A Combat Story About The Battle of Fallujah and The DEADLIEST War in Iraq
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2023
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This captivating mashup portrays the deadliest war in Iraq, known as the Battle of Fallujah. It seamlessly intertwines three compelling stories from three separate SRS episodes, showcasing the collision of these powerful moments and experiences. We eagerly await your valuable feedback on this Intense mashup. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
Episodes referenced:
Shawn Ryan Show Ep. 061 Tyler Grey: • Tyler Grey - Delta For...
Shawn Ryan Show Ep. 034 Cody Alford: • Cody Alford - Marine R...
Shawn Ryan Show Ep. 029 Erik Prince: • Erik Prince - The Rise...
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Have you seen all 3 episodes in this mashup?
Yes, they were great. Would be awesome to see those 3 together in a future episode.
roger that
Damn what a good edit. SRS and Team, awesome job 👏
Yes, indeed. In fact, as I was just watching the Tyler Grey episode I was thinking "damn, it'd be cool if someone cut the sections of this episode and mashed it up with Cody Alford and Erik Prince's Fallujah stories"...about 10 minutes later I see the notification for this. Outstanding work reading my mind Shawn. 😆
No. I watched Cody, and am currently watching Tyler Grey. I'll have to watch the Black Water one. My wife and I drink coffee in the morning and watch your show together. Keep up the good work!
This show has kept a pistol out of my mouth more times than I can count. Multiple deployments and endless nightmares, hearing this show keeps me grounded and gives me hope for a future. Thank you so much Shawn, and everyone who is a guest on this show.
Keep it up man, 1 day at a time
My friend, I’m glad you found us. Never stop believing in yourself. You’re worth it.
Find a new mission to pour yourself into. Be it Family, new skill, etc. Task and Purpose. Good luck.
JPVPointier
I know how you feel but check this out, if you need to talk to someone feel comfortable to count me on your team.
You are loved and value by many.
Just listen to this stories it just makes me feel so sad for the one who died and for the sick one too.
Stay strong 💪
Jesus loves you.
I'm a retired Marine and the discussion at the end about how the Marines are given the shittiest equipment to get the job done is spot on. We had a saying...."We have done so much with so little for so long we have learned how to do anything forever with nothing". We learned to wear it as a a badge of honor but I always wished it would get better.
Same for us back in 1972. Most of our 782 gear was so old. We got called out in Oct. 1973 To the Israel/ Syria war. Just to get our jeeps and mules ready, we had to do midnight raids on other units motor pools. It's sad but we keep marching forward. Semper Fi brother.
That's ridiculous. I've often complained about simple factory jobs being irresponsible by making production workers use old crappy broken tools. I can't believe they'd have the same attitude at the government level for something as serious as combat. Especially when they absolutely have the budget to do better. The evil is staggering.
@@godwarrior3403 there are so many awards for doing more with less. Every officer and NCO gets an annual review and being "efficient" is a "bullet" in that review. Do more with less, til you can do everything with nothing...
If you dont like the gear go for selection for top tier operators who get the good gear because they get the job done. They lose men all the time and dont cry foul over gear.
@@matthewmorrone883That’s stupid. This is a video of a tier one guy from his own mouth complaining that Marines weren’t given the gear they needed and our leadership is historically using it as a D measuring tool. You can’t say “We are paying you and equipping you to do a job that has the worst case scenario of capture, torture or death of all varieties and then say “If you want better equipment, go for selection.” We’re giving away money to other countries. Just giving it away and supplying them and supplying insurgent forces, stability operations etc. The least you can do is give proper, modern equipment to such a small branch that so much is asked of. And thank god it seems things are changing. 03 guys are getting PVS 31’s, peltors, we have fully automatic weapons now, ops core helmets, hopefully better comms, better plotting boards, better gear that isn’t old or broken. The Marine Infantry has the capability of doing so much more and the DoD could spread load a lot of it’s plate to these guys and these guys are all for it and they perform well enough to succeed.
