Wes Bryant is a U.S. Air Pressure Grasp Sergeant (retired) who served eight fight deployments within the put up 9/11 period as a Particular Operations Forces Tactical Air Management Get together (TAC-P) and Joint Tactical Air Controller (JTAC).
He co-authored the e-book “Looking the Caliphate: America’s Warfare on ISIS and the Daybreak of the Strike Cell,” a first-person account of the battle on ISIS written alongside the previous commanding common of Iraq, Main Normal (retired) Dana Pittard. Embedded with Special Forces groups underneath a Navy SEAL activity pressure, Wes was the tactical lead for a contingent of particular operations JTACs to first set foot in Iraq to cease ISIS.
He’s been a lifelong author, beginner thinker, and avid scholar of the martial arts. At the moment, he pursues writing and modifying, and teaches Chinese language Kung Fu and Tai Chi.
0:00 Intro.
2:05 Distinction between TAC-P and JTACs.
13:50 Shifting between PJ, JTAC, and TACP work discovering what was proper.
14:25 Pararescue Indoctrination Course.
15:55 Fight Divers Qualification Course.
20:00 Studying about TACPs when at Medina Annex.
22:40 Fought to get again to the CDQC to move.
28:15 First foray into fight calling in an airstrike in fight.
32:13 First battle in Iraq with 1st CAV in 2004 after Fallujah calling in F-15s with 500 and 2Klbs bombs.
39:40 Being the odd man out from the Air Pressure dropped into new Army items.
45:20 Description of one of the vital formative experiences as a controller in his first management in Afghanistan whereas getting shot at with 173rd.
58:13 The “most chaos on the battlefield” was early within the battle towards ISIS in Iraq in 2014.
1:03:33 A part of the rationale for writing the e-book was to indicate how deliberate every engagement was.
1:08:38 A tour to Korea in 2007 and discovering a technique to deal with his PTSD. Went kicking and screaming to Camp Casey and was among the best strikes of his profession.
1:19:42 Wes describes an expertise at a shopping center in Bahrain that modified his perspective on “the enemy.”
1:31:20 Carrying the canine tags of his pal John Brown, a PJ who died within the shootdown of Extortion 17 in August 2011.
1:32:50 Appreciation for Army Special Forces (ODA) groups.
1:33:55 Favourite plane: A-10s for mounted wing and Apaches (AH-64s) for helos.
1:34:40 Would you do all of it once more? “Completely…would have executed all of it once more.”
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