#287 - Medal of Honor Recipient and Green Beret Earl D. Plumlee Shares His Story

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Earl D. Plumlee sits down with Evan Hafer of Black Rifle Coffee Co. and describes the events of the fateful day in Afghanistan when 200 well-armed Taliban fighters breached his base’s perimeter with a huge explosion before launching a massive and extended attack. On August 28, 2013, MSG Plumlee was serving as a weapons sergeant assigned to Charlie Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group at Forward Operating Base Ghazni. For his actions on that day, Plumlee was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2021. Find out how it went down from the man himself.

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0:00.0	Just statusing Army Achievement Medal, this is a medal of honor of it.
0:04.4	On the black market, incredibly valuable.
0:07.5	And what is it, a regular cycle?
0:09.4	Were you guys in a cadence?
0:10.5	Oh, yeah.
0:11.0	Really getting it on.
0:11.9	Gunfight will be today.
0:13.2	Yeah.
0:13.5	So as we pulled in, we pulled into basically a little half circle of Taliban fighters.
0:21.7	So I drew my pistol, hopped out of the truck, and just started closing the distance.
0:26.0	On this day, I was like, every time I was not dead, I kept being shocked that I was like, wow, I'm having a good day.
0:33.1	Or, you know, God takes care of drunks and fools and I'm dual quality.
0:39.0	The Black Wrenpple podcast starts now.
0:41.7	It's actually just the same case that every other metal comes in.
0:45.0	Uh-huh.
0:45.9	Instead of saying, Army of the Chief of Metal, it says metal of honor on it.
0:49.6	Same.
0:50.3	Yeah.
0:50.7	It's the same.
0:53.4	So they, you know, it's on the black market, incredibly valuable. Yeah. It's the same. So they, you know, it's on the black market, incredibly valuable.
0:58.0	And one of the recipients was like, well, I'm going to get insurance on this.
1:03.0	So they were trying to figure out how to assign value to it because if it gets stolen, what it would cost him.
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