quite traumatic having to become a nomad because of how many people you have to tell _"yes, 45 does hit harder than a 9mm and knowing that will save your life"_

this Podcast is a great format for Veterans to release information and suppressed interactions with War...An outlet for Elite Men to Express Real life Situations with the World and open Minds to the Beauty and Horror of What Fighting for a Country requires.God Bless these Beautiful Men and Women

I think saying that it was the bloodiest war is a complete smack in the face to WW2 vets and Vietnam vets, Vietnam war had 10 times more casualties than the Iraq war and definitely more than Vietnam. Why don't you change your title to "marine shares his experience from a bloody war in history"? Come on man don't disrespect WW2 and Vietnam vets like that.

@@campsitez2355 You’re right but you’re wrong watch a ballistic test with a 9 mm versus a 45. I’m going with the 9 mm all day it has way better penetration.

@@SpiritualWars once you're trained to be a pig that's what you'll always be. you get no free answers today.

THIS COMMENT 1,000 times! It’s what makes his channel AWESOME!

My both my uncle and my stepdad were there at the time my uncle was army with 101st and. My dad was 1st marines 2nd Bat and has had many deployments since then. Had told me a bit but now much but it always sticks with me about how both my uncle and stepdad both agree it was one of the most uncomfortable, violent, and intense combat experiences they’ve had.

I can't in 04 also.. it was just getting into fall back in the states.

2/24 Marines not far from there 2003-2004 Triangle of Death.

@@Mike-hn4uu it’s backed up by other peoples accounts my guy. Tyler Grey (CAG) is one that can verify.

@@georgefloydsinhellwbreonna5330 that’s all I wanted to hear brother. With fake ass shit smothering us (Breona “dead body in the trunk” gray is innocent, George Floyd loved his daughter, hands up don’t shoot, white men are the biggest threat to national security) I have zero credibility to lend online characters who come to the table with such wild tales. Thanks for going the extra mile here - I never caught Shawn’s explanation if he already DID mention this legend’s credibility check.

its so stupid to ask ur soldier to write a death letter. if so, write one with your testimony, no need for this in war.

Fr

He killed children! Glad he is dead!

He did what he had to do, like all great men do. RIP

Never kill children

@@wala3o No great man would kill a child! You can't call someone great that did that!

Keep him at heart bro that tough man still stands inside you.

And all for what, complete waste of time and damaged American reputation globally

​@dndnfbf5854 it was for control of the oil and they wanted to turn lybia Syria Iran and a couple other countries into democracy ran countries and they wanted no part of it!!!!

We were in Fallujah 2 different times between March 2003- January 2004. It was wild but still relatively quiet compared to the more known time frames of 2004-2007. I will say this. You could definitely see and sense the build up to what happened there later. It's like no matter how dominant we may have felt. You just could just see that something major was on the horizon. They were smart warriors to be honest. I believe this may be where a bunch of EOD guys were attacked. The enemy had learned all the different letters and numbers on the vehicles. They set the EOD guys up to respond to a much more larger set of explosives. They started FOCUSING on medic tracks after incidents. If I remember correctly. This may be where we started painting over all of the track number identifiers in our entire unit. My unit was Grim Troop 3 ACR. Our vehicles had G (#) on all of them. During a briefing we were told that it was going around that some of the locals thought our troop had something to do with God because our vehicles had G on them. Sounds crazy. Its true. Fallujah was just weird. It's like you couldn't put your finger on it. It's like it was quiet, but not quiet. The moment you thought you were good, chaos hit in some way. I've been to cities that were terrible for our unit. We had our own major combat time frame other places. But it was just easier and different. You knew exactly what was up. Chaos and that's it. Fallujah was damn near sneaky chaos for us.

