April 8, 2025 • 11 mins
On April 9th, 2005, Matt Klein, a retired NYPD detective and US Army infantryman, was struck by an IED while patrolling a cemetery in Samarra, Iraq. After the strike, the other members of his unit located and captured the triggerman.
In this clip taken from Ep. 180, Klein shares his incredible story of survival and resilience. He talks about the moment of the attack and the aftermath.
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In this clip taken from Ep. 180, Klein shares his incredible story of survival and resilience. He talks about the moment of the attack and the aftermath.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On your bio it said that you had you got
a purple heart from an ID. Was it on that
first strike or was that a separate one, No, it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Was, it was later on. It was in April. It
was April nine, two thousand and five, So we were
just doing a mission. You want the whole story. Yeah, yeah,
So it's two thousand and two thousand and five, April Knife.
So like you know, we're like we're you know, seeing
a lot of action and ship and there was this
there was you know a lot of people were getting killed.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So they were like, you know, we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Like chill out on like the religious sites and anything
that's kind of sensitive. You know, we don't want to
like make you know, piss everybody off so much. So
then it got to a point where they're just like
fuck that. So one of the points spots they wont
it was kind of off limits they just won was
a cemetery near one of the mosqueuse Like there was
a big golden mosque that got blown up like a
year later, but so this cemetery that like they're hiding
(00:48):
weapons in there, you know, at night, they're sneaking in
there after curfew and pulling weapons, IDs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We want to go in there and do.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A search in the middle of the day, like all right, whatever.
So my platoon goes. So we roll up and we
got a guy with a metal detector and my Bradley
pulls up drops out. There's a red gate and the
cemetery is kind of like an L shape. So we
we open up. So I'm the first guy in. Just
end up being the point man and walking into the cemetery.
(01:18):
My fucking answers are like this. Everybody's like fucking tense.
We're all fucking looking wait and get ambushed, you know,
get attacked.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's the city completely surrounds it, so there's lots of
rooftops they could shoot out us from, and shit, you
know they everybody knows definitely that we're we're doing.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So we go in there. So I'm on point.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To the right of me's the guy with the metal detector,
and he's going through. Now, all the graves are shallow,
so it's like a cemetery, but it's all like mounds
of dirt for like where the different graves are and the.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Headstones and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So we start moving through and second squad hops a
fence off to the left and they're moving through. So
we're all like in these big wedge formations. We're kind
of like moving through and it's fucking you know, we're
going through nice and.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Slow metal detector trying to d's and shit. Tense as fuck.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think there's like eleven o'clock in the morning, you know,
big beautiful blue sky. We're moving through and we just
don't find anything. We find like remnants of stuff, like
like you know, like some pieces of like exploded ordnance,
like like just pieces of like a mortar round this
and that, but nothing too serious. My platoon sogeant, he's
just walking around picking stuff up, looking around. No fucks given. Like,
(02:25):
we go through, don't find shit. So we all take
an ee roll pulling security. I remember looking at my
lieutenant like, yo, sorry, let's get the fuck out of here, right,
He's like, yeah, let's mount up, let's get out of here.
So we all turn around and we start walking back
the way we came. So it's a giant l So
I'm walking on point.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Man this time.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now walking in, I'm fucking like alert at the high
ready on the way out, I'm like kind of whistling.
I don't have sunglasses. I left my sunglasses back at
the base or whatever. So I had my goggles on,
these SSX goggles, and I was using those for my day,
like a tint in them. So I'm using those for
my sunglass, thank god. And I'm walking. So my squad
(03:03):
makes the left, go towards the red gate.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Get the hell out of there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Second squad's moving forward, they start to begin to hop
the wall to go into an alley way to get
out of the cemetery. So I'm walking and I'm coming
real close to this red gate. I see it coming up.