The Special Forces guy said it best- the Marines upper management are always trying to show everyone how the marines can make things work with out anything instead of giving them the necessary equipment to do their job.
Special operation forces
Sounds like they’ve been taking lessons from the British army!
So dumb.
Those are some tough dudes for dealing with that shit.
Out of all my deployments, Fallujah is the one that I will never forget, and I think a part of me will always be there. The Marine Corps birthday, Veterans Day, and a couple of other days, all have different meanings to me now. November I don't really think about days, I remember names, Perez, Figueroa, Norwood, Hanks, Mcleese, Bryan, Strader, Wood, Bowling, and the rest.
I was in Fallujah for Phantom Fury with 3rd Battalion 5th Marines. The names I will never forget from that deployment are SSGT Ramirez and CPL Heredia. Damn good Marines and upstanding human beings too.
Do you think people shouldn't defend their country from invaders who came to kill their women and children?
Thank both of you for yalls service
@@johnQadams107 Semper Fi brother, I remember you all for sure. Man I know for me, November took on a totally different meaning for me after that.
@@colehogeland4049 shoot no reason to thank me for my service, I made it home, where men alot whole lot better then myself didn't, those are the ones that deserve the thank you, but I appreciate that for sure my brother.
At the end, when Tyler described Marine commanders approaching a mission like “we’ll show you our Marines don’t need all that support”…that is the USMC in a nutshell. Every war, all the time. It’s like they try to create MOH scenarios. Makes for great stories when you’re old. If you get to be old…😢
Not even, most combat vets don’t go around telling their combat experiences.
@@alsenior06 in closed circles, we do. Even though this is for the masses, it’s 2 combat vets in a room talking shop. Holding that shit in is what kills people.
@@bittnerbs agreed
@@alsenior06 . Combat vets talk about our experiences with other combat vets. Only those that were there with you can truly understand what you went through...The heat, the adrenaline, the fear, the rage, the sorrow of losing friends........
@@patrickbrinkmeier1858 attention to detail. I already agreed with that comment.
This is what real journalism and presentation of history looks like.
Got out in 2015, and been stumbling in life. You have helped and ultimately my family a big thank you brother
Got out the same year. I did autopsies on the bodies coming back and could not even fathom seeing bodies drop live.
Give your life to God if you haven’t already brother. Jesus is King. God bless you.
thank you hero 🙏 hope your doing well and heal 🙏
Andy Stumpf (Devgru) was also injured on the same raid as Tyler Grey in Sadr City 2005. Andy was shot 3 times outside of a house. In the fog of war, Team 6 guys put a C6 breaching charge on the door and blew it to get inside. What they didn’t know was Delta Force guys already came inside from the back and we’re directly on the other side of the door fighting in a hallway. That’s how Tyler got half of his arm off blown off. Andy told the story on his podcast
Dammit I didn't know this until now. It's crazy how with the best tech and tactical gear in the world shit Luke that can still happen
@@CMo762 yeah brother that guy Luke is a well known asshole🤜🤛 heard he’s a real staple down there in Tennessee
Andy is a great guy. Which podcast does he talk about that incident?
@@Berm_Blaster I believe the cleared hot podcast I'm not sure which episode but I have heard it before as well
Sadr City was no joke, spent a lot of time there.
I'm just coming across this. I became a hermit after the military. But i know you probably wont read this, Shawn, but i salute you, brother. Bringing this battle attention. Some of us hold it close to our hearts because of our brothers lost and what we endured. Thank you.
Well some of us read it and we’ve got your back as best we can.
I love the connections you are making between individuals who were in the same battle/area at the same time but didn’t know of each other. Seeing multiple different perspectives and experiences really brings together a detailed big picture. Love the mashup idea. Keep up the amazing hard work Shawn.
For real brother!!!! Man!!! Wow!!!
Agreed!!
