Special Forces Mountaineer Bryan Ray - Part 2 | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 132

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Towards the peak of his military career, Bryan Ray had achieved nearly everything he'd set out to do. He'd excelled as a solider, embraced command, and been entrusted with the kind of decision-making that only the bravest dare to reach. But as any mountaineer knows, with the highest highs come the lowest lows, and it's all too easy for a leaders mind to wander when lives are at stake.

Part 2 of Bryan's story picks up where Episode 131 left off - a harrowing story of how another day in the desert became an unforgettable experience, for better or worse.

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Chapters:

00:00 - A RON Site Tragedy
08:00 - Learning to Cope
24:00 - Countertaliban
28:00 - Back to Afghanistan
35:00 - Serving Under Different Presidential Administrations
43:00 - A Good Ol' Fashioned Prison Raid
52:00 - Missile Rick
1:01:00 - Coursework at the Racket Club
1:04:00 - Getting Out
01:14:00 - GWOT Guys Are Gonna Run the World
01:17:00 - HVMN & Ketone-IQ
01:32:00 - What's the Worst that Could Happen?

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Go to mudwtr.com/mike to support the show and use code MIKEMUD for 15% off

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You can find Ketone-IQ at hvmn.com. Visit hvmn.com and use promo code MIKEDROP at checkout to save 20%. Again, that’s hvmn.com and promo code MIKEDROP.

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0:00.0	We're not long after, and we get a call from one of our local police guys,
0:04.1	and a shady character, but either way, he's our character.
0:06.2	So he calls and says, hey, the village is saying that you just killed a couple of kids.
0:17.6	As we're riding through there, everything was so quiet, and like the villagers,
0:21.0	they were all sitting there, like staring at us as we were rolling through.
0:23.2	And the only thought in my mind was, it was like, this is it.
0:25.5	This is when it's going to happen.
0:26.7	And if it does happen, it's because I deserve it.
0:30.0	They're going to hide behind women and children.
0:33.0	They're going to go into buildings because that's what they want.
0:35.2	These guys can throw a dead Taliban guy in a closet and frickin' take a picture of some dead women
0:39.8	and be like, boom, it's up. It's on social media.
0:41.7	And when you hear the enemy call on the radio, to say that we have so many dead here
0:46.6	that it's starting to smell and we can't support, like, we could hear their desperation.
0:51.0	Like they knew that they were fucked.
0:53.0	I wouldn't say that I had hoped that I got killed that day, but I was like already,
0:57.9	I would already accept it. I felt like I'd already deserved it.
1:00.2	Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant, and we don't give a shit about your feelings.
1:14.8	For those who haven't seen or watched an AC, he went 30 pounds something.
1:22.0	It's like, it's incredible.
1:24.8	Like, because of the distance, too, you know, you're seeing the, you're hearing report
1:29.9	where you're seeing the puffs of smoke and their mismatch and just watching a frickin' airplane shoot how it's out of it.
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