I'm looking. I look down at the ground, you know,
I'm just kind of walking. Boom, fucking earth just flies
right up next to me, right next to me, fucking dust, smoke,
(03:28):
fucking I go flying like four feet in the air,
and my rifle goes flying.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I land on my back.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The hole from the explosion at six and a half
feet wide by three and a half feet deep.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Fucking giant, giant, monster bomb. So I hit the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I roll over, and the first thing I do is
I'm like, this is the initiation to an ambush, Like
they're gonna detonate this fucking thing. And then guys are
gonn jump off on the rooftops and start spraying the
fuck out of us. So I hit, I roll over,
and I start crawling on my crash. So I fucking
crawl roll over a fucking grave. I have a shotgun
on my back. I pull my shotgun out. I'm like this,
I look down, I start checking. I look and I
(04:02):
start checking my legs. My legs there and my crotches intact.
I look down and on my vest I have blood
and like a piece of skin. I blood like splatter
all over and so I'm like, fuck, So I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I'm looking. This year is ringing? This year not a sound.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm like those motherfuckers they just they blew my fucking
ear off. I'm like, ah ah, Like so, I'm like
this my finger, I don't want to touch it. I'm like,
is this gonna be the fucking like slag of.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Meat something like this. I'm like, it's all there. Sorry,
I could good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I roll over and my shotgun. I look the dust,
smell all the debris, you know, raining down from the sky.
I look, and everybody hit the dirt, and I see
my lieutenant through the smoke and he's like, he's like.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Quaw your her.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm like, like, I'm blowing the fuck up, sir. He's like,
don't fucking move what comes to you. So I'm just
sitting there, fucking medic, bad ass guy eighteen years old, Delgado,
fucking the man.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
He comes running over, grabs me. He's a little dude,
grabs me.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Drags me out my Squalida, runs up to the hole,
gets my rifle.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They throw me on my back.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He starts like fucking bandaging in my face up and
ship and I'm laying on my back and a beautiful
blue sky. Everybody's looking down the top of me, like,
oh fuck. My two sons like started fucking hitting all
the houses. So everybody starts fucking. Everyone's fucking mad as fuck.
Now they start going through all the houses trying to
find the detonation guy.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So I'm laying there. I'm like in a daze, like, oh,
like what just happened to me. He's like, Yo, You're
gonna be fine. You gonna be fine. You fine, wrap
me up. Once I got wrapped up, I stood up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I felt like I'm like, I know I'm not gonna die.
I'm like I knew I was. I'm like, I felt
like a fucking badass. Now I'm like, I got the
foot of my teeth and my face was all cut
up and shit. So I hoped the fence. Joining in
with second squad. We start going through houses. Medic grabs
me inside the house, he's like, come with me, Come
with me. Going to a room, He's like, yo, pig
hory your clothes off from like the waist up. He
wanted to make sure I had no puncture wounds that
I didn't know about, and my my adrenaline was going
(05:46):
so I didn't feel so I fucking undressed. People in
the house are screaming the background and everything and what
do you call it? So I have nothing put my
shit back on, Like all right. So we started walking out.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna quit, and Tarantino this story.
We're gonna go back in time when we first got
dropped off and we went in a bunch of neighborhood
(06:07):
kids came up to the bradley and my friend's like, Hey,
what's up.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So I'm throwing candy to him. As he's throwing candy
to him, a military age.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Male guy comes walking out and starts yelling and cursing
at the kids, like it's the fuck away from the Americans.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's that. So my buddy starts yelling at I'm like
fuck you, and he's like yeah, whatever whatever. So the
kids run away and he walks away and he goes.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Into an abandoned building right across the street from where
I got blown up. So he paid no mind and mean,
you know, mentioned to it. And so later on he's
watching us come through. He sees me getting nuked. He's like,
oh fuck. So he goes on the radio like, YO,
come in this building.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Go in this building. So I come out. I got
I just go back to the beginning of the story
I was at.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I checked, I'm fine. I come walking out and I'm
walking and I hear around the corner like, yo, we
got the motherfucker second squad up in that built. Came
back to that, Bradley, my Buddy's like, yo, check that building.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
They ran up in there. They found the guy in
the third story. So he saw him.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He was like trying to take his clothes off, his shirt,
change his shirt. They fucking tackle him as the fighting
and he throws something out the window. They send the
guy down below. They find a car garage door opener
and they zip tie him up. So they bring him out,
so they they have him around the corner like you motherfucker.