Totally agreed! Mashing them together like this gave such a more comprehensive understanding of things that helped me understand the bigger picture of what was happening & why
Doesn’t matter how old it is. It’s Gold because they’re true life stories of these men who lived it.
You americans and not realising the real horror stories are told by the civilians of these countries lmao imagine thinking your soldiers done good there haha
@adamhodgson4185 we realize they done good because we had indeed done good! We routed the world of evil in the form of al-Qaeda and Isis and the Taliban. If you can cite one instance of putting a child's severed head on a pike in the name of one's cause, legitimately I'm all ears. But you can't because those scenarios do not exist. They were acts of Pure Evil that were rooted purely by the devil and his minions.
Old?
@redmorphius old?? What's your point? I have a nephew who served two tours in Iraq in 2004/ 5. He was a medic in the US Army and not only did he treat his own, being the US Army and other Allied Forces but he treated the locals from anything from strep throat to gunshot wounds. That's what the good guys do. They don't stick children's heads on a pike to intimidate the locals to keep their mouth shut and not help the Americans in any way shape or form because they would kill all of their family, all of their families friends and relatives Etc. That's what the bad guys do.
My brother this is less than 20 years ago, as far as wars go it is very recent
Got wounded in Fallujah before the first big battle. Fallujah and then Ramadi were problems from the very beginning of the occupation. Things escalated quickly during the summer of 03 and by the end of that summer the insurgency had sufficiently organized to initiate daisy chained IEDs as triggers for ambushes, then immediately launching a volley of RPGs at the vehicles, then massive SAF on the efforts of our forces to recover the vehicles that were hit. At exactly 15 minutes they would break contact because that’s how long it took apaches to get into the air on a bad TIC from BIAP… RIP R. Navea…
What interment without trial does to a insurgency.
@@kekistanimememan170the other option is melting the cities. But America is weak and doesn’t have the guts to do it again like we did with Japan.
@@Rudyelf1 If we did that, Russia would have already used some on Ukraine... We lead by example..
@@westonadams7135do we now? Is that why we have secret prisons where we hold prisoners for over a decade without charging them with a crime, still have legalized slavery, are the largest consumer of CP, have an addiction problem, trans people dictate to us terms, and the fattest people? Leading by example baby! Yeah! America #1
@@Rudyelf1you shouldn’t have been there in the first place and you’re championing this lol hysterical the delusion
As one of the few Army companies there in Fallujah in early 2004 I can agree that Marines were given the shittiest of resources there was. Army riflemen carried the newest generation equipment and the Marines were 2 gens behind us. Great war fighters just given crap to work with. We sat on one end of the Brooklyn Bridge and it was open season on the enemy. Those Marines should have had better equipment to operate with.
Whats up Ceravone!
Fucked up how shitty the marines funding is!! Smh 😢
Hi
You served with him ?
You as well? Served with the individual?
My Son was in Fallujah in The 1-8 Marines..He was an EOD Tec..in 2003. The Iron Triangle
NO ONE brings the truth on CZcams like Shawn Ryan and Vigilance Elite! Thank you brother and God bless you for all you do!!👍❤️
Word!
Facts 👍🏾
I see Shawn Ryan…I immediately stop and listen. The man is an absolute great of interviewing. Asks a question and let’s the guest answer and he never interrupts or interjects until the guest has given an answer.
I was there in the winter and spring of ‘04 in the same battalion as Cody. F 2/1. The Marine Corps Times cover before we went said “Fallujah…The Wild West.” That place turned boys into hardened men, and some of us never came back…physically and mentally.
You came back fine brother the civilian world is over emotional
I was there in 2004. It was wild. Sad for all the guys that didn’t make it out of there. Proud that I’m a Marine and served with a bunch of great dudes.
Thank you for your service
Glad you made it back man
@@adrianmolina821 What service are you talking about? Serving George Bush? Oh well. Good job 👏
@@abdullah.alomariserving lead to camel jockies.
