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Global Recon

GRP 128-The 20 Year Journey of a Navy SEAL Sniper: Jack Carr

Global Recon

John Hendricks

Government

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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GRP 128-The 20 Year Journey of a Navy SEAL Sniper: Jack Carr On for this week’s podcast is former Navy SEAL Officer turned author Jack Carr. He led special operations teams as a Team Leader, Platoon Commander, Troop Commander and Task Unit Commander. Over his 20 years in Naval Special Warfare he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper specializing in communications and intelligence, to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was on a pre 9/11 training deployment on Guam when the Twin Towers were hit. His team immediately deployed to the middle east to take over ship take down operations against Saddam Hussein from SEAL Team 3 who rotated into Afghanistan. Jack has written a fictional novel called “The Terminal List” and has a second book on the way called “True Believer”. Enjoy. 0:00- My friend Kevin Lacz speaking on the incident in which Marc Lee was killed in action in Iraq. Marc was the first SEAL killed during the Iraq war. 14:02-Naval Special Warfare Sniper, Employment of Snipers on the battlefield. 21:35-Sri Lanka, Global terrorism 40:15-Having a family at home while deploying into combat over a 20-year career I Want to give a quick thank you to our sponsor Blinkist- is the only app that takes the best key takeaways, the need-to-know information from thousands of nonfiction books and condenses them down into just 15 minutes so you can read -or- listen to. Go to www.Blinkist.com/Recon for a free 7 day trial. You can keep up with Jack Carr here: https://officialjackcarr.com Follow Global Recon below:   www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/blackopsmatter www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/   Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv   Tim Kolczak:
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0:00.0

So we get up to the target, the Bradley maneuvered into position, and there's like, this tank round just flies out of nowhere and then you start to hear like

0:22.6

tink tink tink tink and the ramp goes down and we peel out and i've ran towards the target building

0:29.3

and as i like clear all the stuff there's smoke and stuff and i just get this weird feeling like

0:34.7

not everybody's with me so i kind of like take a knee and i'm waiting. Nobody's running by me and I'm realizing you hear like snap, snap, snap. And then all of a sudden like I get the squeeze in this work behind me. So we go up to the front door. So I ran up, kicked it open and it propels me past the first two rooms. I'm like on my gun the whole time and I just give the gun upstairs.

0:54.8

And as me and Chuckie get to the top of the stairs, this machine gun fire just comes in, dude, and it comes in heavy. You could tell it was really close. And all of a sudden you hear man down, like dire man down. And then he goes, we need a foreman down here now. So I just, it's like three bounds down the stairs and I get down to the stairwell as we're coming down I go to

0:54.2

grab mark and another bunch of machine gun fire comes down through there. So I kind of like duck out of the way, and Mark is, dude, he's down. And Nick, our EOD guys, returning fire, I catch Nick's eye. It looked like sheer terror, the look that he gave me. So grab Mark,

1:29.7

and I drug him around that little alcove, and I just started cutting Mark's gear off. You know,

1:34.4

it was pretty apparent that he took one round right to the teeth. I could see the whole left side

1:39.1

was already bruising. You could see it all on his cheek um his face was like white and mark was tan

1:45.9

i get the gear off and dude i'm just doing like a quick assessment and dude there's nothing in

1:53.2

i was like we need a kazevac now it's like all right it's outside so i go and i sling mark up on

1:57.8

there and i start carrying him dude dude. And it, it's heavy.

2:04.8

You know what I mean?

2:09.3

Welcome to the Global Recon podcast.

2:11.6

I'm your host, John Hendricks.

2:13.5

I have a special guest on with me today.

2:16.1

I've retired Navy SEAL and author Jack Carr.

2:20.2

Jack, how's it going?

2:21.3

It is going great.

2:22.5

Thank you so much for having me on today.

2:24.8

Yeah, I'm glad we were finally able to catch up and do this.

2:28.9

I got a lot I'd like to talk to you about, including your novels your novels and, and what you have, what you're

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