So they're like, hey, come on, come over here, come
over here, yo, this is go guard the guy that
(07:26):
tried to kill you. So they threw me in the
back of a Bradley with this guy and face to
face with the guy who fucking tried to blow me up.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
That's crazy. I took pictures of him too.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I was like, hey, man, what's up, you know, But yeah,
it was pretty wild face to face, you know, and
that's that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Was it, you know, like the guy that tried to
kill me, and shit, I'm all bandaged off, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Holy shit, dude, that's such a surreal thing. Like no
one has that kind of opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, you know, and you know, like that's it, you know,
it's you know, the cups are on, there's nothing I
can do, you know, but just being faced with.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
The guy fucking try to kill me. You know, I
have a.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Fucking you know, my wife's at home pregnant, and this
guy I was so fucking lucky man, And so we
took him back.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
They interrogated him, they had like I think, what do
they call it?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Like a military intelligence officer came talk to him, and
then the Iraqi Army ended up taking him, you know
as a prisoner and shit. But you know they did
the whole wipe of his hands and stuff. You know,
they came up black with the ballistics and everything. So yeah, no,
so that was a fucking close call. I come back
to the base and everybody's like, yeah, chest bumping me
high five. And you mother fucking you, fucking I heard
(08:33):
you face plant an ID. You lived to tell it, so,
you know, very lucky. So the next day they come
back and force engineers and everything. They had to evacuate
the cemetery three times, so you know where the IDs
were hidden. As soon as you walk through the gate,
they were all buried directly to the right. So like
we we missed it. Like when we walked in, we
looked a little past and like missed it. They had
(08:55):
RpK machine guns, RPGs, mortars, they had won five five
artillery shells. They'd oldest ship buried in the ground. Thank
god that I needed to blow up and and detonate
all that ship.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It would have killed it would have killed half my platoon,
like all my team squad mates, we got a fucking duke.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But do you know what you were hip? Do you
know what you were hit by? Was it a homemade
or was it a they They said.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It was like a one five five round. I don't
think so. I think I would have died.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But still to this day, I'm amazed. I didn't like
lose a limb, have a giant puncture of any sort,
but just blew up, blew up, like right next to me,
and you know, I got some trap and I got
like thirteen stitches and like that was it, you know,
and you know, I go so they bring I go
to the medics. They look at me, they clean me
up a little bit. Everybody's like my CEOs like fucking
(09:43):
high five and me like you're fucking bad ass man,
You've got nukes. So that was all done. My michaeltoo, Sergeant.
It's like, yo, listen, you just got blown up. Go
chill in your room, play Xbox whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm like, all right. So I went up there and
I'm like I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Like I actually called my my my ex life at
the time, and she's like my wife and she's like
I'm talking to her and I had to, you know,
was caimbat ear plugs, the three m's, those those famous
ones from all the commercials. So the medics told me
to like, yo, listen, your ear drum blew out, So
keep that ear plug in there, like almost twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Four to seven.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Just take it out a little bit when you take
a shower, but leave it in there because you might
not you might lose hearing completely in there.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm like, okay. So I called her. I didn't tell
her that.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I just got blown the fuck up, and she's like,
she's kind of yelling at me.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
She's like, what's woe we you can't hear me.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I'm like, oh, like it was the awkwardest conversation, but
I dont want to tell her I almost died and shit.
So I hang up with her. I called my friend,
one of my friends back at Fort Stewart. That didn't
go over. I'm like, I'm like, yo, it's up. Bobby's like,
what's up. I'm like, I just got blown the fuck up.
So I go back to my room. I'm sitting down
to play Xbox and my platoon sergeant comes in. He's like, yo, listen,
(10:52):
I know you just got blown up. I told you
a chill, but like we're going back out. We got
like this mission that just came up, like I really
need you, can you you? He wasn't even telling me.