@@ValiantVisions314thank you for your service!! Appreciate the story man. If you could give a couple more that’d be dope. Can’t imagine at all what it would be like that out there but it’s always amazing hearing all these stories. Truly unreal. God bless brother

@@ValiantVisions314 Falluja wasn't even my units' AO. We got called down from Al Qa'im (on the Syrian border on the Euphrates). From what I heard shit picked up in Al Qa'im when they saw us leave. We came back to bigger local graveyards and the locals running from us. Confused us. After that mission we got called to assist in other ops from Haditha to Al Asad several times, along with our main mission which was recon on the Syrian border north of Al Qa'im. Fallujah was the one that first pissed me off. It was was demoralizing seeing a mission started but not actually completed (a clear win). And it definitely got me seeing that the overall strategy in Iraq was not to win anything. It wasn't our (the various units) fault, it was politics. There was no winning strategy. It only continued like that through the rest of the year. My motivation, and many other's, was destroyed that year. And, YES, the locals were always watching. Units all over the country would take the same routes constantly and the IEDs just got bigger and better as the year progressed. We would watch them on rooftops and in streets watching us, sometimes with cellphones or radios in their hands. I think the exact moment I felt we were fucked was when someone in my leadership actually used the words "hearts and minds" in a briefing and I had to keep myself from yelling out "are you fucking serious, you didn't just say that". At my age now, thinking back on that it's both hilarious and extremely sad.

"EVIL" It's funny how that word conjures up different images in our head when heard as opposed to those of a civilian. WHen heard they will nod as if they comprehend evil but never will they have the faintest idea of what true evil is (and it's our job to make/keep it that way) however, sometimes I envy them. It's lonely having these images, experiences and knowledge that I possess and no one to understand their implications.

Agreed, his guests are great, especially when he finds lesser known ones.

Yeah he’s an enigma for sure. Anyone looking at him like some punk with tattoos would quickly realize this guy is a different breed lol

My worst nightmares cannot compare to what Cody Alford actually lived through. I can’t help but feel guilt enjoying hearing him talk, knowing he’s reliving that stuff as he’s speaking about it.

You would be an idiot to think all down to earth men are harmless.

@@regalsurvivor3418 All people at their core have the capability to be dangerous. People make the choice to be an idiot.

Ik it wasn’t for the right reasons we invaded but thank you for what you did.

quite traumatic having to become a nomad because of how many people you have to tell _"yes, 45 does hit harder than a 9mm and knowing that will save your life"_

Just some back story on him, he climbed the ranks really fast at a young age in the Marine. To do this, you have to be able to communicate well because you are always talking to a large group of marines.

@@johnnyc0811 as a marine you shoot a 45 yes that is correct.

Ya, i need to watch the full episode.

Most all men and women that have seen combat won't talk about some of the shit they seen I have heard stories from Nam to Dessert Storm all the up till lately. I have the upmost respect for them all and my condolences to the ones that ended up paying the ultimate sacrifice of their lives.. our government needs to do better at helping them when they come home

Good for you for being a faithful wife! Many women just abandon their husbands when they are disabled, as my ex did with me. But you are sticking with the man you married. You are not that common anymore so I want to commend you!

@@ToddSauve Actually I met him after he got out. His ex wife did the same thing to him. After sleeping with all of Craigslist. That was 10 years ago ❤️

@@odinsvalkyrie7769 Ain't married life grand ... sometimes. I wish these "exes" could see what worms they are, and what heroic women you and your like are! 💖💖💖

@@ToddSauve I agree! Thank you, I really appreciate that!

thank you.

SEALs, Delta, Rangers, paratroopers and the Marines do it better than all of them combined. Did you know in the Pacific, the Army lost twice as many as the Marines.

@@Halcyon1861did you know the army sent in significantly more troops than the marines?

Thanks for sharing this man. Hell of story you got here. Pops and brother in Vietnam. So surreal

Omg 17 years old.

@@anthonyhart9878 They were only Marines, they were not special forces, only grunts, my dad went through sniper school in Camp Pendleton, back then they weren’t scout-snipers merely marksman school & they went out alone into N Korea past the wire. USMC Quantico,Virginia wasn’t founded until 1974. Dad retired in 1967, he never finished the 8th grade, so he joined the USMC, mother said that because they lived in the country they only had one teacher and grades from first-twelve grades all together, and he felt out of place because he was already shaving a full beard daily. He thought it was better to be a USMC than picking cotton. Additionally, my oldest brother was killed in 1973, and was shot 4 days from 2 months in Vietnam. Both were USMC, however they were only riflemen. Dad’s 3 brothers in the South Pacific who also fell were only grunts as well. Incidentally they took photos in their dress blues, yet none of them actually owned dress blues.