Thank you for ur service
I was in 3/2 Marines from 1990-1994. Thank you Shawn for doing what you do! I know it has helped countless members of our military both active and inactive, like myself. I will forever be a Marine, nothing will ever change that, but being in the civilian world for 30yrs, you start to lose yourself. Watching your show has brought me back! Thank you, again! SEMPER FI to all Marines, and God bless all who have served and given their all!!
Shawn documenting true history with no censorship, you’re so good at these interviews!
I fucking love this show so much ❤🙌🏾👍🏾
Shawn is one of the best at what he does 🙌🏾
Wow... intense! More mashups needed. Shawn you've taken this to another level great job God bless you. This was so heartfelt 😢
I was a Marine from 2002-2011. It is strangely satisfying to hear someone who is not a Marine say that we had so few resources.
This edit is one of the greatest war stories of the century. Excellent work.
Thanks for joining us. I’m glad you enjoyed it!!
Any theories about alien involvement?
I loved the mashup. Super job of editing. Shawn, you do a great job of keeping Tyler Grey focused on his story. It's obvious that Grey is still suffering a lot, and I hope you are able to help him. Great content.
Mr. Ryan, this is incredible, I think you have opened the door once again to an incredibly awesome and historic thing, where you get many folks that were in the same battle together to give their perspective on the fight. Their stories need to be told together so that even the smallest of things are not lost to history but are recorded for the world to never forget. Thank you Sir for ALL that you and your team do.
This CZcams channel is quickly becoming one of my favorite for sure. This stuff is off the chain.
I’ve seen all these shows your doing an amazing job. I lost a friend and also my wife’s cousin in Fallujah in 07. This episode like many others is so well put together awesome job man. Thank you for this show it’s much needed. Best wishes to you and your family.
I can’t come up with words sufficient to express how humbled I feel listening to these stories. Shawn, you are doing a great thing here both for those that served, and those that didn’t.
Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul was the most remembered place for me in 06-07.
Same here. 05-07 was super hot. Very target rich environment. People didnt understand the amount of outside fighters coming in to come at us. I was a Recon Doc. Busy time.
Mosul, Baghdad, and Qwest for me. 03-04, 05-06, 08-09. 101st, 4th ID, 2nd ID.... Infantry
Thank you for your sacrifice guys. I wish you a happy summer. Peace.
@@soon2bsaint680 BROOO! YES. Fallujah, Ramadi, and Definitely up north in Mosul! F-ING Q West! Wow its been a min. I was over in Qtown too and then up in Mosul when that prison situation took place when Sadams nephew and friends took over the Jail emptied the Armory and ran for the border. Half my team had to go get him and other half helped recapture the prison.
@A K how would you describe fallujah? Based on what other marines said they pretty much describe it as hell on earth. Salute to you guys for serving, I tried to enlist earlier this year but health complications prevented me from being able to do so.
Incredible. I found myself holding my breath and grinding my teeth at different points in the interviews. God bless these men 🙏🏼🇺🇸
This was incredible to listen to. Wouldn't be surprised to hear that this was the first instance of a "mash up" of three different units, paramilitary/SOF/conventional. You guys are definitely on to something
A bunch of total badasses, so much damn respect to these men. 👏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽
@Manuel Vasquez once you sign that paper you have no choice…
@@manuelvasquez-kc4op war is hell. It’s not the call of duty you play at your moms basement
Tbh they should never have been there. I think they'd admit that..
I personally think the Iraqis fighting against the machine that is the u.s. military had balls.
I mean, Erik Prince made bank on government contracts while his employees got killed and shot up civilians, I wouldn't give him that label.
@@manuelvasquez-kc4opyou were never their do you can speak on this subject. Hearing about Fulljah and actually being there is two different things.
Putting the separate pieces together in this fashion provides an invaluable "big picture" you find nowhere else. Showing how the puzzle pieces fit together was long overdue. Thank you very much.
