He never griped, he appreciated and enjoyed his entire career. He never bragged...just gave an detailed explanation of his experiences. I am inspired by this man's overall attitude, and impressed by his career beyond words. This man is my hero.

This guy seems like a very Genuine & Humble person.. We need more people like this. Not to mention an amazing soldier! Thank you for your service and multiple deployments! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

My daddy was World War II Navy a chief petty officer. He spent 26 years in the navy. He and his friends would get together and they would tell their stories. Let me tell you what a riot it was! And so has his daughter I still love listening to these stories from our servicemen and women. It's important that we hear them

@alexcope8142

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no one cares

Being a military dad takes its toll on the relationship between dad and kids. I lived it for almost 8 years.

Just as soon as you think the story is over, it gets more and more interesting. Excellent storytelling, his military career is every American boys dream, and he's a super interesting individual! Thank you guys, I wish you and your families the best, and Merry Christmas!

@robertleonard7909

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Ppl 5

Listening to this has helped me understand my best friend that is a combat veteran. I have PTSD from childhood trauma. His is from combat. We have no contact anymore and listening to all these vets talk is helping me understand his side. Thanks to all vets . I tried to be a Marine but I also have ADHD so my dream wasn’t going to happen. Thanks ………David Paul from west Cincinnati.

I am amazed.. "thank you for your service" does not even come close.Wow.

Listened to this one on Christmas, what a treat to hear a comment featured at the end of the show, thank you ! Looking forward to another great year of conversations

Great interview, Jeff thank you for your service and sacrifice to the country...God Bless.

I have been watching your podcast for a year now. I have not been in the military nor do I know anyone in the military. I’m just a Vegas housewife but I am ADDICTED to hearing these stories of truly fascinating, BRAVE and heroic people. It’s a true eye opener for the “average person”. Also, I just hafta say you have a great voice, good hair (LOL) and the perfect decorum for a podcast. You were meant to do this. My husband and I are die hard fans. ❤

Thank you for your service. God Bless! You are a inspiration. I deal with severe ptsd and traumatic brain injury. So I understand that aspect.

I didn't realize until the end that I have heard the mutually assured destruction episode randomly. Freaking awesome.

Great interview Jeff and you seem like a cool dude as well, love the childhood stuff, i was an 80s child as well, such a great time to be young! The army is full of different personalities and skill-sets, it was cool to hear yours, you can only take so much super duper meathead cyborg warrior types lol.

great to hear Jeff's story.

Hey Ryan, Just a shout out for what you're doing. I'm very impressed with your interview skills and the obvious enthusiasm/empathy with your courageous guests. It shows with the rapport you're able to achieve with all the vets. As I have watched each video I tell myself that is my favorite but then the next one follows and I then realize each one has it's own merit. As a vet who never was in combat I realize I was lucky when I hear all the after effects they experience. It makes me understand more about why my brother had changed so much after Viet Nam.

Shout out that K9 as well, as you and your teams. Merry Christmas everyone!

Jeff seems like a cool guy 😎

Thanks Ryan!!

Man that recruiter really went the extra mile lol

Dang this is a great story. Thank you!

Jeff, you're an awesome American! So glad you're doing well. My regards to that other hero, your wife.

Love you man and thanks for your awesome service to our families and people bless

Love him. He is a American hero

Great story

Great video

fugitt this is SR srgt miss ya brotha

Very relaxed and humble story Sir. Thank you, for sharing your experiences and for your service 🙏 besides world war II films I think the first film I saw about Vietnam was the Green Berets, obviously with John Wayne starred in the film It had its unique perspective about that war when it wasn't very popular here in the United States with a lot of the younger people. But certainly painting the NVA as sneaky and ruthless with their booby traps etc was a real eye opener for a young teenager (too young to serve or be drafted in that war,) anyway my recollection is that they didn't glorify war but they certainly glorified or (paid tribute to the Green Berets).

Nice

Hahaha I absolutely love the part where he went and grabbed the Oakley's 😂😂😂 The fact that guy basically said, "f the Oakley's I almost just died" and launched them totally makes sense 😭😂

@Gperalta

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I cant believe how well he speaks as well, seems very intelligent on everything he talks about and he is hilarious! This guy is great, awesome interview!

I think its like in Starship troopers the fact they tell you not to do it only makes you want to do it more because the adversity factor

Dude this episode is great it needs to be heard by more than 20000

Read a book about the battle of Debeca. Wild story!

Ive heard that mushrooms can reconnect brain paths and the paths in your back. Certain ones. I got a back injury alsonandnhave have been looking into it.

Hero

I’m 46 and I read every new comic and book that co es out whe. It involves Star Wars

You should have Terrance Popp on 🤘🏻

A javelin round is 200 000$ bro!

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After hearing that intro, Ryan, when do we get to hear your "Combat Story"?

I was at SFAS for 911 we were at McCall at the same time

lol javelin cost even then was no where near 20 million

I spent 7 years in Iraq and 1 year in Afghanistan in combat zones as a contractor. The Iraqi would Incase the mortar round in ice and place it in the tube. When the ice melted the round would fall in the tube and go off. By than the Iraqi people who setup the mortar was long gone. Trying to kill them in the position the mortar was fired was useless because no one would be there.

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Great podcast. I think Jeff mistakenly said that each Javelin is worth 20 million a piece. Far from it, more like 200K. 😂😂

@DC2Ams

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Came here to say this. They may have cost more at the time, but not $20 million or anywhere near it!

What happened to Marco?

Was this Frank Ant@#$& team? Roughneck 91?