Carlos Is and was a legend! I would of loved to shake his hand!

@@glockdude5472 I think he passed in 1998 or 2000 from M/S. But I’m not sure, my dad retired in 1967, but he & his military colleagues were decorated from the President of South Korea Marines, Sailors, soldiers, Airmen & dad already passed in 2015, but he saw him at a Vietnam veterans function in DC. Dad said he was in crutches, but he should have been in a wheelchair,yet he said “once a Marine” he would not allow his brothers to see him beat , or fall. “Semper Fi” Center yourself in the hatch DevilDog, Hoorah

I listened to this whole series. And your comment made me fkn cry

Americans aren't too bright when it comes to planning ahead. Just bragging afterward/taking majority credit for everything 🤷

Same here in U.S. before you deploy, they make sure your Life Ins. Policy/Will is all signed, initialed in the right places. After that you can leave a farewell letter with the Chaplains Office. While waitin' to get on the iron bird, it really does ground you in your own mortality. But, being the crazy combat medic I am, I always said "F death on a battlefield"! My motto was "It came to me in a dream in boot camp. I'm going to die at age 106 violently with a shit-eatin' grin on my face. I'm gonna die at the hands of a jealous man regarding his ole lady". 😉😜🤣 I'd tell each man in my Platoon they too share the same fate, but I'd change the ages it would happen😉❤️🤠😎👍🏾❤️🇺🇸

Word. One of my buddies is a former Ranger. He told me about a school he helped liberate that was being used as some sort of training camp. He said the sick f***s had kids shackled to walls in the basement of the school who’d been raped hundreds of times. Really disgusting stuff that puts hate in your heart.

You know what the problem with human shields are, right? They're not bulletproof.

@@jamiestewart48 they don’t move fast enough,

You guys just really making light of what this man just told us. I'm sorry your friend went through that. Human shields or not guys, those were women and children who only knew a foreign government much larger than them was invading. They're still human

The local women and children are savages.

My cousin served in nam, he came home with a big punji stick injury! My condolences.

I was n fallujah during that time. 2/1 Fox Co. 0331.

@@Itsgusgusshiiiit brotha Semper Fi

Yes, but its over the top brother and its raising red flags. Stories this off the wall need to be verified with some tiny shred of outside evidence and I am smelling some bullshit going on here. Shawn is paid based on the clicks he gets so the crazier the story the better. I would, for one, like to know he did some digging to check up on this guy - and if he really did, then by all means I will stfu and grab my pocorn.

@@Mike-hn4uu Maybe but a lot of people in those battles, of they even made it home, have never been the same since with some of the stuff they saw and went through. He even said he had been to war but those battles were different

@@Mike-hn4uuthe SOF community is so small, especially MARSOC since it’s only been around for 19 years and if he was lying someone would have called him out by now. Just because you never experienced war because you’re not as bad ass doesn’t mean he hasn’t.

@@SergioHernandez-vr8bx I didn’t mean any offense whatsoever and your point is well received. It’s a shame, I’ve just literally noticed so much lying and deceiving and stolen valor elsewhere lately - if I could edit I would truly start a KZfaq channel right now calling it all out, but it’s making me jaded. I appreciate the fuck out of this man and his effort for our country. I got some good feedback here in this thread, it’s helping restore some of my faith in humanity.

@@Mike-hn4uu a lot of times the shit people like this go through is so traumatic on the brain that they can just see everything they’re talking about that’s why a lot of times they can recall like everything in the war but not remember shit about before bc they’re brain blocked all the stuff out from before to make room for all of this shit that they went through the brain is powerful thing. I hope that made sense lol…

Such a true warrior. Best interview to date.

Just because his trail and tribulations are different than yours doesn’t mean your still not a hero, anyone who willingly puts their life on the line for this country is a hero in my book! Thank you for your service!

You probably had ptsd how did you pass a psych

@@user-hi7xf7eg1t Well, it’s really not your business, but I passed a psych evaluation for the civilian law enforcement jobs I’ve held and every contract position I was hired for. Not every person who is in a traumatic situation gets ptsd. The ones that do, at least the ones I know, in the military, or law enforcement, are still able to maintain a career, family, and social life.

Please tell us what he told you

Where at?