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braids different from the rest of the Special Operations Community uh my personal opinion is our adherence to the fact that we are quite professional since it's going to be dark when Let's get closer to the trees. I want to keep it tight so that way we spend as little time as possible getting into the trees and having good accountability. I make sure they know the building and then I'll lead from there and I'll take up the rear.

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bra different from everyone else's Special Ops who were very adaptable. There is no there is no in our vocabulary I guess what I would like to say is, uh, we, it's rare that we fail because we find another way around it. The most important thing is to try to do everything we can with and through our couple strength, um, and uh, we are very complete to get where. uh um, adapting is easy for us because we've done it with all the determination, I would say, uh, the refusal to give up, I mean, you understand that a lot and Stu, uh, but we really try to live by it, um, you know , we are. quite a humble group of guys, real tnet community uh and that's why I don't like to talk too much about us, but yes, I would say that it's that determination that helped me get through the selection in the Q course, as my father.

I used to, uh, get drafted, he says no matter what happens, just don't give up, and that's the only thing that got me through it. I'm not the big, bulky Navy SEAL guy or I'm not the biggest guy who can lift the most weight, but I have the same qualities that you'll find in everyone in my Ode, something that people don't know enough about Green Berets, one under which we are grouped, only the term Special Forces is as a whole in the entire community, what Green? The

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We were a special forces tab, but that term is generally used for all elements within us. Socom uh greenb ra specifically our US Army Special Forces We have five established primary mission objectives that primarily include uh unconventional warfare foreign internal defense uh special reconnaissance direct action and counterterrorism operations we have a multitude of sub uh uh tasks in the that we participate but we are the department of defense leader for the unconventional operations board I would definitely say that our best quality is being adapted to it, uh, the environment gives us, it's hit, hey, I got it, cover Jake, come on, cover that door okay he what kind of blood is it he's dripping yeah yeah hey come on I'd say mission command is uh um.

It is an ability to affect an area that is difficult to reach. The best way to describe the commandos is that all other forces cannot get there or reach that area. They can bring great Force to blow them up. go into, you know, deep into enemy territory and affect some of the higher-ups and be able to get, you know, multiple enemy Ki and, um, disrupt a large network, with just one KN, so I want to describe them. be effective when Special Forces first took up the Command Mission really was first taken up in 2006 when we realized that throughout our FID-focused combat mission that we are carrying out here we needed to deliver it dedicated units of direct action for I supported what was becoming Ana.

It started with the model that was used in Iraq, was raising the ictf and paid attention to about 70 commandos of which we came to the category of commando training to Jordan with a third member of the Special Forces Group and we ran. them through my qualified training there uh that group came back in 2006 and started the train of the first three uh actually Four candex uh that came into operation in 2007 uh and since then we are now at nine canex in total uh under anaso I hope that the commandos in the ana um get off the train that we give them have that warrior mentality U that we try to pressure the enemy, that tries to push that aggressive level man um just that, hopefully, they will see how we act. as a soldier or as a member of a team and it somehow motivates them to be aggressive when necessary because they are going to go into Harm's Way as much as, if not more than, any other unit in the AASF, so that's them.

We are essentially the unit that the government is going to call in when a district center is overrun or a bad situation is developing in a not so good part of the country, so they have to be prepared for that kind of thing and we hope that during our training We can prepare them for that because we are fighting alongside them and if not we can depend on the guys we are fighting to act how we act or at least the modum of how we act and are the Training is not really valuable so, outside of the training aspect, we try to make it realistic because these guys are about to enter Harm's Way right after that training, the focus points I bring to the training when Comm uh trains the Commandos and nasf. um at the tactical level um the members of my Detachment uh work at that level uh below I would say company uh level below and they work hard at the uh at the tack next to the house the basic thing is to be a Master it's the basic thing like everyone should be Who wants to be a high-level operator?

Land navigation uh weapon and day and night placement uh Marksmanship Close combat try to concentrate uh Focused on the mission at hand uh and generally these are half operations to do a deliberate cleanup with the possibility of iids and know that we are going to being attacked from strongpoint positions once defensive perimeters are established, uh, personnel responsibility, um, IED detection and uh, mitigation, room entry and clearance, proper SSC, these are things that hit us hard in the The tactical level Chuck status search mission set we currently have is trying to train them to operate on their own.

I would like them to have more capabilities. We had situations where they depend a lot on our airlifts and are very dependent. about doing certain things in certain ways, uh, I would like them to go back to the basics and understand how to shoot and move and communicate and not lock themselves in an area and expect the Air Force to drop bombs on people I would like. so you can understand how to maneuver again and chase the enemy, as well as branch out and use your armor package and driving locations, try to be inventive with your mission sets so you know they learn that adaptability that we're trying to convey to them that, hey, just because you don't have something doesn't mean you can't make it work, doing missions with uh or ops with commandos in ansf can be pretty interesting sometimes, uh, a lot of guys.

