GRP 155-Men should strive to think much and know little: A Conversation with a Special Missions Operator
Global Recon
John Hendricks
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Episode Summary
My guest for this week's podcast is retired U.S. Army Special Missions Sergeant Major Dan Ibach. SGM Ibach served for 21 years, seven of those at the 75th Ranger Regiment and fourteen at the Tier 1 Unit. During a deployment to Iraq, Dan was severely wounded when his vehicle drove over an Improvised Explosive Device, killing half of his team.
A month later, he would wake up from a coma, rejoin the Unit, and continue to deploy into combat.
Ibach was assigned to the United Kingdom's 22nd Special Air Service Regiment as a liaison from the Unit. We discussed hostage rescue, tracking Qasem Soleimani, and much more. Enjoy
Main Episode Takeaways
- Surviving a catastrophic brain injury
- Hostage Rescue
- Assignment to A Squadron 22 SAS
- Hunting Qasem Soleimani
- Special Operations K9's
- Archon Ready Group
- GRIZ Global Solutions
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, Leeland. |
| 0:02.0 | Evening, Shannon, to you. |
| 0:04.0 | And we're learning a lot more about that operation from the beginning to the end. |
| 0:08.0 | It resulted in the death of Qasem Soleimani. |
| 0:10.0 | It went far beyond a drone strike and included U.S. Army Special Operations soldiers on the ground that actually followed his convoy. |
| 0:18.0 | Half a mile behind when the missile from the Reaper drone hit, they were on the scene |
| 0:23.6 | within a minute or two. |
| 0:25.6 | Immediately following the drone strike they did, what in the business is called a bomb damage assessment |
| 0:30.6 | and took pictures of the scene, along with confirming that the drone got the right car car and Soleimani was dead. |
| 0:43.8 | Many of the pictures we have obtained include graphic and close-up pictures of the Iranian general's body. |
| 0:46.7 | We're not going to show you those tonight. They're simply too gruesome. |
| 0:49.6 | He is missing limbs and is grossly disfigured. A source who both served in Iraq and saw the pictures noted that Soleimani died in much the same way the Americans he killed died. |
| 0:59.0 | Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted and brutal terrorist, dead after a daring raid by the elite U.S. to force. |
| 1:09.0 | He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization |
| 1:14.6 | anywhere in the world. |
| 1:16.4 | 5 p.m. Saturday night, President Trump flanked by Vice President Pence, |
| 1:21.6 | National Security Advisor O'Brien and Defense Secretary Esper, |
| 1:25.8 | gathering in the situation room with military brass, including |
| 1:29.7 | the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, all watching a live step-by-step feed of the mission. |
| 1:37.3 | Eight Chinook helicopters took off on the secret mission from a Kurdish-controlled area in Iraq, |
| 1:43.3 | flying low and taking on gunfire before landing |
| 1:46.8 | in northern Syria. Baghdadi fled into an underground tunnel with three children. The president |
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