#233 - Army Commando, Col. Greg Gadson

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

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4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. Go to my sponsor https://aura.com/juliandorey to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed. (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Colonel Gregory Dimitri Gadson is an American actor and motivational speaker; and a retired colonel in the United States Army and former commander of the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir garrison. He is also a bilateral above-the-knee amputee. He served in the U.S. Army for 25 years of active duty as a field artillery officer. BUY COLONEL GADSON’S NEW BOOK: - Finding Waypoints: A Warrior's Journey Toward Peace and Purpose: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Waypoints-Warriors-Journey-Purpose/dp/163964024X EPISODE LINKS - Julian Dorey PODCAST MERCH: https://juliandorey.myshopify.com/ - Support our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey - BUY Guest’s Books & Films IN MY AMAZON STORE: https://amzn.to/3RPu952 FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “JULIANDOREY”): ⁠https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier⁠ ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Growing up in Virginia 07:01 - Attending West Point & Forced Service 17:31 - Change of US Military Post 9/11 26:45 - Serving in Operation Desert Storm, Kosovo War (Bosnian Genocide) 36:35 - Brink of Civil War? 48:34 - Military Industrial Complex Issues (Middle East Disaster) 54:11 - WW2 Comparisons to Today & Build Up to US Involvement (58:20: Jeese Fink Intro) 01:03:11 - Famous WW2 “Dead Body” Story, Col. Gadson Breaks Down D-Day 01:08:03 - US Almost Invaded Haiti Story & Where Col. Gadson was on 9/11 01:16:48 - Fighting in Afghanistan & Thoughts Behind Invasion 01:24:27 - Transferred to Iraq & People Dying Everyday 01:37:27 - Story of Middle Eastern Kids Seeing War 01:41:18 - Worst Day of Col. Gadson’s Life 01:51:26 - After IED Explosion 02:01:48 - Reuniting with Family & After Effects 02:06:34 - Connecting with NY Giants Football Team 02:22:31 - Role in Military after Accident & Movie Battleship/Coming to Peace w/ Accident 02:29:41 - Find Col Greg Gadson CREDITS: - Host, Producer, and Editor: Julian Dorey - In-Studio Producer: Alessi Allaman - https://www.instagram.com/allaman.docyou/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 233 - Colonel Greg Gadson Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I remember first Sergeant Johnson, I said, hey, sir, we got to go, we got to go.
0:03.6	I was like, okay, we're going to, we're going to go.
0:05.6	And so if I was time to go, I was in a, I say, melancholy disposition, because I was really just still kind of trying to process the death of these young men.
0:14.9	I'm like, we're making a difference over here.
0:17.4	I mean, we got guys getting killed every day.
0:19.9	And this is, there's all this
0:21.2	sacrifice worth it. These flood of thoughts are going through my head as I'm heading back
0:25.1	to my headquarters. And then it's like, I'm ram. You know, I got hit by a command detonated
0:30.0	ID. So when I say command detonated, this was triggered by someone. It wasn't buried and it wasn't
0:37.2	random. It was buried in the buried and it wasn't random.
0:37.7	It was buried in the ground and it was a wire to it
0:40.6	and there was a spotter and there was a trigger man
0:42.8	and when my vehicle went over it, they exploded.
0:46.0	How many guys run the vehicle?
0:47.3	Five of us.
0:48.1	The blast blew me out of the vehicle.
0:50.0	I remember kind of going through the air and hitting the ground.
0:53.4	My vehicle kind of continues, sputters on before it eventually stops, but I don't, I don't see it.
0:59.6	The last thing that I said, Julian, I said, God, I don't want to die here.
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