Shawn I love how you and your team edited this story. Legendary work man!
I was In the city of Fallujah for 13days during Phantom Fury. 13 months total 04/05
Semper Fi Marines and Soldiers in the suck with me 😉👊🏻💥 I’ll never forget when we first got there we were making fun of the name “Fallujah” like wtf is a Fallujah? Not even 30days later in April 2004 we found out and it never stopped until before Xmas. We thought we were good over the summer. So we trained local Iraqi forces how to shoot broken AK’s while they spent the summer fortifying the city for Phantom Fury. I watched General Mattis leave the wire one morning on the .50cal turret of a LAV. What a time it was to be alive!
WORLD CLASS and best innovative approach to stitch multiple podcasts like that. GENIUS!
As most SRS episodes, I watched Cody Alford when it first came out.. after hearing Tyler Grey on day 1; I’ve decided to go back and watch Cody Alfords again. Keep doing a bang up job Shawn!
It's amazing you've interviewed enough people to have three perspectives of the exact same battle. I love it!
Editing is super on point seamless transitions. Production quality on SRS is the unsung hero for sure. Multiple camera angles, sound quality is really clear and the image quality as well. Sean’s making sure he’s doing his part in exposing men of all ages to what real role models look like.
That one operators assessment of Marine command always trying to one-up each other on how shitty of conditions we could perform under was spot-fuc&ing on.
Schawrzkopf did more in 1991 than Mattis did in his entire career. As an outsider, it looks like a cultural issue starting in the Pacific Campaign with Chesty Puller. Marine officers are EXPECTED to pigeon-hole their field officers into throwing waves of infantry at a disciplined and/or highly-motivated defending adversary.
Then Big Army notices, becomes overwhelmed with guilt, and goes to bail them out. Like clockwork.
It's like having a thrice-divorced alcoholic roommate. You hate their guts, but you constantly have to step out at 2:30AM to track them down, only barely finding them in time to pull them from the railing of whatever bridge they've decided to jump off that Wednesday morning...
True that. I spent 10 years as an AAV crewman. I thought we trained in shitty conditions with shitty equipment to make combat easier. The whole “more sweat equals less blood bla bla bla”. I’ve known only a handful of good Marine officers go above Captain. LtCol Pete Cushing is about the only one I can think of offhand, but a lot of mediocre careerists went right up. They never learned the right lessons.
Amen.
Dropping this around the time the video game 6 days in fallujah came out was genius. BECAUSE that game sparked interest again in the topic and having a solid accurate story such as this one hopefully puts what the user experiences in that game into perspective. It was hell. It should be respected. What all these men and so many more, Lt Ackerman, Lt Grapes, Sgt Bonotai, all the men in this video experienced. Thank you Shawn this is fantastic I hope everyone watches this. Semper Fi.
Thank you for your amazing show. The storytelling is intense and needed. I was deployed the summer of 04 with the Air Force as an aeromedical evacuation tech (flight medic) during November we gained 4 more aircrews as Falluajh picked up. The patient loads from Iraq to Germany were intense. God bless all of you brave souls that were in the battle. It.was an honer to treat and care for so many wounded. No matter what job we all suffer the mental scars of this battle.
Thank you men for your service. The emotion in the voices is very chilling to me.
The way Tyler describes Marines is spot on. The Corps is made up of extremely capable A-type operators who are tasked with accomplishing tremendous against-all-odds outcomes on less than a shoe string budget. Their readiness is maintained with only 1.8% of U.S. defense spending. Extremely sad, but true.
USMC Veteran. I was in Fallujah in 2006, running around escorting EOD. chaos and insanity everyday.
Sean this is Honestly onenough the greatest interview do mash ups I have ever seen . I really hope you have the opportunity to do more of these. So awesome!!!!!!
