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🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Jocko & Darryl discuss the humiliating and catastrophic final days of the US war in Afghanistan. This episode is dedicated to the heroic efforts of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines & civilians who put their bodies on the line to help our people escape the Taliban.
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0:00.0 | This is the Jocco Unraveling podcast episode 23 with Darrell Cooper and me, Jocco Willink. |
0:08.7 | And it is currently the last day of September and we are reflecting looking back at August |
0:21.3 | and September. |
0:23.4 | And I think the entire time we could have done 100 episodes, no, maybe an episode a day |
0:29.5 | or every other day as to everything that unfolded. |
0:33.8 | And I was busy, you were busy, we're working, we're doing other things. |
0:39.6 | But we get to this point where we find a chance to, which might be beneficial, I guess, that |
0:45.6 | we get to look back and look back at this situation and say, what just happened? |
0:54.2 | Just happened with regards to this Afghanistan pull out. |
0:59.8 | We see the Afghan military collapse. |
1:04.4 | We see the Afghan government collapse. |
1:08.4 | We see $80 million worth of weapons, vehicles equipment, 3000 humbues, 32 MI, 17 helicopters, |
1:23.3 | 3 C-130s, 43 MD5, 30 helicopters, 33 black hawks, 23 A-29 light attack planes, 10 AC-208 |
1:41.3 | planes, 20,000 grenades, somewhere around 10,000 small arms weapons, 1400 RPGs. |
1:53.2 | And in my opinion, perhaps the worst of all, between 10,000 and 15,000 sets of night vision |
2:00.6 | goggles all left behind. |
2:03.6 | And on top of that, during this pullout, we had 13 servicemen and women who were killed. |
2:17.3 | It was an unmitigated disaster. |
2:23.6 | It got me to thinking, since you and I didn't do any work during this, I ended up doing |
2:29.0 | that video of what I would say if I was president. |
2:35.0 | And there's two things that pushed me to make that video of what I would say if I was president. |
2:40.9 | The first one was seeing the E.O.G.A. reenactment by the Taliban fully kidded up an American gear. |
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