Exonerated Major Fred Galvin | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 116
Mike Drop
Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2022
⏱️ 181 minutes
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Summary
Major Fred Galvin is a retired Marine Corps Major who served as an enlisted Marine and officer for over 26 years. He served on multiple combat deployments in Afghanistan, including where he commanded the Marine Corps’ first Special Operations Task Force. He's also been painted as the "posterboy for the largest mass murder in U.S. Military History." Since then, he's fought for the freedom of every single marine that was under his command that day - to exonerate the men who volunteered to lay down their lives for their country and restore their reputations, even at the cost of his own career. So how did he do it? What happened that day? And most importantly - who's telling the truth? Fortunately for Mike, Fred's got the answers.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
04:00 - A Few Bad Men
12:00 - Double Jeopardy
16:00 - Daily Routine
20:00 - Kansas Roots
25:00 - A Brand New Marine
29:00 - Penny Stocks
32:30 - Back In at 25
37:00 - Force Recon Okinawa
46:00 - Yuma, Arizona
53:30 - Marine Special Operations
1:03:00 - Firefight Stories
1:11:00 - Backstabbed
1:21:00 - Corruption in the System
1:35:00 - There's Money in Wargames
1:41:00 - Retelling The Incident
1:59:00 - They're Saying You Did Something
2:09:00 - Guilty Until Proven Innocent
2:13:00 - Acquittal By Night
2:20:00 - Willing to Sacrifice Lives
2:30:00 - 'They Acted Appropriately'
2:38:00 - Finding Tesla
2:52:00 - The MARSOC 3
2:58:00 - Filthy Fred
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Book - 'A Few Bad Men' by Fred Galvin: https://amzn.to/3sd3P8F
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| 0:00.0 | As soon as we get back on the base, the gunnery sergeant comes up to us and says, |
| 0:04.8 | sir, it's already out there on the BBC radio that you guys have killed women, killed civilians. |
| 0:10.2 | And then we start getting this dog piled, New York Times, everybody, |
| 0:18.7 | green slaughter, you know, men, women, children, Afghans, or testimony, they're saying that we were drunk. |
| 0:26.2 | This is a story about our nation's largest employer and the abuse of power that those leaders in charge have done. |
| 0:33.6 | They said that we were drunk and we used slingshots, pull a pin on a hand grenade, put it into a slingshot, |
| 0:42.6 | and you're on top of a turret and fire it. They said that we did that to make it look. |
| 0:47.2 | That we staged this explosive device and that we were drunk after that and we went door to door, |
| 0:54.0 | sport killing literally, they said, men, women, children, farm animals. |
| 0:59.5 | And then we went back later to cover it up. |
| 1:11.7 | Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings. |
| 1:18.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast. |
| 1:25.2 | He spent almost 27 years in the United States Marine Corps first as enlisted in an officer, |
| 1:31.1 | a classic Mustang. He led the first Marsoct team into Afghanistan. He was accused of war crimes |
| 1:38.0 | and then eventually acquitted. He's the author of A Few Bad Men, which I promise is not in the |
| 1:44.0 | marriage counseling section of Barnes & Noble. He did write the book on How Uncle Sam |
| 1:48.8 | fucks you in the drive through ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the stage, major Fred Galvin. |
| 1:53.8 | Thanks for having me here Mike. Thanks for coming. What is your favorite childhood memory? |
| 2:01.2 | I think grown up there in the eastern Kansas, western Missouri area. It was wide open prairies and |
| 2:06.5 | I think just spent a lot of time down and we had this river, the little river at a small Irish family of six kids. |
| 2:15.5 | So we did a lot of exploring. Unfortunately, that's not the way America is today in a lot of locations. |
| 2:24.0 | But I really love spending that time in nature. Every time I get an opportunity, no matter where I'm |
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