#059 - Ish Villegas - Silver Star Award Part 2

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Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

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 look now into free-range Americans podcast presented by BlackrightfulCoffee.com.
0:14.7	What's up ladies and gentlemen, oh my we are back.
0:20.4	We're back again.
0:22.0	For round two we told you guys like there was gonna be a two and because you got two silver
0:29.5	stars.
0:30.5	There's not a lot of people have that have two of them.
0:34.7	Like the people question you when you say you need a device for your silver star when
0:39.2	you want to buy that at Clothing Stills.
0:42.4	You know I actually got them from a place in Oklahoma and they actually called me to confirm
0:51.5	that I could.
0:52.5	You like hey you had an Oakleaf cluster on your silver star.
0:57.3	Is that a typo?
0:58.3	You like nah.
0:59.3	They didn't believe the first one.
1:03.3	I mean an interesting day too.
1:06.3	It's September 11th.
1:10.2	We're also five days away from the 10 year anniversary of a friend of both of ours.
1:15.5	Mr. Danny Sanchez, senior him and Danny Sanchez.
1:18.3	Did you know?
1:19.8	I did not know him but I knew him in reputation.
1:24.2	Yeah.
1:25.2	Because you showed up to his unit shortly after.
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