Cody was one of my favorite guests you have ever had. I started following him after that. Obviously I don’t know him personally but he comes across a lot more genuine than a lot of people on the internet that wants to see the best for everyone he comes across. Thank you for your content. These stories are important. I feel like when I’m old and grey at least I hope my grandkids will be able to watch a Band Of Brothers type of show based on the type of interviews you do about the heroes from my generation.
Mark 19 shoots 40 mm rounds. Either HE or HEDP. I was a 0331 machine gunner with 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. My Battalion was part of RCT 7 for Phantom Fury.
1.4 M well earned subs. Congrats Shawn & team. Keep kickin ass!!❤
❤ if it wasn’t for all of you!!
This video is literally what I was trying to piece together in my mind while watching Tyler's podcast. You shawn are a genius
this mashup is so f'n good... I have seen all the episodes and it still was captivating revisiting it in this format... holy hell
Really nice job blending all the stories.
Very few shows capture your entire attention. SRS brings you completely inside. Real conversations, real stories, real shit. Won’t be long before you sit stop at the #1 spot. Thank you for your military service and thank you for the shows you share. Without them the truth remains hidden.
This is outstanding work. I don’t think I even blinked watching it. More of this, please.
Wow this was so well done! You are always top tier quality Shawn. I truly appreciate you, and thank you for your service.
I remember I joined the Marine corps infantry and i was going through bootcamp while Falluja was popping off. After i graduated from boot camp and school of infantry, I finally made it to my permanent duty station, and all the senior guys in my unit were all just getting back from the Falluja deployment...Never forgot the battle of Falluja! And Semper fuckin Fi!
Best podcast out there. Shawn you keep improving; congrats on all your success.
FIRST, Thank you all for your service. LOVE THIS FORMAT. Thank you for the work that goes into editing these episodes down into one video. It’s a lot of work that doesn’t go unnoticed
Great job blending the different viewpoints/ experiences together!
Glad you all liked it!!
I would love to see David Bellavia on this show sometime!
You got the senses knocked out of you... You still did well, in spite of everything going on. Thanks for your service.
Love how you made a video where each guest merges their point of view from the same battle. God Bless these Warriors
I’m not a veteran, but this show has given me a tremendous appreciation for what all war vets went through for my freedom, for the ways in which they are still suffering for it, for the normal lives they’ve scarified forever and for the need to give them far more support once they return back to civilian life.
thaaat wasnt for your freedom. that was for oil, and to make a small handful of americans really filthy rich. the rest of us suffered for this BS. some of us lost our lives, suffered psychological traumas, some back home carry the financial and emotional burdens. this war wasnt for us.
Damn.. Thanks Shawn for this.. tough to watch, watery eyes.. I was one of those Army guys that came down from the rail station in the north of Fullujah..... RIH Jose A. Velez.
I wasn't there, never even been in the services.... But my eyes are watery too.... Im you guys age, close anyways, i woulda been 17 in 2004.... Can't begin to imagine what that was like
I love this. The telling of a particular story from different perspectives is great. More like this please!
Huge respect. Great interviews thank you 🙏
Outer body experience during war combat is seriously an experience. Great story!!!!
I was in the Haditha Triad. I remember one op we were out by the river. Lots of Iranians loved the river because they could fire on us (yes, Iranians) and move on if the shit got too real. We had an engagement and my RO said, "holy shit I got shot in the fuckin' head!" I yelled back, "if you got shot in the head you'd be dead keep firing!" I was the point man and had breached a fenced in gate to escape. Later on we were all laughing about the shit and the RO guy comes back and says, "see!" He had a bullet in his fuckin' Kevlar. Dude made it out.
great job mixing in the different perspectives!
Beautiful editing! My favorite show to watch 👌thank you all for your sacrifices!
Aww I was hoping for a longer episode. Well done regardless!
