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Right now we hear the Fight Story of former Special Forces Inexperienced Beret Eric Neal. Actually, you’ll hear many fight tales on this episode as Eric recounts his 4 deployments to Afghanistan in simply 4 years from 2010 to 2014 in very kinetic environments, shedding many mates and brothers in arms alongside the way in which and studying a lot about himself.
Even Eric’s very first fight operation (which soar into within the first two minutes of this episode) was as chaotic as they get with a number of plane supporting his ODA going winchester (operating out of ammo) attempting to suppress the enemy. He can be concerned in operations we’ve heard of beforehand – in a single case carrying the our bodies of the troopers we misplaced in Extortion 17 – and plenty of occasions we have now not heard of, to incorporate one of many largest VBIEDs within the post-9/11 period on the ten 12 months anniversary of 9/11, that wounded over 70 troopers and native nationals.
Eric skilled a lot of this fight and loss in his mid-20s and, as he mentions, a few of these moments are nonetheless with him right now. It’s onerous to think about one individual might expertise this a lot fight in a single lifetime, not to mention in simply 4 years and I hope you take pleasure in this gauntlet of trial by hearth, actually, and the fight operations and insights he shares, as a lot as I did.
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Present Notes:
00:00 – Intro
01:01 – Visitor Introduction (Eric Neal)
02:25 – Interview begins
02:48 – Background with Darrell Utt
04:24 – Medal of Honor recipients earlier than award
06:17 – The significance of third Group
07:55 – First mission exterior the wire
21:27 – 4Patriots
24:29 – Childhood and becoming a member of the Army
30:00 – The Soccer Coach
34:54 – Path to Special Forces
39:42 – Fight Story Merch
39:58 – Gaining confidence
43:38 – The Q-course
49:34 – The drive for fight
50:58 – Hazing
56:13 – Loosing a workforce chief
59:01 – First deployment tales
01:03:14 – First deployment afterthoughts
01:04:49 – Second deployment
01:13:31 – Being on Comms throughout missions
01:15:16 – First mission again after IED
01:18:33 – A tragic state of affairs
01:33:05 – Second deployment afterthoughts
01:36:47 – Third deployment
01:40:56 – Coping with shedding teammates
01:42:20 – Fourth deployment
02:02:57 – Brave acts
02:06:56 – Sentimental Gadgets
02:08:17 – Would you do all of it once more
02:09:28 – Closing remarks
02:10:54 – Listener feedback and shout outs
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