MARSOC SERE Instructor Christian Holloway - Part One | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 142
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2023
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Eventually his experiences led him to becoming one of the earliest members of MARSOC, the Marine Special Operations Command that's now known as the Marine Raiders, where he found even more action from an entirely different side of the globe. That's why he's sitting down today to tell us all about it.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:05 - Why Are We Here?
10:08 - David Goggins Can't Hurt Me
17:03 - I Wanted to Fly Planes
23:33 - In Country, Out of Options
37:27 - The Craziest Gunfight I Got Into
47:52 - Everybody's Got a Plan Until First Contact
01:02:45 - They Weren't Pulling Pins
01:14:08 - Searching Bodies for Intel
01:22:47 - Post-Deployment Leave
01:28:32 - Second Deployment
01:47:49 - IED Developments
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| 0:00.0 | The Marine Corps, especially my unit, they weren't underestimating Saddam's army. |
| 0:06.5 | This is a formidable adversary. |
| 0:08.6 | Seventh, eighth largest army in the world or something like that. |
| 0:11.3 | They have T-55s, they've got T-72s, chemical and biological weapons. |
| 0:16.5 | We sat there for 60 days and it was brutal, man. |
| 0:19.3 | Everybody's got a plan until first contact, you know. |
| 0:21.7 | The Iraqi army was firing at known avenues of ingress. |
| 0:26.2 | It's kind of funny, you know, for Marines and going to combat, |
| 0:28.6 | no one in the big things is like, we want our combat action ribbon. |
| 0:31.2 | And we had our combat action ribbon in like the first couple minutes. |
| 0:34.8 | Watching an RPG come directly out, you know exactly what's happening. |
| 0:38.8 | Unfortunately for us, again, an experienced army, they weren't pulling pins. |
| 0:44.0 | So we were having impacts all around us. |
| 0:47.2 | We're just not going out. |
| 0:48.4 | Not going out. |
| 0:49.2 | Holy fuck. |
| 0:49.6 | Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant. |
| 1:02.0 | And we don't give a shit about your feelings. |
| 1:06.4 | Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest |
| 1:10.0 | to the podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | You spent 10 and a half years in the United States Marine Corps, |
| 1:13.7 | several of which as an infantryman, and then several of which as a Marsoct raider. |
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