Full episodes on Shawn’s channel 🙂
Its scary to me on many levels but my youngest grandson is leaving for Marine bootcamp and now im even more concerned. Lots of prayers going up for sure
Please understand the delta guy was not saying the marine corps don’t train there men well, because the marine corps is what turned me into a man. But the marines get the lowest amount of money in all of the branches. We are the smallest, but the best trained in my opinion, of course. We can do a lot with very little. Your grandson will be just fine. Tell him to hold his head up, keep moving forward, and never quit. Good Luck and Semper Fi !
@Bill Carson thank you Sir. I am a Christian Gramma and Hes my youngest, i do believe God put this in him from childhood. Thank you Sir for your Service. You are appreciated.
@Bill Carson thank you Sir. I am a Christian Gramma and Hes my youngest, i do believe God put this in him from childhood. Thank you Sir for your Service. You are appreciated.
@joe burnette Thank you so much. As i said to Mr Carson. Im a Grandma with her youngest who just graduated leaving in days. I believe God put this in him in childhood. I do want to Thank You also for your Service and let you know you are appreciated
Marines was a bad choice. But if that's it....That's it.
My favorite show. Thanks to all of Shawn Ryan's support team in the background. Gifted brother their
That’s was outstanding. Bravo, Bravo ladies and gents!That was sincerely cool and impressive
3:10 Compelling story. He described it in a way that brought it to life. Appreciate his experience.
In Afghanistan as a Grunt Marine -- 2004. I was issued an m16A4 with IRON SIGHTS. ACOGs were for PLT SGTs and LTs. Think about that. lol
thats traight up Nam equopment 😂
This is something I think about often while listening to episodes of your podcasts because there is a lot of overlap between your guest’s service time. It would be neat to see it on a map overlay where some of these guys were at the same times.
This mashup is very creative. Great way to pull the stories together. Great job Shawn
I wanted to do this for a while, take stories from a bunch of different veterans that were in the same battle, but different perspectives, and weave them all together.
Yep!
Very heavy testimony. You can see trauma and deep PTSD in this interview and it's disturbing. It is not disturbing because men doing work, its the reality of combat.
Shawn, thank you for bringing this together. Conducting CASEVAC out of TQ for this brought me to the darkest places. Hearing these accounts not only validates my memories, but is proof existence is possible in life to come. This has healing effects I cannot describe. Please don’t shelve this mission you are on.
What a great edit Shawn! Thank you for the excellent content.
I understand a lot of us want to hear Tyler’s combat stories. And it may seem like he’s not wanting to tell them. Tbh I’m happy to understand the man. Where he’s been. Where he’s at now after everything. If he opens up then so be it. That’s not all this show is about for me personally. Overcoming trauma and obstacles is what i love most.
Same here
Wow! I’m sitting here after watching this and I can feel myself back there. We did have the shittiest equipment and we took pride in doing a lot with a little. Our HMMWB up-armor came from the Army’s DRMO. We didn’t have armor for the MA-2 or MK-19 turrets. I have pics of guys driving little Jeep-looking Mercedes vehicles w/o armor. I can smell the smells and taste dirt. It’s insane that all these years later that Fallujah had such an impact on so many of us that it never goes away.
Loving these podcasts just finished Tyler and started cody today! Loving the work Shawn 🙏💚🤙
Glad I watched. Well done!
Haven’t seen someone mention this yet but the out of body experience Cody is referring to is most likely a depersonalization/derealisation episode. For some people it happens once and for others it stays longer. It’s an extreme form of a panic attack. No idea how he continued to persevere in the middle of that chaos. Kudos to you bro ✊🏼
One of the Marines here.
From my experience, I can tell you that there is a certain point where training takes the wheel for you and you're basically so wired up that you go into a sort of "autopilot", for lack of a better term. There are entire gaps from certain hours long engagements that I don't even remember. But the more experience and exposure you get to it, the less that happens and you begin to gain the ability to think more clearly during the adrenaline dump. Then the adrinline dump becomes less intense. It seemed at least.
My psychiatrist said that this phenomenon is basically your brain rewiring itself for survival. Problem is, it doesnt wire itaelf back to how you were before.
