Navy SEAL Sniper Ryan "Birdman" Parrott | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 103

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

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4.9 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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0:00.0	And then we convoyed back to base.
0:03.7	About three clicks south of Hobbini, they had called up the first driver in the Hummer,
0:10.4	called out that there was a dude standing on the side of the road, asked her for you.
0:14.7	They went through the standard R.O.E.s where they crashed.
0:17.0	Through a crash out, first turret going through the crash.
0:19.6	Through stun him, scare him, get him away, didn't move.
0:23.4	Third two, lays them, sends them pop shots around the area to see if he would move, didn't
0:30.0	do anything.
0:31.0	So that basically means that the next car in the convoy would be me.
0:34.0	So this is my time, where I'm turning my turret and my 50 caliber towards that dude so I
0:41.1	can smoke him.
0:43.4	And then right before I even got the chance to consider pushing the trigger.
0:51.7	We hit a 155 pressure player that I did, so we say.
0:54.9	It was the scariest fucking thing I've ever been through in my life.
0:58.9	It was so violent, it was so fast, it was so powerful.
1:02.3	It shot me straight out of the turret and went this guy.
1:04.4	That's why I got my nickname Birdman, it's because I went flying.
1:06.7	The fireball came blasting through the cockpit, was shunning, strapping all through all
1:10.0	of us, burning everybody inside.
1:11.7	We got first, second, third, three burns.
1:13.5	This complete utter chaos in the mass blew the front out of our Hummer off.
1:17.6	The Hummer went up, came back down, just smashed right into the dirt because we were probably
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