He was like, would you mind coming out, you know,
because like we don't have a lot of guys. I'm
like absolutely, I threw my shirt on and I fucking
went out there and did missions all night, you know,
On your bio it said that you had you got
a purple heart from an ID. Was it on that
first strike or was that a separate one, No, it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Was, it was later on. It was in April. It
was April nine, two thousand and five, So we were
just doing a mission. You want the whole story. Yeah, yeah,
So it's two thousand and two thousand and five, April Knife.
So like you know, we're like we're you know, seeing
a lot of action and ship and there was this
there was you know a lot of people were getting killed.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So they were like, you know, we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Like chill out on like the religious sites and anything
that's kind of sensitive. You know, we don't want to
like make you know, piss everybody off so much. So
then it got to a point where they're just like
fuck that. So one of the points spots they wont
it was kind of off limits they just won was
a cemetery near one of the mosqueuse Like there was
a big golden mosque that got blown up like a
year later, but so this cemetery that like they're hiding
(00:48):
weapons in there, you know, at night, they're sneaking in
there after curfew and pulling weapons, IDs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We want to go in there and do.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
A search in the middle of the day, like all right, whatever.
So my platoon goes. So we roll up and we
got a guy with a metal detector and my Bradley
pulls up drops out. There's a red gate and the
cemetery is kind of like an L shape. So we
we open up. So I'm the first guy in. Just
end up being the point man and walking into the cemetery.
(01:18):
My fucking answers are like this. Everybody's like fucking tense.
We're all fucking looking wait and get ambushed, you know,
get attacked.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There's a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's the city completely surrounds it, so there's lots of
rooftops they could shoot out us from, and shit, you
know they everybody knows definitely that we're we're doing.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So we go in there. So I'm on point.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To the right of me's the guy with the metal detector,
and he's going through. Now, all the graves are shallow,
so it's like a cemetery, but it's all like mounds
of dirt for like where the different graves are and the.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Headstones and everything.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So we start moving through and second squad hops a
fence off to the left and they're moving through. So
we're all like in these big wedge formations. We're kind
of like moving through and it's fucking you know, we're
going through nice and.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Slow metal detector trying to d's and shit. Tense as fuck.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think there's like eleven o'clock in the morning, you know,
big beautiful blue sky. We're moving through and we just
don't find anything. We find like remnants of stuff, like
like you know, like some pieces of like exploded ordnance,
like like just pieces of like a mortar round this
and that, but nothing too serious. My platoon sogeant, he's
just walking around picking stuff up, looking around. No fucks given. Like,
(02:25):
we go through, don't find shit. So we all take
an ee roll pulling security. I remember looking at my
lieutenant like, yo, sorry, let's get the fuck out of here, right,
He's like, yeah, let's mount up, let's get out of here.
So we all turn around and we start walking back
the way we came. So it's a giant l So
I'm walking on point.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Man this time.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now walking in, I'm fucking like alert at the high
ready on the way out, I'm like kind of whistling.
I don't have sunglasses. I left my sunglasses back at
the base or whatever. So I had my goggles on,
these SSX goggles, and I was using those for my day,
like a tint in them. So I'm using those for
my sunglass, thank god. And I'm walking. So my squad
(03:03):
makes the left, go towards the red gate.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Get the hell out of there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Second squad's moving forward, they start to begin to hop
the wall to go into an alley way to get
out of the cemetery. So I'm walking and I'm coming
real close to this red gate. I see it coming up.
I'm looking. I look down at the ground, you know,
I'm just kind of walking. Boom, fucking earth just flies
right up next to me, right next to me, fucking dust, smoke,
(03:28):
fucking I go flying like four feet in the air,
and my rifle goes flying.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I land on my back.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
The hole from the explosion at six and a half
feet wide by three and a half feet deep.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Fucking giant, giant, monster bomb. So I hit the ground.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I roll over, and the first thing I do is
I'm like, this is the initiation to an ambush, Like
they're gonna detonate this fucking thing. And then guys are
gonn jump off on the rooftops and start spraying the
fuck out of us. So I hit, I roll over,
and I start crawling on my crash. So I fucking
crawl roll over a fucking grave. I have a shotgun
on my back. I pull my shotgun out. I'm like this,
I look down, I start checking. I look and I
(04:02):
start checking my legs. My legs there and my crotches intact.
