IMBEDDED ENEMY: THE INSIDER THREAT by COMMAND SGT. MAJ BART WOMACK TERROR ON OUR BASES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Interview with Command Sgt. Maj. Bart Womack

New Book- IMBEDDEDD ENEMY

Shortly after deploying for the war in Iraq, an unprecedented attack was about to take place; the first of it's kind in U.S. military history. Embedded Enemy is the true story of the deadly attack against the men and women of Headquarters and Headquarters Company First Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. The Bastogne Brigade was staged at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait where they prepared for combat. During the early morning hours of 23 March 2003, a fellow American soldier, Sergeant Hasan Akbar, executed the unthinkable by throwing hand grenades into his Chain of Command's tents. He then followed up with small-arms fire while his Commanding Officers slept in preparation for war.Shortly after deploying for the war in Iraq, an unprecedented attack was about to take place; the first of it's kind in U.S. military history. Embedded Enemy is the true story of the deadly attack against the men and women of Headquarters and Headquarters Company First Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. The Bastogne Brigade was staged at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait where they prepared for combat. During the early morning hours of 23 March 2003, a fellow American soldier, Sergeant Hasan Akbar, executed the unthinkable by throwing hand grenades into his Chain of Command's tents. He then followed up with small-arms fire while his Commanding Officers slept in preparation for war.

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0:00.0	The Podcast Team, 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries, and Mysteries.
0:37.6	Congratulations on building an amazing podcast providing to your audience.
0:42.3	I am Command Sergeant Major Bart Womack, U.S. Army retired,
0:46.5	a thought leader and speaker on situational awareness security to mitigate mass shooter
0:51.4	and insider threat attacks.
0:54.1	I'm a survivor of the March 23rd, 2003 Insider Threat. to mitigate mass shooter and insider threat attacks.
1:00.9	I'm a survivor of the March 23rd, 2003 insider threat terrorist attack against the famed 1001st Airborne Division by a radicalized extremist American soldier.
1:06.3	The deadly attack killed two and wounded 13 others.
1:10.2	The attacker currently sits on death row at the United States disciplinary barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
1:16.8	The story is chronicled in the book that I authored, Embedded Enemy.
1:21.5	Thank you for considering my participation, best part.
1:25.9	Bart Womack, great to have you with us today
1:28.0	1001 heroes thanks for being here
1:29.9	I appreciate you having it John thank you
1:32.4	please tell us obviously we see what the event was
1:36.4	the idea was that sparked this book
1:38.3	why don't you describe your situation
1:41.5	at that time what exactly happened and then why you did decide to write the book
1:46.6	about it. Okay. So we were deployed from the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Camden, Kentucky,
1:53.6	to Kuwait, which is our intermediate staging base. And from there, we would cross the border
1:59.6	and go into Iraq once our orders
2:01.9	said that our unit was to do that. Obviously, there was several units throughout the United States
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