#089 - Ethan Nagel - The Old Breed Part 2

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Logan Stark continues his conversation with Ethan Nagel started in Episode 88. Ethan walks Logan and our listeners through the events that took place in July of 2009 in Afghanistan that led to Ethan’s Silver Star —the United States Armed Forces third-highest personal decoration for valor in combat.

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0:00.0	He ended up going with 16, and I wait into the Hellman push and just those guys were fucking
0:21.3	ripping it up.
0:22.5	Which is the same thing that I remember my recruiter telling me about Afghanistan is like,
0:27.9	oh yeah, I want to Afghanistan.
0:30.4	So like those guys don't know what they're doing.
0:33.6	Like basically like shooting hot potatoes at like there was no like sense of you got to
0:44.9	be prepared for this was like it was the talk was it was a joke until about Lato 708.
0:53.4	Well, even if you were there, so we had a lead into the conversation.
0:57.8	So my buddy was one of the earliest ETTs, the embedded trainer teams, and it was a buzz
1:03.6	saw like 0506.
1:04.7	And if you talked to like the army units that were there, I mean, it was they were dealing
1:08.7	with the corn, they were dealing with like no one was in Hellman, the British right?
1:12.5	Right, right.
1:13.5	Yeah.
1:14.5	And when I say that, I mean the Marine Corps.
1:15.5	Yeah, the Marine Corps, I know I agree with that.
1:16.4	So I'm saying it's like no one knew like unless you'd been there, it wasn't even on
1:19.9	the news.
1:20.9	Like you didn't know one new.
1:21.9	Like so like that's when I told my brother, I'm like, you're going to be a boot.
1:24.8	He ended up going into like the like heaviest fighting, reinvading, Hellman province.
1:29.9	And they're like his whole company was almost black on ammo.
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