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Hammer Lane Legends

134: Explosions In Afghanistan | Part 2

Hammer Lane Legends

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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In episode 134: Explosions In Afghanistan | Part 2; Brian and Shipper are joined by Ben for his follow up interview! Ben's stories are so full of INCREDIBLY improbable events, while being unbelievably interesting. This time Ben wraps up some of the stories from Part 1, while jumping right in to some of the most intense and surprising stories from his time in service. This includes Mamba-17, which was so crazy, for lack of a better word. Thanks so much to all of you listening! We hope you enjoy this show!

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0:00.0

Merkel

0:02.3

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0:04.4

And so that meant the Italians had to escort our record to us, which means they had to go through that village that hit us with a rocket and everything.

0:18.3

Right.

0:18.9

Italians got hit with six IEDs.

0:21.6

Wow.

0:22.7

On their way to us.

0:24.9

And they said, we can't go any farther.

0:28.9

You're on your own.

0:30.9

And dude, like a man, Kip literally drove through that village all the way to us.

0:39.5

I can't freaking believe it, man.

0:48.3

He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,

0:53.3

crossed the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the car, crossed the front of it,

0:54.3

and jump right up the side of the bridge in front of you.

0:57.0

The only people who really pulled over were truckers.

1:00.0

He said, we're going hot, and he didn't slow down.

1:03.0

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,

1:07.0

but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.

1:11.6

I noticed his plane was really low.

1:14.6

He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around.

1:18.6

You know, 30 seconds north he could have hit us.

1:22.6

And I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood and shot through my window just like a spear and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck.

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