GRP 112-Silence and Light: The story of a special operations rock band

Global Recon

John Hendricks

Government

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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GRP 112-Silence and Light: The story of a special operations rock band We have two great guests on for this week’s podcast. They are both veterans of the special operations community and members of a band called Silence and Light. J Bradford is a retired Army Special Missions operator who first saw combat in Mogadishu, Somalia during the Black Hawk Down incident as a young Ranger. Shortly before 9/11 he went onto try out and get selected to serve in the Army’s Special Missions unit where he served for over 10 years. Tyson is a retired Marine Raider Officer with multiple rotations into combat. We talked about the band including the other members who were not on for this podcast. Jason Everman was a member of Sound Garden, and Nirvana before he joined the Army and became a Special Forces Green Beret. We touched on the stresses of combat among several other subjects. Enjoy. 0:00-Scot Spooner intro 4:56-J Bradford’s and Tyson’s musical backgrounds. 9:15-Combat stress 21:53- J Bradford’s military background. October 1993 Mogadishu, Somalia. Tyson’s military background. 41:28-Military specialties and combat applications Follow my co-host and my pages on social media. Links below. Follow J Bradford on Instagram at www.instagram.com/jbradford_official Follow Tyson on Instagram at: www.instagram.com/Stahler_61 Global Recon: www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/blackopsmatter www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/ HP Lefler: https://www.instagram.com/4runner.freyja Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv Music provided by Caspian: www.caspianmusic.net

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The People ask me, how was it when I got out?
0:34.0	You know, because when you leave an institution, it's like leaving the joint.
0:37.3	When you leave the military, I would assume it's like leaving the joint.
0:39.8	It really is, and I don't say that tongue and cheek, because first everybody tells you you
0:43.4	you're crazy, everybody tells you you're stupid, and then you leave and you're gone for a couple
0:46.6	months, and then they call you and go, hey, what's it like?
0:49.5	You know, what's it like out there?
1:06.0	Yeah. What's it like out there? You know, I finally got my response, and my response was this. It sounds pretty, you know, it sounds pretty hokey.
1:09.0	But the truth is, I know, I now know what it means to be an American.
1:22.5	You know, it's a good deal being a civilian in this country.
1:28.8	I never knew what that was.
1:31.4	And I don't see that lightly.
1:33.8	I place myself in units with jobs that for my entire life,
1:39.5	I was chained to that unit and that job.
1:42.1	Everything that I did was scrutinized, not just by the private sector, but by the unit
1:47.4	and that job.
1:48.7	I was not free to come and go as I please.
1:51.2	I was not free to make as much money as I wanted to for as much work as I chose.
1:55.4	I was not free to speak freely.
1:58.2	It was not free to do any of that.
2:00.3	I sacrificed all that in order to do my job,
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