Yeah, go and tell them Can you imagine being a casually officer and that's your assigned one. That's your job? Yeah, that's he didn't have to do. He didn't have too many of those, but they were like, um, he had done. Justin Hansen from Traverse City was killed two weeks before Dan and so the same. It was a different casualty officer, but it was the same. Office of Marines that, um, was involved in in that, um, events. So, um, yeah, it was. It's not like they do it all the time. That's not their full time job. But yet it does happen and To get pretty immersed in the family and in the emotions. So from that moment when they tell you that Marine Raider Gunnery Sergeant Daniel J. Price had died. Serving his country in Afghanistan. Uh, when do you find out exactly? How he died. Do you ever is that.
Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"marine raiders" Discussed on Sports Talk 1050 WTKA
"Carl and Ruth Price from the beautiful city of Holland. They join us in studio to talk about their son, the late Daniel J. Price, Gunnery Sergeant Marine Raider and Ruth. Thank you for driving, and I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having us and Carl. We talked before. Yes, we sure have. Carl delivered one of the best calls I've ever had. On the huge radio network. It was fantastic with his opinion and also connecting it to what he Looked at when he saw the flag in regards to his son, who died, making the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Carlin Ruth. Good to have you in studio and what was the most touching thing going through everything connected to your son? That somebody from the military told you I'm sure you heard a lot of the funeral and after he had passed away, but something you discovered that really made you a proud mom. So many things. I guess the one big thing that stuck out to me was when I received the his military records. Um and I had access to all of his performance reviews. Um, and so I had probably three or four Well, probably more like six or seven years worth of performance reviews. Indifferent deployments in different billets that he had served, and throughout them all, it was promote ahead of his peers performs above and beyond his experience, and, um Um, level, you know, And so it was just I learned so much about Dan through those, but you didn't know that I didn't know And it was stuff that he maybe had told us, but he always said everything in such an understated way. That we had no idea of the magnitude of what he was doing. He was a true American serving his country serving his family, and you talk about your faith and inspiring you to write the book. Ruth Price is a mother. Gunnery Sergent Daniel J. Price, who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in Afghanistan. He was a Marine Raider special forces right, so he had worked his way up through the Marine process. Right. Everybody knows who the Navy seals are. Marine Raider is is basically the same. Papers of their special life. Special forces. Yeah, it's just some of the best of the nasty up. Well, what inspired your son to join the military and service country? There's a lot of different things. I think that played into that there were. I think the attack on the World Trade Center was huge. He was a junior in high school at the time, and he was so angry. That they would attack civilians on our own turf on DSA that made him angry, and he I think that was a huge motivation to join, and he looked at different different branches of the military. But Decided that if he didn't make special forces, he wanted to be in the Marines because he most likely would see combat and travel the world anyway. And then he probably didn't realize that there was a I feel like you in another Marines because I'd never heard of the Raiders there. I'd never heard of that until I looked at your book. He originally joined Recon, the Marine Recon Battalion and That also a special forces but then in 2000 and no gonna press my memory here, 2000? Yeah, 2000, actually, six. I think Um, the mire sock Marine Special Operations Command was, um Set up on DSA. He didn't join it right away. It was 2008 before he actually joined up with them. He wanted to give it a few years. Make sure that they were gonna continue be a quality organization, a division of the Marine Corps and so Yeah. Then he joined. So originally was Maher Sack and then in 2014, they took over the name of Marine Raiders, which is a throwback to the World War Two Raiders. Who were the special ops in the in World War to be joined to do four years and you know, maybe good money for education, Or did he join to be a career military man? I really don't know if he He went in with an open mind to, um To be in for and to see how it was going to go. Believe and Once he got in, and even in boot camp, he excelled and was promoted and group in boot camp and then was in one of the school infantry and he was on automatic. Try out for Marine Re Kon, So he went right from boot camp. Basically two Marine reconnaissance and Started deploying. So his parents when your child is inspired as a junior in high school where Daniel go to school, we home schooled homeschooled. All right, So Daniel Daniel's a junior in high school, and he's inspired to wanna go service country. Was probably that proud side. Of two parents looking at their son who's inspired and cares about his country, but also worried when he finally made that decision to join the military that that knock on the door could happen one day, right, very mixed feelings. It's a long ways from the fireman, Western Michigan. Um And so, yeah, but, you know, making that decision in his junior year and being home schooled. We took his senior year and worked really hard at preparing him. Um, he worked hard physically. Started running to work with his work boots on so that he would be prepared to run running to work with his work boots on how far was it was about a half a mile, but work was on a farm, so he's wearing like farm boots and S Oh, yeah. That was just to prepare himself for working, um, for running in combat boots. Um, so he worked on the physical part and I as his home school teacher. Worked on emotional, spiritual, psychological just kind of to prepare him and because when they leave for the military like that, it Z. You raise your Children to be independent, but it's a very abrupt independence. And yes, so we we took that senior year and works really hard at getting him ready. Well, what type of kid into that young man before he joined the Marines, Carl and Ruth Price by the way in studio parents. Of the late Daniel J. Price of Gunnery Sergeant Marine Raider..
