Medal of Honor Recipient Florent Groberg | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 107
Mike Drop
Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mike Drop, Florent Groberg opens up about his childhood as a French immigrant and shares stories from his time serving in the United States Army. He dives deep into the incident on Aug 8, 2012 for which he was ultimately awarded the Medal of Honor.
Read more on Florent Groberg - https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/groberg/
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:38 - Lightning Round
30:42 - Childhood
47:38 - Joining The Army
52:49 - OCS
58:31 - Ranger School
1:07:29 - First Deployment
1:16:50 - Sponsors
1:24:18 - Mission Objectives
1:28:37 - 50 Cal
1:39:37 - Executive Officer
1:46:07 - Aug 8, 2012
2:16:13 - Recovery
2:18:59 - Medal of Honor
2:37:27 - Moving Forward
2:38:33 - Warriors Ethos / Bravo Sierra
Support: Florent Groberg
Website: https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/groberg/
Instagram: @florent.groberg - https://www.instagram.com/florent.groberg/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you could just kind of synopsize from when you came back and ultimately when you got |
| 0:05.7 | into the engagement that the Medal of Honor incident takes place. |
| 0:10.3 | To me, August 8th, 2012 is the exact definition of what war is. |
| 0:14.0 | It is unfair, it's unpredictable, and evil is always lurking, always lurking, and |
| 0:20.5 | you need to be ready for that shit. |
| 0:22.5 | It was a 11-hundred-meter movement, short movement. |
| 0:25.1 | About seven hundred meters into it, and you were about to get hit. |
| 0:28.1 | I just didn't know how. |
| 0:29.9 | Quiet. |
| 0:30.9 | At the spirit of quiet. |
| 0:31.9 | There's no kid, nothing in the street. |
| 0:34.2 | They came at us with motorcycles. |
| 0:36.0 | My petunistar and I put a front turn around to look at me to tell me, hey, something's |
| 0:40.3 | wrong, and as he's turned around to look at me, he starts to look into my life. |
| 0:44.3 | And then he stare. |
| 0:46.3 | So I look at his eyes, force me to look at my life, and that's when I saw this kid. |
| 0:50.1 | Right. |
| 0:51.1 | So immediately, I left my position and started going towards him. |
| 0:55.1 | He was walking backwards, like really weird, like looking at us parallel to us, right. |
| 0:59.3 | Then he did a hundred-year-old degree turn, and then another hundred-eight-degree turn |
| 1:03.0 | and boom, came towards us. |
| 1:04.9 | Creepiest thing ever is the fact that he never looked at me. |
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