That night we lost one of the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Force guys and I think everybody was wounded except for one of our teammates who was next to the sniper who got cut in half that same propeller swatted him on the ass, and knocked him over. Got heavy on the stick and literally nose was just down into the lead helicopters tail rotor which dislodged it, and severed one of the team members in half and caused quite a bit of destruction around it. They thought we were taking incoming, and you felt it just the noise how intense it was. Two helo’s infilled into a FOB (Forward Operating Base) the second helicopter hopped a power line. Their door gunners kept us in where typically we would have had our feet hanging off the sides. So they had two helicopters, NAFSOC’s MH-60’s which is their version of it. Literally I think 10 mins later I was heading to QRF, and my SGM was telling me to get everybody ready because we had to go QRF these guys because they just got in a helicopter crash. I remember saying hey don’t frap in, don’t crash. I remember making a joke in typical SOF fashion just shooting the shit. I was on the HLZ, and seeing you guys off. We were on the same team, you guys were doing an op. That was Iraq 08, we were in the CIF at the time. So me and Kev were Snipers on the same detachment. From Mike Glover the show’s co-host, and Kevin T who is a 20 year Special Forces veteran: Operators, Special Forces Selection, FieldCraft LLCīelow is an excerpt from the episode. Like, share, download, and leave us a review on ITunes Search Global Recon Podcast on ITunes, or click the link in my bio which will give you access to the ITunes, and Soundcloud versions of the episode.
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