#059 - Ish Villegas - Silver Star Award Part 2

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Ish Villegas returns to share the story behind his actions that earned him a second Silver Star award. Jarred Taylor hosts as Ish describes the nonstop fighting that took place in Afghanistan from February 6th to February 24th 2011. From IEDs, rolled trucks, and gunshot wounds, to dropping thousands of pounds of ordinance on enemy positions, the story of Ish and his teammates is not to be missed.

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0:00.0	You have now entered Free Range American Podcast, presented by black rifle coffee.com.
0:14.3	What's up?
0:15.6	Ladies and gentlemen, oh my, we are back.
0:20.3	We're back again for round two.
0:22.9	We told you guys, like, there was going to be a two.
0:27.5	Because you got two silver stars.
0:30.3	Not a lot of people have two of them.
0:34.8	Do people question you when you say you need a device for your Silver Star when
0:39.2	you went to buy that at clothing sales? You know, I actually got them from a place in Oklahoma,
0:47.5	and they actually called me to confirm that I can do. You're like, hey, you had an oak leaf cluster on your silver star.
0:56.6	Yeah.
0:57.2	Is that a typo?
0:58.4	You're like, nah.
1:00.5	Well, they didn't believe the first one.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.6	I mean, an interesting day, too.
1:06.3	It's September 11th.
1:07.5	Yeah.
1:09.8	We're also five days away from the 10-year anniversary of a friend of both of ours, Mr. Danny Sanchez, senior
1:16.9	airman Danny Sanchez.
1:18.6	Did you know?
1:19.8	I did not know him, but I knew him in reputation.
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