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Hammer Lane Legends

BACK IT UP | 12: Mortar Attacks In Iraq

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Today in episode 12, "Mortar Attacks In Iraq," we talk with Matt who was a U.S. Army Transportation Commander for over a year in Iraq. Matt heard Sam's stories from episode 2 and thought he could lend some confirmation to Sam's stories but from the military's perspectives!

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0:00.0

Merkel

0:02.0

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0:04.0

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Media Welcome to Back It Up Fridays with Hammer Lane Legends.

0:38.4

I'm your host, Jack Merkel.

0:40.0

I'm here to bring you the goods on a Friday.

0:43.1

Hopefully you're getting ready for the weekend.

0:44.9

I know I'm ready.

0:46.1

Let's get into it.

0:47.1

I'm backing it all...

0:47.9

I am backing it all the way up to episode 12 today.

0:51.8

Yes, episode 12, long time ago. Mortar attacks in Iraq. This is with

0:57.3

Commander Matt. It was awesome. It was great to have him on. He was a U.S. Army

1:02.8

transporter, or I'm sorry, a U.S. Army Transportation commander for over a year in Iraq.

1:09.6

You know, the stories he had, he pretty much wanted to lend his

1:12.0

confirmation to the stories that Sam had from episode two. And he also had his own, you know,

1:18.4

stories that he shared as well from his time over there, how he got into driving, what he drove.

1:24.3

He went into different, you know, perspectives and stories from a military,

1:29.3

you know, sort of perspective of what Sam had talked about. Just how they transported things,

1:35.2

it was such a good show. As we kind of expect, every time we talk about these sort of stories,

1:41.4

you know, most of these guys who are doing these sort of, you know,

1:46.4

convoys that were overseas, I mean, it's intense. And there's a lot going on. And you have to be

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