#244 - Navy SEAL leaves ISIS Fight to Stop Burma Genocide | Ephraim Mattos

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🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 202 minutes

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(***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Ephraim Mattos is the East Asia Operations Manager for White Mountain Research and is the Founder and CEO of the Fireside Journal. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and went on to serve in the armed forces as a US Navy SEAL. EPISODE LINKS - PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey - MERCH: https://juliandorey.myshopify.com/ - AMAZON STORE: https://amzn.to/3RPu952 GUEST LINKS - IG: https://www.instagram.com/ephraimmattos/?hl=en - WEBSITE: https://strongholdrescue.org/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZ6QnPdHprxpt7njhHMyw2CiAuGfA1NtPcT33J8dLdZ3EvoqMadK6jb0Dw_aem_UGZH-q7yd-nMVmmpBrCdCA FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 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 ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Ephraim's Childhood 13:11 - Becoming a Navy SEAL 22:21 - Navy SEAL Boot Camp 34:23 - Graduating BUDs, SEAL Team 1 & Culture 41:40 - True Reality of War, Stephen Ambrose D-Day Book 52:45 - Afghanistan Deployment, Rules of Engagement 01:04:35 - Insane near-death story 01:13:11 - Most Intense Combat Firefight Mission Ever 01:25:23 - Ephraim leaves Navy SEALs 01:30:47 - The Rise of 1S*S; Tommy G 01:38:21 - Future after Navy SEALS; Ephraim deploys to Mosul, Iraq 01:49:51 - Terror Tunnels; Eddie Gallagher 01:58:33 - Mosul Chaos & IS*S Atrocities 02:07:37 - Ephraim shot by IS*S 02:17:40 - Aftermath of Ephraim's battlefield injury 02:26:23 - Andrew Bustamante & John Kiriakou; "Democracy" 02:36:01 - The Burma War 02:45:23 - China’s Relationship w/ Burma & Dark Underworld in Asia 02:57:11 - Ephraim at War w/ Burma Insurgency 03:16:47 - What Causes all War CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian Dorey - Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.instagram.com/allaman.docyou/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 244 - Ephraim Mattos Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	48 hours later, my second time in combat. We go out and we're just doing a presence patrol.
0:04.8	We come across a child's backpack on the side of the road.
0:07.2	Imagine just like a pink like door the explorer type backpack.
0:09.6	Had a bomb in it. Our dog, the dog caught it, blew it in place.
0:12.1	So this big explosion goes off. We blow the charge.
0:14.0	At this point, now the Taliban know exactly where we are.
0:16.3	And for whatever reason, this day, they decided to come out and fight. We intercepted radio traffic that they were going to come up and they were going to ambush us because they knew the route
0:23.8	that we were walking on. And so platoon leader and platoon chief, they were like, nah, we're going to
0:29.5	get there before them and we're going to ambush them. We get in position before the Taliban show up.
0:34.0	We get there. We get to this tree line. We line up. We're on the tree line. We're sitting there.
0:38.2	We're waiting. And then all of a sudden, you start seeing movement in this tree line that's maybe 25 yards away from us.
0:43.3	The next tree line over. And everyone's real quiet. And we're sitting there and we're waiting.
0:47.2	So my squad leader takes a 40 millimeter grenade launcher, shoots the tree and then I start hearing screaming from my left and I was like
0:56.0	oh that's the blood curdling scream of somebody
0:58.0	who's been
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