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The 9941 Podcast
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Episode 56: In Iraq 2007, Sgt. Avila's vehicle was struck by a 200lb IED resulting to 75% burns of his body. Even after tribulations, amputation of his right leg, and numerous surgeries, Omar "Crispy" Avila continues to help wounded veterans through their recovery process and attends public speaking events in hoping to motivate many.
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| 0:00.0 | The So, Dead can't des-dise. Dip cans and diesel, mud tires and smoke, |
| 0:35.0 | long line of 4 by 4 by 4 and bumping down no back hole. |
| 0:44.0 | Raise your cold one high |
| 0:47.0 | in the redneck invasion. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, you're walking with that ye nation. |
| 0:59.0 | My first entertainment tour in Iraq was in 2007. Oh no kidding. And it was originally |
| 1:08.0 | booked for April 2007 and the week before and said they're canceling because there's too many |
| 1:17.2 | contractor called and said they're canceling because there's too many operations |
| 1:21.3 | going on yeah Just too busy. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, that was during the surge. |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:25.7 | That was a surge. |
| 1:26.6 | And so they rescheduled us for August. |
| 1:29.4 | So my first tour, we went in August, and I wasn't I wasn't no nobody knew who I was so I was we |
| 1:37.0 | were doing like all these small fobs and we were hitting two to fobs a |
| 1:41.3 | day for 14 days we would just go around and go to all these little places. But I remember very |
| 1:46.8 | specifically in Warhorse and we had met, we'd been probably going for three or four days, just meet all these people. |
| 1:59.0 | Everybody's real cool, upbeat, they're like, oh, musicians awesome. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah. Everyone has different jobs on the |
| 2:04.0 | fob there's a million jobs on the fob yeah and I remember one day this about a five |
| 2:12.4 | truck convoy comes in and the sergeant major that was taking us around |
| 2:16.7 | you know they opened the gates the guys come in they parked you know in the gravel and |
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