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319: "Shut Up and Return Fire" with Admiral Thomas "The Hulk" Richards.

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4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 257 minutes

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Summary

0:00:00 - Opening

0:11:21 - Admiral Thomas "The Hulk" Richards

3:31:23 - Final Thoughts

3:45:18 - How to stay on THE PATH.

4:14:04 - Closing gratitude.



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0:00.0

This is Jockel Podcast number 319 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

0:05.2

Good evening, I go. Good evening. As the seals inserted into a rice patty near

0:11.4

where they had taken fire, Carl Nelson's UH1BC Wolf gunship commenced a

0:17.0

right turn at 80 feet above the ground to cover them. His co-pilot, Earl

0:22.3

Schott, worked the LZ's edge with his mini guns, Wallace Gunners, Petty

0:27.1

officers Michael Dobson and Tom Klaive on fired their M60s. The seals

0:33.4

patrolled northeast and then east on a dike separating the two rice patties and

0:38.0

then moved north on one perpendicular to the first. As they advanced, the enemy

0:44.4

began firing from well concealed and dug-in positions on a dike covered with

0:49.0

heavy vegetation. The seals and Nelson's gunship immediately returned fire.

0:54.6

As the patrol continued closer toward the tree line, the seals took accurate

0:59.1

withering fire from both sides of the dike. Point man James Rowland fell,

1:04.7

shot through the groin. He was hit again as he crawled for cover. Seconds later

1:09.8

the platoon commander Grant Telfer were shot in both legs. Both seals managed

1:15.2

to return fired despite their wounds, but the severity of their injuries and

1:19.2

the immediate necessity to extract them soon took them out of action.

1:26.9

Lieutenant JG Tom Richards immediately raided Carl Nelson and his sea wolf for

1:31.8

fire support as he and his fellow seal Gary Lawrence advanced under fire to

1:37.0

assist the two seriously wounded seals. As he dragged Rowland to cover, one round

1:42.4

passed through Richards' right hand hitting the stoner's pistol grip. Nevertheless,

1:47.4

while Lawrence, Wendell Hedge and Donald Foutrell returned fire, Richards

1:53.0

continued to expose himself to enemy fire to drag the wounded to cover.

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