$197k for a Javelin, not $20 million.

Hannibal?

from flying in DCS, at any altitude everything looks the same and cant tell a Abrams from a t55 at any level! all most all buildings look the same and the only reason i know where the bad guys are are because i placed them there

how come he doesnt have a youtube, or better yet, rumble channel? i read the book. excellent work. id love to shoot javelins that much. i loved how they needed more missiles so badly a guy went and basically stole a truck full of em to rearm in that battle!

Javelin doesn't cost 20million dollars, surely...?

In short words: "If you are a surviving soldier you can tell a lot of stories feeling like a hero or you are DEAD!" I thik by all this political lies and misuse of soldiers you must be a strong character as a human to divide wrong from right so that you can stay at last in front of a mirror...❣️

10th group guy is out the army now

This guy is needy. Just because you get injured in combat doesn't necessarily mean you are a hero. There, I said it. I absolutely appreciate this guys service, don't get me wrong, but come on.....this guy needs some attention. I hope you get the attention from your daughter that you are wanting from this video.

Why does everyone in the military mispronounce “sergeant”?

1:01:05 you say the Pilot's got released n its policy and you wanted to say, if the pilots were out there that they did nothing wrong or wasn't their fault and they thought they were saving your lives, well yeah dude I hate to tell you and be brutally honest but you gave bad intel, bad Directions, and you weren't clear. There was two batches of Tanks, one set of abandon with friendlies and one area further away which is enemy, you failed to specify that to the pilots at all, which is hands down some of the most important info that should have been priority to mention. so I don't know brother I hate to say it but whoever was on that radio, that's on him. Just how you make it sound is like it's on the pilots, I mean you're not blaming them at all but the way your wording it kind of does sound like it's their fault, saying of they thought they were doing the right thing and saving lives. And sound like you're deflecting and still at the end say how, you cant ever come to blame them. Like wtf, no one should blame them. Just because they dropped the bombs but it's your fault because you gave the bad Intel and unclear information. I mean having two sets of Tanks, one with friendly and one an attacking force, I mean that is huge valuable information that needs to be clear! One set of Tanks is enemy, one set of Tanks is blown up abandoned with friendly Kurds. Smh they cant tell and cant tell the difference, they are going so fast. You're their eyes basically. So i just dont like that whole conversation and the tone and how u made it sound. Patronizing too.

@LRRPFco52

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The A-10 is the most commonly-involved US aircraft in fratricide events, followed by the AH-64 Apache. The A-10A didn’t have a lot of tools other than pilot’s eyeballs to PID and set up for a CAS run at the time. A-10C now has FLIR with Helmet-cueing and JTIDS/LINK-16, along with GPS. I have called in A-10A and F-16Cs for CAS. A-10s are actually a very slow-flying aircraft by design, meant to support helicopters from the Vietnam conflict problems they had with A-1 Skyraiders not being able to carry big enough weapons to bust tank chassis AAA like the ZSU-23-4. Jeff is making sure the pilots know that he doesn’t blame them for that incident, because there are many other incidents where they deliberately attacked friendly forces, even ignoring IFF signals that were common to Coalition per SOP (VS-17 panels on vehicles). It’s pretty clear you have no relevant experience in this area, so I would probably just erase your post.

I haven't really started to listen to this, but I'm already pissed off. I never got to shoot a javelin while I was in. That was the one weapon system I truly wanted to fire at least once.. It's just so f****** cool coming out of there all slow like and than pew. Gone. Can't wait to hear the rest of this, although I'm going to be a little bitter that I never got to shoot that thing. The back... That is what got so many of us. Three back surgeries . RLTW 3/75

@LRRPFco52

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We had this E-5 not show up to work one day when we were doing ranges at Bragg, so I had to cover down on a detail he had been assigned to after I just got done running a zero range all day. My PSG had me and some PFCs in a Cargo HMMWV do go guard some ammo at another range. As we were pulling up to that range, we saw Javelins being launched off in rapid succession, as if they were as common a .22LR. We get to the range, and there’s a flat bed truck packed with pallets of Javelins. These guys in all kinds of civilian clothing, flight suits, and sterile BDUs with sleeve pockets are firing off not only Javelins, but the Hk GMG 40mm off a tripod, RPGs over on the left side of the range, AKs, Hk G3s, and not a one of them had a military vehicle. I had never seen anything like it. They almost let me fire off some RPG rounds, but the launcher was too hot from being fired repeatedly.

Why do you only have special forces soldiers as guests? Are regular soldiers that have done amazing things not as important? Or is it a views thing?

A Javelin Missile does not cost $20 Million!!!! 😂😂 cmon man! You’re a retired special forces 3rd group and you think that one javelin missile costs $20 million, you think they go crazy on the budget like that? They cost a little under $200k which is still expensive! So you did fire millions of dollars worth all together! But I’ve heard that the beginning ones who closer to the $120k price point per missile. It’s the clu that is the expensive part, the extra missiles to reload only cost $78k per. So the real money comes from the original setup of the clu. Such an OP weapon to have, I’m say all you have to do is give 20 guys like 25 javelins and 10 mini guns and 10 50 cals along with other weaponry like rpgs, 240 grenade launchers, I mean, think about how expensive just one of those 2,000 bombs are! And they have to go through hell just to get one too. Might as well just go stupid with the guns and ammo because it’s the cheapest shit competent to one jet and the fuel alone. Never give up the AC-130 though, I believe that every freaking oda should have one whenever they leave the wire because that is the f’ing baddest machine!