all right welcome back this is going to be episode three of colonial outcast my co-hosts

mike sorry mark that was a big whiff he's not going to like that when he edits this um

he can't make it here tonight so i'm here um and with uh one of my buddies and we're going to

discuss um rafa and the catastrophe of clearance that that will be.

So just some background.

This is only episode three.

So my name is Greg Stoker.

I'm a former U.S. Army Ranger, which is a unit within the Joint Special Operations Command, the United States Joint Special Operations Command.

I did four deployments and I do have some practical experience and background of military intelligence

collection and analysis as well.

My friend Travis here is a former West Point field grade artillery officer who did two deployments

in Iraq, one in Baghdad.

And correct me if I'm wrong, you were a mechanized platoon leader in that capacity, your first deployment.

Yeah, I did both tours in Baghdad.

One is a rifle platoon leader, motorized rifle platoon later, in a neck division.

Yeah. And then the second one is embedded combat advisor with six rocky infantry, who's also

Mech.

Yeah. So I did all my tours in Afghanistan, so a completely different environment and a completely

different campaign

comparing the two really isn't the thing but we can both agree on the absolute mess that the ground

campaign of that the IDF has conducted in Gaza has been just one seeming from based off open source intelligence sources one complete catastrophe yeah just i mean just

judging by the number of by the number of armor um the number of disabled armored vehicles i've

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