PBS NewsHour
U.S. Navy SEAL spared jail but demoted after war crimes trial
"Special operations chief Edward Gallagher was found not guilty yesterday of murdering a suspected ISIS prisoner in Iraq the decorated navy seal had been accused of stabbing the wounded teenage captive back in twenty seventeen William Branham has the story that's right Judy in addition to being found innocent on the first degree murder charge cheap Gallagher was also found not guilty of attempted murder of Iraqi civilians and of obstruction of justice the only thing he was convicted of was posing in a photo with the dead captives body for that he was demoted one rank he will serve no further jail time late last month this trial took a dramatic turn when one of the prosecution's witnesses navy seal Corey Scott testified that after he saw Gallagher stab the teenager Scott killed the captive by plugging his breathing tube Scott claimed it was an act of mercy Gallagher always maintained his innocence and on fox news this morning flanked by his wife and lawyer he reiterated his view that it was a group of disgruntled fellow seals who wanted to frame him I just wanna make make clear that this this small group of sales that decided to concoct this story in no way shape or form represent Nixon to the community that I've you know loved and gave my soul to for more on this case I am joined by Steve Walsh he's been following the story for keeping B. S. public radio in San Diego and he was there for the verdict and sentencing today Steve Walsh thank you very much for being here you've been following this trial all along with your sense that this verdict was a surprise it was a surprise in the sense that yesterday when the verdict came out and he was acquitted of the six of the seven charges and all and all six were the most serious charges there was a great deal of jubilation Gallagher was hunt was hugging his wife they were very celebratory as so there was a a feeling to this today that maybe Gallagher would serve no jail time at all these wouldn't get a sentence of any jail time but on this last charge the least serious of the seven charges the jury decided to give him the maximum sentence which is in this for months in jail and they reduce two men rank from a chief petty officer to a petty officer first class that's going to have implications on the Gallaghers of retirement in fact we were expecting Gallagher to come out and talk to us after the after the sentencing and in but instead he and his wife got in the car and they drove away Gallagher was originally accused by fellow seal members members of his own platoon which in and of itself is sort of odd given that sort of historically tight knit nature of the sea organization they said that he is one up in a sniper tower and Sean and civilians several of them said that they saw him stab this alleged captive ISIS prisoner how did how did Gallagher's team robot those witnesses well the Gallaghers team said that essentially bays trade this as an investigation that was out of control that the turnout targeted Gallagher from the very beginning the lead investigator for naval investigations Joe war Pinsky he'd only been with NCIS for two and a half years before he got this incredibly high profile war crimes case the the also portrayed these seals in Gallagher's platoon Gallagher is is forty years old now is it in the rest of his platoon was much younger yeah I'm on the stand his attorney said call them in title the young seals so in addition to having those seals who I I guess their their testimony was simply not believed by the jury there was also this piece of evidence of texts that Gallagher had sent to a fellow seal apparently he sent a photograph of the captives body and I want to read what these texts say one of them said I've got a cool story for you when I get back I've got my knife skills on another text said good story behind this got him with my hunting knife how did the defense team robot that bit of evidence well I honestly they didn't I mean if you think about this this is something that happened in Iraq in two thousand seventeen they have nobody in this case very little forensic evidence but the one thing that they did have were these photographs that Gallagher sent out to people in the United States and other members of the platoon with him posing with the knife up to the dead detain me so in the end that was what he was convicted of but I guess the the evidence citing a for Gallagher has a tax that says I can't wait to tell you the story about this I got right with my knife how did Gallagher's team push that offer to they just not address that will be addressed in the sense of big said that this was dark humor they also have other tax where he he threatens to kill his his platoon yeah he he turned to the jury of all members of the military marines in a Cup and one seal as a matter of fact and said who among us has had not had their commander threatened to kill them at one point or another and lastly there was this this piece of us sort of a bomb shell development where one of the prosecution's main witness as this medic who was there says after he saw Gallagher stab the captive it was he the medic who then kill the the captive not Gallagher I mean that's going to do something here case if they if your your key witness sort of says actually the the guy you think killed it didn't do it I did it it exactly this was a prosecution witness not a bit and so on cross examination that's when the defense brought this up it played into their overall narrative that this was a sloppy investigation they didn't ask the right questions to the right people at the right time of course there were some conflicting testimony I one other marine raider who was there also said that he saw no stab wounds on the dead body Leslie was we did we know that Gallagher's convicted of this one charge of posing with the photograph and what is next for chief Gallagher well that's the way it works in military court this will go to the convening authority for final approval of this sentence and then I his attorneys seem pretty eager to appeal this decision they don't want this sentence of confinement on his record if they can possibly avoid it so we probably won't see the final outcome for a while in the meantime he'd already served eight months in the brig that was basically good time so he served none of this four month sentence so he was able to drive off right after the right after his case was over
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Military investigating death of U.S. contractor in Iraq
"Investigating the death of a US contract. You're working with marines. Northern Iraq the Lockheed Martin worker died in Germany last week found in his barracks with severe head wounds and CIs wants to interrogate to marine raiders in a navy Corman to determine whether a New Year's day fight was responsible for the man's death. And this is