BEIRUT Chapter 35 Sneak Peek

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The first of Jack’s new non-fiction series, TARGETED, is available NOW! This is the first in a new series written with Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott exploring history’s most devastating terrorist attacks and their enduring global impacts. This inaugural installment of TARGETED delves into the tragic events of October 23, 1983, when terrorists struck the U.S. Marine Corps barracks and headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and resulted in the Marines greatest single-day loss of life since the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Join Jack in reflecting on the lessons of this pivotal moment in American history by listening to Chapter 35 of TARGETED: BEIRUT - THE 1983 MARINE BARRACKS BOMBING AND THE UNTOLD ORIGIN STORY OF THE WAR ON TERROR, narrated by Ray Porter. There are lessons in the pages of history. Order your copy of TARGETED: BEIRUT HERE. Buy the audiobook https://bit.ly/TargetedBeirutAudio Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from TARGETED: BEIRUT by Jack Carr and James M. Scott, read by Ray Porter. Copyright © 2024 by Rainsford Consulting LLC. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. SPONSORS: TARGETED: BERUIT The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror – https://www.officialjackcarr.com/books/targeted-beirut/ Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web at http://jackcarr.co/bcm and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA.com SIG: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the legendary SIG SAUER P226. Learn more here - https://jackcarr.co/SIG40thP226 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://shop.officialjackcarr.com/

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0:00.0	Chapter 35
0:03.0	We just got on top of that rubble and listened for people.
0:06.0	We would see an arm sticking out or a leg sticking out and we started digging and pulling them out.
0:11.0	Mark Singleton, December 21st, 2022.
0:16.8	Commodore France ordered a medical team ashore from the Iwo Jima and
0:20.4	activated two additional ones from the battleship New Jersey and the guided missile
0:24.7	cruiser Virginia.
0:26.8	Sailors from the tank landing ship Harlan County and the dock landing ship Portland would likewise
0:31.2	help dig out survivors.
0:33.0	France recalled the Austin from a port visit to Alexandria, Egypt,
0:38.0	and requested medical evacuations to hospitals in Cyprus and Germany.
0:42.0	Extent of casualties, he concluded. hospitals in Cyprus and Germany.
0:43.0	Extentive casualties, he concluded in a message to Washington unknown.
0:49.5	First Lieutenant Anthony Pice, who flew with the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 162, was asleep
0:55.6	on the Iwo Jima that Sunday when the sound of chains being dragged across the flight deck,
1:00.5	roused him.
1:02.1	The Baltimore native and graduate of the Virginia Military
1:04.8	Institute, whose father served as a guard in the Nuremberg trials, was still
1:09.5	in his rack when the squadron duty officer burst into his state room.
1:13.0	Get up, he said.
1:15.0	The BLT's been hit.
1:17.0	So what's new? Pays equipped, noting that the building always drew fire.
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