#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

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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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	Uh-huh.
0:01.0	Instead of saying, I'm going to get you a medal, this is a medal of honor of it.
0:04.5	On the black market, incredibly valuable.
0:07.4	And uh...
0:08.4	What is a regular cycle?
0:09.4	Were you guys in a cadence?
0:10.4	Oh, yeah.
0:11.4	I was like, really getting it on.
0:12.4	Gun fight will be today.
0:13.4	Yeah.
0:14.4	So as we pulled in, we pulled into a, uh, basically a, like a little half circle of, um,
0:20.9	Taliban fighters.
0:21.9	So I drew my pistol, hopped out of the truck, and just started closing the distance.
0:25.9	The, on this day, I kept being, I was like, every time I was not dead, I kept going,
0:29.9	I kept being shocked that I was like, wow, I'm having a good day.
0:33.4	Or, you know, God takes care of drunks and fools, and I'm dual quality.
0:39.5	Black rifle podcast starts now.
0:41.8	It's actually just the same case that every other medal comes in.
0:45.4	Uh-huh.
0:46.4	Instead of saying, I'm going to get you a medal, this is a medal of honor of it.
0:49.4	It's same.
0:50.4	Yeah.
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