I can honestly relate it, it depends on the platoon or the sock you are going out with, if you have a bad sock or they can say she is the best miss you have ever been in if you have a good soccer platoon, it just depends on who you are with. work and the amount of training and effort to establish a good relationship that you yourselves put into it. I have had a great experience with both Commandos and ANF. To me, ANF is the closest thing to an American Ode like you. I'm going to get to Afghanistan as far as the associated force is concerned.

They have a light Die Hard aggression to them which is awesome and the guys take charge of their job and the mission. The ASF members have pushed me back and um. Same thing, uh, Commandos, uh, if you fight Vant or if you show them the courage to face the enemy, they will go with you, they just need a little more encouragement than the Ansf guys, who are generally, in some cases, dragging . us to the target so oh okay okay second RPG here come here getting ANF and the commandos to work together is a lot like trying to get um SF to work with a ranger battalion uh the ranger battalion is great at what they do and they are very regimented and have a straight line mentality and we try to work outside the box and like I said if something comes up we try to adapt to it and work through it so I think the ansf they're pretty much the same and that part says uh so having them under the Commands um commanding it gets to where um they have problems to the extent that you have them uh every time you have Special Ops working together uh I think it may be uh Without However, there is great potential because in previous missions that we have done since we have been here we have had ansf uh and commandos mixed in the same unit, a part of it, so as our support element, we had ansf and commandos with between them and the command seemed to feed off the NSF energy uh and move a lot better and they wanted to go out and fight and do other things um but to have that ability to work together they really have to work through a lot of egos, which I think is like any community. of Special Operations.

Sometimes you have to put your ego aside and try to achieve it, but I really see a lot of potential coming from them and a lot of good things. in the future as long as they can keep those egos out of it and start pushing each other so I can see the ANF taking on our role when we leave and be those mentors to the commands and leaders who man that door. He, hey, hey, neck wound, no arterial bleeding, okay, neck, my only concern with this guy, uh, my only concern with this guy is that he doesn't want to turn his head, so if we get out of here with ESS, he is. shit, but I mean we can get it, we gotta be men to get out of here, yeah, okay, hey, like you're on the corner, I want you to try to take a picture of that, okay, I need light, I got it . okay man same thing man I try to get a cash injection into that mental preparations uh we do a pretty good job I think about when we get into a reverse cycle of using every waking moment we have for rehearsals and prepare our equipment and move forward.

Around that, everyone stays focused on the mission and the element leaders are pulling out their extra members and walking to the plans over and over again so that once we get off the plane we know exactly where we need to go. We already know that the first building will be used as a strongpoint and then we are each additional ghost building from there. We are already mentally preparing for once contacts are made, how we will move to support that contact. we're going to get to a low, how are we going to get that low to where our closest hlcs are per phase, uh, these initial rehearsals are constantly going through guys' heads, especially mine, uh, you know, I'm the AR of the team.

Everything when it comes to a Mas house situation or something like that, that's my main focus, so I'm always in the back of my head thinking by phase by element, you know if if a crisis happens here, how am I going to get there? over there? Who am I going to reach? I carry with me what my fastest route is, where my closest hlz is, and if I get hit along the way, who do I call for backup? How are they going to get to me and then how are we going to move forward with that crisis? site and mention that casually, it's happened more than a few times so far since we've been here, we've always managed to get to the part of the wounded or, uh, dead, for the SS and we've successfully found them every time.

Knock on wood, we still have a couple of operations left, but that has worked across the board. M I think everyone has something a little different. Some guys, will you know right before you get on the helicopter? You know, you'll see the nice guys. They walk out to the corner and you can see them doing a mental checklist in their head making sure they know what they have, they count the number of commands, they count the number of charges, they count the amount of special equipment they have with them, you know? ? We're going over the grgs under the red lamp while we're in your stance, just going over that redundantly in your head, getting ready for what we know because that's what we know with this Mission, we don't fly a softball.

The objectives we know when we go in, it's going to be a fight, there are a lot of obstacles in this phase of the war right now, uh, a lot of the American people and I'll give you a couple different sides of this, uh. Through the eyes of the American people When I was deployed to Afghanistan, a member of my family told me that there is still fighting there, so in the eyes of the American public I would say that they are tired of war and a lot of them. I don't know what's going on here, I don't have a good idea of ​​what's going on here, so some of the challenges are, you know, feeling like you have support at home, we definitely have support from people who know us.

Personally, but it's public opinion that you know I value, and it's just difficult because I don't feel like there's an adequate picture of what's happening here, at this stage of the war, as I had mentioned before. We have, we are in a situation where we will be leaving soon and the next teams that come in will have a strictlyadvisor, so we're trying to balance the independent operations of the Commands and the NSF and we're doing our partner operations as well, but the partner operations are starting to become a little more hybrid, where we give them the mission before, they have a lot more voice in it, have a better understanding and help plan it sometimes.

In the past there were no problems with using demolition, there were no problems with entering complexes, once you got to an area you could figure out which was the best complex to aim hard and set up the workshop, and then as soon as to air-ground ordinances has become a big problem, you know, we don't want civilian casualties, because that's not why we're here, but the Taliban has a very good campaign and propaganda against us. that every time we use air-to-ground, even if there were no civilian casualties, they will make it so that there were and then basically whoever spreads the word first is the one that everyone is going to believe, how does constant change work?

