The Truth About War with Combat Veteran Kelsi Sheren

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Kelsi Sheren is a Canadian military veteran who served as an artillery gunner in Afghanistan when she was just 19 years old. The intensity of her tour ultimately led to the development of PTSD. She is now an advocate for veterans grappling with PTSD and suicide. Kelsi is the author of, ‘Brass & Unity: One Woman's Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back’ - available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637588917 Kelsi’s website: https://www.kelsisheren.com SPONSOR: https://GETSUPERBEETS.COM Use Promo Code: TRIG to get a free 30-day supply + 15% off your first order SPONSOR: Ekster Smart Wallet. Buy yours today at https://partner.ekster.com/Triggernometry | Use code: TRIGGERNOMETRY for an additional 5% discount. Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We don't know what we are asking people to truly go do. We just tell them to go do it.
0:05.0	That's why rich people don't send their kids.
0:08.0	And we say, ah, but that was their job. They signed up for it.
0:11.0	Most of us don't have a goddamn clue. What does it feel like to pull a trigger on a kid?
0:15.2	What's it feel like to watch someone get stoned to death? What does that smells like when you have to go pick up
0:19.9	burning bodies? It's like you're not going to win against cultures like this. They are
0:25.3	willing to do what we are not willing to do. We don't know how we're going to
0:29.3	react until we react until we're in it. And I I'd be fine until I wasn't.
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0:53.5	Kelsey.
0:55.0	First question, what makes a 19 year old girl want to join the military and go and
0:59.7	fight abroad?
1:02.0	I didn't necessarily want to fight abroad as much as I wanted to join the military because I was
1:08.1	a lost 18-year-old kid that came from a small town and I met an incredible lady on a bus.
1:14.0	Yeah, I met a lady on a bus and she changed my world.
1:19.0	I was going to the, so you guys here in the UK call it Remember and
1:23.0	Day as well so I don't have to Americanize it for you but it was
1:26.2	Rememberance Day and I always go down to the ceremonies I grew up with a
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