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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast where we are now in our fourth episode of our series on Richard Marsenko, the founding of Seal Team 6 and the continuing derangement of the Navy SEALs.

This episode featuring, focusing much more on the continuing derangement of the Navy SEALs. Yeah. It's not getting better. I guess it is getting better. It's not getting, it was pretty bad at the start, so maybe I'm wrong. There's a lot. I mean, we're not talking about Abu Ghraib and how that connects as much as we should, maybe. There's a lot to cover. We're not talking about, like, those seals who got in trouble for murdering a green beret over maybe drugs and prostitution. A bunch of, like, there's a lot of stuff that we're, I mean, I'm trying to give you the hits here. But there's a, the Navy SEALs get up to a lot. A lot of different seals doing a lot of different things. Yeah. It is like, you know, absolute power corrupts absolutely immediately.

It is like, you know, absolute power corrupts absolutely immediately.

It is shocking every time.

Really fast right away.

Yeah.

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In Afghanistan, the seals were exposed to the kind of tempo of activity that they had never

known, and killing became an everyday affair in some cases.

This had a brutalizing effect.

Within months of Roberts Ridge, red team operators had started filming what they called

bleed-out videos and showing them to other seals at Bogram.

One viewer later described these as war porn.

And the operator responsible...

Yeah, they're war porn.

It's like videos of, like, guys getting executed and dying and, like, bleeding to death, you know, after being, like...

To hark, bro.

Yeah, it's really dark. It's really dark.

Yeah. Trophy taking in the digital age is like, oh.

And there's, yeah. I can tell you when you do like war zone reporting, you will accumulate

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