Interpreting War: A Talk with Yousef Sediq

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Marcus Luttrell

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

America owes a great debt of gratitude to this week’s Team Never Quit Podcast guest, Yousef Sediq. Side by side with elite U.S. Special Forces, and as a commander in Task Force-241, Yousef was involved in countless raids, assisted in the capture of thousands of Taliban terrorists, and helped save the lives of innocent Afghan civilians. When Afghanistan fell once again to the Taliban, Yousef helped secure the Kabul Airport in an effort to evacuate Americans from the country. After a suicide bomber killed hundreds, including thirteen U.S. service members at the airport’s entrance, Yousef and his family were airlifted to the United States, where he was forced to start a new life.

In this episode you will hear:

I lost 2 of my younger sisters when they were little to starvation. We didn’t have enough food.
Every part of [Afghanistan] has their own leader, because of the different cultures and languages.
There were Afghans killing other Afghans. They would shoot at you for fun. It was their mentality to fight like pirates, sometimes shooting random people walking down the street.
They don’t want their people to be educated. Schools are locked down.
There is much religious manipulation (i.e. Holy wars; If you fight, you will go to heaven with 42 (or 72) virgins awaiting you.
I have studied it and nowhere in Islam does it say that if women have bare feet they should die. But people are uneducated, and nobody’s fighting them, and starvation is rampant.
There are people with no brains running the country.
I found work at 16 years old when I got a military job using a fake ID saying I was 18.
Intel is always taken seriously, even if it’s information from nowhere.
One of the main issues between Coalition forces and local Turks is a lack of trust.
I was blown up while working with the Canadians. We hit a roadside IED and I suffered a brain injury, resulting in lifelong brain seizures.
When that happened, I see the Angel of Death for a second, then I came back.
I wanted to stay in the fight.
Assign me wherever you want to assign me, send me to whatever base you want to send me, just give me good food and it doesn’t matter where you want to send me.
The media gives you what they want you to hear.
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0:22.3	All right everybody welcome back to the TNG Podcast. I'm your host Marcus Matrell.
0:27.9	Every week it's my job to fire you up to ignite the legend inside of you and to push you to your greatness.
0:33.9	Join me every week and I take you into my briefing room with some of the most
0:37.2	hard charge of people on the planet. They're going to show you how to embrace the stuff
0:41.1	to life, teach you the values of working your ass off, and charge through whatever life throws at you.
0:46.4	This is the Team Never Quip Podcast.
0:49.2	Don't buckle up buttercup.
0:58.1	What's going on everybody welcome back to another episode of the Team Never Quip Podcast.
1:02.5	We've got a great guest in store for you guys today but like we always do we kick things off
1:06.7	with a Patreon question of the day. Today's Patreon question today is what was the worst job
1:13.2	you have ever had? Worst job you've ever had.
1:17.2	Okay worst job I mean I've been working since I was a little kid that like very very young age
1:27.6	and I mean I've done very pretty worst jobs but I think the worst I mean the there's the worst
1:37.8	every one of them was a kind of life challenge and a step but I never looked at it to be honest as a
1:44.5	worse and favorite but you know that regular selling stuff like a vendor that was one of my kind of
1:53.6	if you can call it worse because that had a lot of more challenges compared to the other ones.
1:58.9	That would be hard. Yeah because you have the garment you have the cops chasing you around and
2:05.9	you're just a little kid and running around like done I had my stuff you know selling stuff I
2:12.2	don't have a court so I had this piece of cloth on the ground and then I put my stuff I was
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