I look down and on my vest I have blood
and like a piece of skin. I blood like splatter
all over and so I'm like, fuck, So I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I'm looking. This year is ringing? This year not a sound.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I'm like those motherfuckers they just they blew my fucking
ear off. I'm like, ah ah, Like so, I'm like
this my finger, I don't want to touch it. I'm like,
is this gonna be the fucking like slag of.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Meat something like this. I'm like, it's all there. Sorry,
I could good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I roll over and my shotgun. I look the dust,
smell all the debris, you know, raining down from the sky.
I look, and everybody hit the dirt, and I see
my lieutenant through the smoke and he's like, he's like.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Quaw your her.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm like, like, I'm blowing the fuck up, sir. He's like,
don't fucking move what comes to you. So I'm just
sitting there, fucking medic, bad ass guy eighteen years old, Delgado,
fucking the man.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
He comes running over, grabs me. He's a little dude,
grabs me.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Drags me out my Squalida, runs up to the hole,
gets my rifle.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They throw me on my back.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He starts like fucking bandaging in my face up and
ship and I'm laying on my back and a beautiful
blue sky. Everybody's looking down the top of me, like,
oh fuck. My two sons like started fucking hitting all
the houses. So everybody starts fucking. Everyone's fucking mad as fuck.
Now they start going through all the houses trying to
find the detonation guy.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So I'm laying there. I'm like in a daze, like, oh,
like what just happened to me. He's like, Yo, You're
gonna be fine. You gonna be fine. You fine, wrap
me up. Once I got wrapped up, I stood up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I felt like I'm like, I know I'm not gonna die.
I'm like I knew I was. I'm like, I felt
like a fucking badass. Now I'm like, I got the
foot of my teeth and my face was all cut
up and shit. So I hoped the fence. Joining in
with second squad. We start going through houses. Medic grabs
me inside the house, he's like, come with me, Come
with me. Going to a room, He's like, yo, pig
hory your clothes off from like the waist up. He
wanted to make sure I had no puncture wounds that
I didn't know about, and my my adrenaline was going
(05:46):
so I didn't feel so I fucking undressed. People in
the house are screaming the background and everything and what
do you call it? So I have nothing put my
shit back on, Like all right. So we started walking out.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna quit, and Tarantino this story.
We're gonna go back in time when we first got
dropped off and we went in a bunch of neighborhood
(06:07):
kids came up to the bradley and my friend's like, Hey,
what's up.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So I'm throwing candy to him. As he's throwing candy
to him, a military age.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Male guy comes walking out and starts yelling and cursing
at the kids, like it's the fuck away from the Americans.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's that. So my buddy starts yelling at I'm like
fuck you, and he's like yeah, whatever whatever. So the
kids run away and he walks away and he goes.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Into an abandoned building right across the street from where
I got blown up. So he paid no mind and mean,
you know, mentioned to it. And so later on he's
watching us come through. He sees me getting nuked. He's like,
oh fuck. So he goes on the radio like, YO,
come in this building.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Go in this building. So I come out. I got
I just go back to the beginning of the story
I was at.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I checked, I'm fine. I come walking out and I'm
walking and I hear around the corner like, yo, we
got the motherfucker second squad up in that built. Came
back to that, Bradley, my Buddy's like, yo, check that building.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
They ran up in there. They found the guy in
the third story. So he saw him.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He was like trying to take his clothes off, his shirt,
change his shirt. They fucking tackle him as the fighting
and he throws something out the window. They send the
guy down below. They find a car garage door opener
and they zip tie him up. So they bring him out,
so they they have him around the corner like you motherfucker.
