Ukraine Relief Veteran Mark Turner | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 119

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 233 minutes

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Summary

What's happening in the Russia-Ukraine war? Retired Recon Marine Mark Turner might have the answer. He's a founder of The Overwatch Foundation, a humanitarian nonprofit that's been assembling teams of U.S. Military Veterans to provide critical natural disaster relief and urgent humanitarian response communities all over the world. Mark isn't just sending heroes to help - he's been there, on the ground, in the days and weeks following the Russian invasion into Ukraine. So what's going on over there? Is it really as bad as they say? And most importantly - what can we do to make real change?

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Scottish Stereotypes
05:00 - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
11:30 - Growing Up Scottish
19:00 - Religion, Religion, Religion
24:00 - American Culture Shock
28:00 - Like Wrestling, But Better
31:00 - 4 Years of JROTC
42:00 - Election Security
44:00 - Arriving in Iraq, 2004
47:30 - Pulling the Trigger to Jason Mraz
52:00 - More Training, Less Doing
58:00 - Aggressive Intelligence
1:00:00 - The Battle for Yusufiyah
1:12:00 - Growing An Underground Network
1:15:30 - A Newly-Retired Marine
1:20:00 - Cartel Contracts in Mexico
1:23:00 - Close Calls
1:31:00 - Stateside Work
1:36:00 - Hurricane Work
1:45:00 - A Ukrainian Friend
1:49:00 - Four Days Into the War
1:58:00 - Training The Troops
2:04:00 - Russian Saboteurs
2:08:00 - Shaking Like A Leaf
2:19:00 - On Russia's Invasion
2:29:00 - Back to Ukraine
2:43:00 - Available Arms
2:59:00 - Rallying for Round 3
2:57:00 - Not What We Planned For
3:02:00 - Volunteering
3:04:00 - Our Third (and Fourth) Outing
3:13:00 - Some Have TOO Much Gear
3:16:00 - A Missing Marine
3:23:00 - Raising Funds & Gathering Resources
3:35:00 - Finding A Purpose

Support Mark Turner and The Overwatch Foundation:

The Overwatch Foundation: www.overwatchfoundationusa.org
BJJ Lab Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy: www.bjjlabnaperville.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markturnerbjj | https://www.instagram.com/theoverwatchfoundation

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Rapping presents for so no one gets to peak.
0:05.0	Last minute asks for guests to have a seat,
0:08.0	Race for the best spot to watch the TV,
0:12.0	Chuck the pillows on the floor as a make-to-setty Christmas cake.
0:16.0	Celebrate the chaos this Christmas.
0:19.0	At IKEA, have a Smith.
0:21.0	With everything you need to be a great host,
0:23.0	From tables and seating to gifts, decorations and Swedish treats.
0:27.0	IKEA, the wonderful everyday.
0:30.0	They were sending kids to our gate and giving us DVDs of,
0:38.0	you know, Iraqi army and Iraqi police getting their heads cut off.
0:43.0	They were delivering heads to the Gilaire A.O.
0:47.0	of Iraqi police officers that we were working with.
0:50.0	We did a lot of fed type stuff as well as as many people did.
0:54.0	We always had shotguns with us.
0:57.0	We would either, you know, put buckshot or even birch shot in there.
1:01.0	And it was so crazy at that time for like V-Beds and IDs and stuff that,
1:06.0	if vehicles got close to us, we would just start lighten that vehicle up with the shotgun,
1:10.0	just stay away, you know, shooting at the engine block, shooting at the windows.
1:16.0	I don't want to say it was the beginning of the insurgency because people out there probably know the timelines of all that more than me.
1:22.0	But that was at the time when it was like the beginning of these insurgents,
1:27.0	really organizing themselves and putting their tactics together with the IDs and the V-Beds
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