US Military & Fighting Veteran PTSD (Allen West & Chad Robichaux Interview)

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.5 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks Colonel Allen West (Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel) and Chad Robichaux (Force Recon Marine) about why they joined the US military, the Iraq War and Afghanistan, their thoughts on NATO and the UN, issues veterans face when returning home, PTSD, why the Mighty Oaks Warrior Foundation was started, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and joining me on the Rubin Report today are two U.S. combat veterans,
0:09.0	one a former member of the U.S. Congress and one a former MMA champion, Colonel Allen
0:14.3	West and Chad Robachoe.
0:15.9	Welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:16.9	Thanks, thanks for having us on.
0:18.2	Thanks for having us on.
0:19.2	Thanks for having us on.
0:20.2	Thanks for having us on.
0:21.2	I am glad to have you guys here because as I mentioned to you right before we started,
0:22.6	we haven't done enough generally on military and veterans issues and all of those things.
0:27.6	So we're going to dive into all that talk about your nonprofit and why you guys are
0:30.9	here together and all of those good things.
0:33.3	But first off, what made each of you want to go into the military?
0:36.8	Colonel, I'll start with you.
0:38.0	Well for me it was a family tradition.
0:40.6	We just celebrated the 75th anniversary of D-Day when my father fought in World War
0:45.1	II.
0:46.1	He was a corporal in the United States Army.
0:47.8	He initially started in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and that's where he was wounded.
0:53.0	Run and supplied dispatches.
0:54.2	My older brother was a Marine Infra Truman and Vietnam wounded a case on.
0:59.2	And at the age of 15, my dad challenged me to be the first officer in our family.
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