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WAR With Iran Would Be a DISASTER... And Nobody Wants to Admit It | Ep. 291 | Pt. 1

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

4.96.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Adam Schwarze enlisted in the Marines three weeks after watching the Twin Towers fall live from his senior year English class and never really stopped fighting. Nine deployments, 70 plus countries, classified undersea SEAL operations, and now a grassroots Senate run in Minnesota with no establishment backing. This one gets into all of it, the rocket shots in Iraq, the brother who died in his arms, what it actually took to cross from Marine infantryman to SEAL officer, and why he believes boots on the ground in Iran could turn into another Middle East disaster. The conversation gets brutally honest about what veterans understand about Iran that politicians don’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The entire First Marine Corps Division, you know, thousands of people are on Route 1, and we start to get the command to offload all of our tracks to go forth and press into this town.

0:10.0

It turns out that we got like RPK fire from a window and within 10 seconds before even anybody gets out of the tracks, I like stand up on the fan tail of the track at the very end and put a rocket right through this window and flew the whole building apart and then the whole

0:26.5

battlefield just quieted. Nobody shot or out again. Would you say that that shot of that rocket

0:33.1

is the most impactful or kind of biggest shot that you made in that deployment?

0:39.1

Actually, the best shot's the one I didn't take.

0:41.6

Two nights after my brother got blown up in my arms,

0:45.4

there was a side quest thing called the Kufa Technical College.

0:49.0

15 of the top 20 most wanted terrorists in like Iraq were in that building.

0:53.4

We took, I think, just a couple of casualties

0:55.6

and killed thousands of bad guys. Across my entire 21 years of service, the most impressive single

1:01.8

engagement was that. In an engagement like that, how many Marines typically are in the fight

1:09.5

with the unit that you were with.

1:11.6

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always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast.

2:03.3

He was both a Marine and a Seal, deployed nine times, worked across more than 70 countries.

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