Former Chief of Ground Branch | Don Parnell | Ep. 335
The Team House
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
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Summary
The Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the highest award given by CIA for extraordinary valor/heroism
The Distinguished Intelligence Star, the 2nd highest award given for voluntary acts of courage
The Wazir Akbar Khan Medal, awarded by Afghanistan President Karzai.
The Career Intelligence Medal, for distinguished career service.
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| 0:00.0 | It was a supposed to be kind of a quiet day. |
| 0:03.0 | We were kind of in the process of we were in the process of having the Taliban come into our village and we were going to negotiate the peace with Kandahar with them. |
| 0:13.0 | Of course, Karzai was with us. |
| 0:15.0 | And then this happened. |
| 0:17.0 | So it was really a setback. |
| 0:19.0 | Karzai was lightly wounded. It's superficial, |
| 0:23.6 | but, you know, of course, he could have been killed and that would have really turned things in a different direction. |
| 0:29.6 | It was just a really bad day. And because we, you know, it's obviously friendly fire. I i don't know i don't really like the term |
| 0:40.1 | too much for any fire it's anything but it hurts just as much but i i had never been at ground zero |
| 0:46.1 | of a two thousand pound jadam uh i hope i never am again uh it was it was it was it was it was |
| 0:53.2 | it was it was it was it was a day to change the rest of my life about |
| 0:55.7 | about how far away from the impact do you think you were I was in the little building |
| 1:00.8 | but there was a big plexiglass window in front of me I was actually sitting on a on a foot |
| 1:06.9 | locker starting to work on my laptop and types some things out so all the frag came in that |
| 1:13.2 | window and it's a pretty good size window is probably about 10 or 12 feet wide about and so that didn't |
| 1:20.0 | help uh and that was that that that there's man 50 meters 40 yards right outside my window so it was |
| 1:25.9 | very close i can yeah i yeah, I can just go baseball. |
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