So they're like, hey, come on, come over here, come
over here, yo, this is go guard the guy that
(07:26):
tried to kill you. So they threw me in the
back of a Bradley with this guy and face to
face with the guy who fucking tried to blow me up.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
That's crazy. I took pictures of him too.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I was like, hey, man, what's up, you know, But yeah,
it was pretty wild face to face, you know, and
that's that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Was it, you know, like the guy that tried to
kill me, and shit, I'm all bandaged off, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Holy shit, dude, that's such a surreal thing. Like no
one has that kind of opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, you know, and you know, like that's it, you know,
it's you know, the cups are on, there's nothing I
can do, you know, but just being faced with.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
The guy fucking try to kill me. You know, I
have a.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Fucking you know, my wife's at home pregnant, and this
guy I was so fucking lucky man, And so we
took him back.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
They interrogated him, they had like I think, what do
they call it?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Like a military intelligence officer came talk to him, and
then the Iraqi Army ended up taking him, you know
as a prisoner and shit. But you know they did
the whole wipe of his hands and stuff. You know,
they came up black with the ballistics and everything. So yeah, no,
so that was a fucking close call. I come back
to the base and everybody's like, yeah, chest bumping me
high five. And you mother fucking you, fucking I heard
(08:33):
you face plant an ID. You lived to tell it, so,
you know, very lucky. So the next day they come
back and force engineers and everything. They had to evacuate
the cemetery three times, so you know where the IDs
were hidden. As soon as you walk through the gate,
they were all buried directly to the right. So like
we we missed it. Like when we walked in, we
looked a little past and like missed it. They had
(08:55):
RpK machine guns, RPGs, mortars, they had won five five
artillery shells. They'd oldest ship buried in the ground. Thank
god that I needed to blow up and and detonate
all that ship.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It would have killed it would have killed half my platoon,
like all my team squad mates, we got a fucking duke.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
But do you know what you were hip? Do you
know what you were hit by? Was it a homemade
or was it a they They said.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It was like a one five five round. I don't
think so. I think I would have died.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But still to this day, I'm amazed. I didn't like
lose a limb, have a giant puncture of any sort,
but just blew up, blew up, like right next to me,
and you know, I got some trap and I got
like thirteen stitches and like that was it, you know,
and you know, I go so they bring I go
to the medics. They look at me, they clean me
up a little bit. Everybody's like my CEOs like fucking
(09:43):
high five and me like you're fucking bad ass man,
You've got nukes. So that was all done. My michaeltoo, Sergeant.
It's like, yo, listen, you just got blown up. Go
chill in your room, play Xbox whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm like, all right. So I went up there and
I'm like I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Like I actually called my my my ex life at
the time, and she's like my wife and she's like
I'm talking to her and I had to, you know,
was caimbat ear plugs, the three m's, those those famous
ones from all the commercials. So the medics told me
to like, yo, listen, your ear drum blew out, So
keep that ear plug in there, like almost twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Four to seven.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Just take it out a little bit when you take
a shower, but leave it in there because you might
not you might lose hearing completely in there.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm like, okay. So I called her. I didn't tell
her that.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I just got blown the fuck up, and she's like,
she's kind of yelling at me.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
She's like, what's woe we you can't hear me.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I'm like, oh, like it was the awkwardest conversation, but
I dont want to tell her I almost died and shit.
So I hang up with her. I called my friend,
one of my friends back at Fort Stewart. That didn't
go over. I'm like, I'm like, yo, it's up. Bobby's like,
what's up. I'm like, I just got blown the fuck up.
So I go back to my room. I'm sitting down
to play Xbox and my platoon sergeant comes in. He's like, yo, listen,
(10:52):
I know you just got blown up. I told you
a chill, but like we're going back out. We got
like this mission that just came up, like I really
need you, can you you? He wasn't even telling me.
He was like, would you mind coming out, you know,
because like we don't have a lot of guys. I'm
like absolutely, I threw my shirt on and I fucking
went out there and did missions all night, you know,
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