This is why guys might react to surprise fireworks or a car backfiring by hitting the ground as if they are being shot at, years after they've been out and are back home. Thats happened to me and its incredibly embarrassing when it happens infront of other people. Crazy stuff.
@@Dead_Again1313 Not embarrassing man. You might look at it yourself as embarrassing but I think most civilians around you would think “shit that guys gone through some stuff”. Pretty bad ass look (thoughts from a civilian) 🤙🏻.
@@EtotheG Thanks brother. I get what you mean. But strangers not knowing me or where I've been, what I've done have seem more amused than anything else. Like "what was that?" Or "what's wrong with that guy?", "What happened? Are you okay?". I shrug it off easily and it hasn't happened very many times, thankfully.
But I'm sure you're right in that some can tell what it is and what's responsible for the reaction. Just sucks that it's involuntary and when it happens, you're already on the ground before you even process the sound.
Pretty interesting the way the mind works when it comes to defense mechanisms.
@@Dead_Again1313 no judgement here at all, just wanting to offer an outside perspective.... Is a little embarrassment worth it, due to h how many times that sort of reaction surely saved your life over there? Regardless, thank you for what you want thru over there, for us, from the bottom of my heart my friend...
Almost 20 years now and I still don’t sleep and see it every time I close my eyes
Thank you guys for your service!!!!!!
Great job 👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
Amazing podcast 🎉🎉😢🎉
I remember a firefight in AbuGhraib, on the backside of BIAP at the Old IP Station in which the Armor Unit came up to help us and they blew through 200+ rounds of 7.62. If we were allowed to use MK19, the fight would have been relatively short. 40mm is a great equalizer.
I fought there. 04. 2/12 Cav US Army attached to 2 Recon Marines. There was a moment i just stopped and took in everything going on. The scene, the smell. A second seems like a lifetime now. Working with the marines gave me such more respect for them. We fought side by side. They will always be my brothers bonded in blood. Much respect for my brothers and sisters in arms. Always faithful.
Keep allowing the sharing of these guys and team members!
I knew some things and friends that have been over in the sand box .
I'm a infantry marine and afghanistan combat veteran and can attest to the gear...and conditions....so true man
Shawn once again amazing work! Love hearing first account stories of heroes…we need it more now than ever .
Thank you for making these. Better than any war documentary I’ve ever seen!
There needs to be a movie made for the battle of fallujah to honor the men who put there lives on the line.
I had a similar out-of-body experience when I was hit by a truck at 70mph on my motorcycle. It's a really weird experience. Saw it all play out from above in slow motion and as soon as the bike impacted the truck I was back in my body laying in the road. Never lost consciousness that I am aware of. Remember every second. I have no explanation for it. Spent a week in the ICU, got really fucked up, and couldn't walk for months. I should be dead, the gear I was wearing is likely why I am still here. Still, remember the sound of the helmet hitting the truck. Sounded like when a baseball bat hits a fastball.
And that is why I will not ride a motorcycle... maybe a dirt bike though. All the fun with none of the traffic.
Sorry about your accident, but i'm always intrigued about OoBE's. Like you said, it's hard to explain.
glad you're ok. that sounds scary.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s I remember well the pain of war on the faces of the men and women that had been to Vietnam. I remember well the shame so unjustly heeped upon these returning warriors and swore that would never happen again even if it would just be me they'd know somebody gives a shit about them and what they went thru. When war broke out again I went to work celebrating their return today they need to be heard their stories told. Shawns podcast and the few like it do this so well. It warms my heart seeing this is being done. We need so much more of this, they need it we've lost way to many already. God bless you Shawn.
Awesome work Mr. Ryan. Dogging IEDs all day, eating one for breakfast, has no biz compared to this. The emotion from the Seal is palpable. Dealing with ptsd and talking about details r two dif animals. TY all for sharing. ✌️