#254 - "REAPER" Sniper on the Bloodiest 5 Days in Afghanistan | Nick Irving

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 150 minutes

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WATCH PREVIOUS EPISODE w/ Nicholas Irving: https://youtu.be/HevUhJjolB4 (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Nicholas Irving 'The Reaper' is an American author and former soldier. He was a special operations sniper in the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the U.S. Army. PATREON https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey NICK LINKS BOOK 1: https://www.amazon.com/Reaper-Autobiography-Deadliest-Special-Snipers/dp/1250080606 BOOK 2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9YNT6T?plink=GmU1SUhQkWbgFt4z&pf_rd_r=31WN1SFB91BP0BSKEDTK&pf_rd_p=fe481a04-2a3d-4d8f-9976-3312f3fd8e70&ref_=adblp13nvvxx_0_1_im IG: https://www.instagram.com/officialreaper33/ X: https://x.com/irving_nicholas LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Gnarliest Deployment, 1 Goal in Mind, Most Dangerous Battle Ground 09:02 - Terrified of Dogs, Opium/Drug Issues Today & Connections 17:47 - Drone Warfare vs Sniper Tactics 26:39 - Nick’s Colleague & Him Sniping Enemies Down 38:21 - Emotional Roller Coaster of Emotions, Getting Title by Rangers 46:17 - Bolt Action Guns (Pemberton Getting Jammed 56:31 - Most Intense Operation (Near Death) 01:12:01 - Accepting Death in Firefight, Taking the Fire from ‘The Chechen’ 01:25:37 - Ordered to take out ‘The Checen’ Sniper, Gory War & Safe House 01:35:06 - Evacuation Starts & Marine’s Recovering Them, Immediate PTSD 01:46:29 - Benjamin Cops Legacy, Going Out that Same Night in Kandahar 02:01:00 - Beginning to Leave Army, Wife Finding out Nick’s Reputation 02:09:31 - Becoming a Private Contractor & Leaving, Baghdad Operations 02:16:53 - Officially Leaving & What’s Next, Familial Complications 02:29:49 - Reflecting on Fall of Afghanistan, Pointless Wars CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian D. Dorey - In-Studio Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@alessiallaman Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 254 - Nicholas Irving Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	By now the sun is just about almost all the way over the horizon.
0:04.0	And I'm like, this is, this is gonna be bad, man.
0:07.0	People are starting to come out and interact and I see this moped with two guys on it.
0:12.0	They're coming into, or up the road into the area where the objective is at,
0:16.0	and I take my red dot laser and I put it on the guy's chest and he stops his bike and he looks down
0:21.8	looks up he can't see it's pretty concealed in the tall grass and stuff and he's looking but I just
0:27.1	have this like never forget to look in his eyes of like disdain angry empty look like okay he backed up
0:33.5	to the Ui went back to wherever he came from that's when the sniper or the reconnaissance team lead was like, he just said, I got a bad
0:41.1	feeling about this.
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0:54.6	X by using the links in my description. Thank you. All righty. Let's get into it. Afghanistan
1:01.2	09. It's your at that point, third time, third deployment in Afghanistan?
1:08.6	Fourth deployment. Oh, to Afghanistan? Yeah. That was my was my yeah third deployment to Afghanistan okay
1:14.5	yeah was it yeah third deployment now this is the one where you know some people online who
1:21.4	have heard you on Sean Ryan I've heard John Vlad over the years I've heard you talk on some other
1:26.1	platforms like this is where the shit. I've heard you talk on some other platforms like,
1:27.5	this is where the shit popped off and where you became the Reaper.
1:33.0	Yeah. Yeah, man.
1:34.6	That was a, let's say, I forget the month we deployed.
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