Roe constantly affects our operations. That may be a two-sided question. I would start by saying that I understand where some of Roe's considerations come in. In this phase of the war, we are trying to minimize unnecessary civilian casualties. in a huge restriction on the way we support ourselves when we are hit by an overwhelming Force that is smart enough to dig in and with civilians, um, you also know Roe and it puts us in danger now when it comes to that if we are trapped in an incapable maneuver, etc., will they reduce support if they see those civilians?

I don't think that inherently puts us in trouble, um, so that's the biggest way that Roe affects us is primarily in the form of issued as I see it and the enemy has taken advantage of that, the enemy knows not to move to the outdoors with weapons, you know, now they move to store points, they know where the helicopter and ISR platforms can't see them, in the green zones. and they use it and then they go into the buildings and they use the innocent by the standards, essentially as human shields from underground, they shoot, so what does that do to us that makes us try to attack them directly while they?

They're already fortified causing more casualties or making us have to go back and try to take them out essentially, which rarely works beyond the FD, you know, it always stays the same as far as um. right to self-defense, we had no problems with that, that's a good thing in my opinion, the ratios of force that come and go, I know that doesn't really follow with Roe, but in some ways yes, that always affects things. because it puts a greater risk to the forces on the ground, you know, my opinion is that either I carry with me my entire pack that is capable of holding it and fighting it on its own if necessary, or I do not carry any pack, it should not be a Reduce the pack, uh, because you never really know what's going to happen to the heart of the part and the force and in a really bad way and what's going to happen if there's an overwhelming force that builds up on them and starts to concentrate on our OverWatch position if I am. sitting there with a thin line Human strength because they don't want us to have too many American people on the ground so um I'm setting myself up for failure on that hey mud hey you'll be in the middle with us so we can direct both elements, let's do it hey, you want, I'm in that building, right, yeah, I want, I want to target this building hard so we can keep an eye on them.

Corners, corners, keep me informed if our South is about to enlighten us. brother, it's all of us, okay, Delta wants to go and push, we have a big ambush, hey, let's push out of the open field, come on, no, hey, hey, save your energy, let's go there, you're okay, okay, Come on, okay, Commandos. Hello, the commands are there, we got here, bring Scott's son, you ready to do this. 16 act 16, are you in charge? Yes, Dan, this is Jim Roger, he is your hot item. Can you see the enemy who is shooting at us? Yeah, 16. I'm trying to hold down, we're definitely in this in the middle of open command, hey, command, command, yeah, push into the river, man, I've got some guys moving in your direction right now covering their era, let's go first , let's go to the last one and a ho for us and let's go ohh yeah hey hey keep going and down man I got you I'm holding on back go go go I have one over here command command command 1 2 3 4 5 wait, let's break contact now Same let's break contact directly through the rx position hey, I have seven commands on the move.

I'm going to move with him, Scotty, okay, I'll be good at counting on you guys, we got everyone one, two, three. four, whoa, hey, hey, where did you guys make contact from basically since 6:00, yeah, hey, let's go, let's get away from this open area, come on, just targets here, come on, R, check, hey, we're going down towards the river bed right now hey look at the fire look at the fire that's us moving down the river come on come on ch commanders who are they shooting at hey we're close enough that we can back off yeah Hey, come on, let's start pushing back, go, uh, this rotation is The last rotation not only to carry out command or commando operations, but possibly the last combat rotation I participate in is a strange problem that must be contemplated.

You know, I passed Los Angeles. I spent a third of my life in Afghanistan or preparing to go. to Afghanistan and we lost a lot of good guys along the way, people who knew my name, there are still guys here fighting and you know we have brothers on both sides, the American side and the Associated Force side that I've had. I owe my life to the Afghan soldiers or police who fought for me and after the United States leaves, they will still be here fighting, so it's a strange problem to consider, you know, it's what I've become accustomed to.

What I've become accustomed to is training for Afghanistan, training for combat, going to Afghanistan to fight and, you know, what comes next is hard to swallow, I think guys who have lost brothers and who have been wounded and supported you . he's known our partner for years, it's very hard to let it go, not many people who haven't been in war or in the Special Forces understand what I'm saying right now, but it's hard, we want to. To be with our families, we want to be at home and play with our children, but at the same time we are divided because we want to be here, supporting the brothers who are still here fighting and fighting for us.

I lost because they are no longer with us and we honor them. I have practically spent my entire adult life doing this job in the military and I have spent it all in this country. This will be the sixth trip for me. I have seen it. to go from its infamous stages of infamy to where we are now and the amount of progress that the Afghan government and the military as a whole have made is phenomenal, and to spend so much time here and dedicate as much of my life as I had and as many friends as I have lost in this fight.

It will really bother me if we don't let this end properly, if we let this go back to the way it was before we got here. in a short period of time because we retired a little prematurely, really the big question is how do we adapt, how do we reintegrate back into the American population, there will be a lot of guys with a lot of adaptation problems and a lot of guys are going to talk about it, a lot of guys They're going to be too proud to talk about it, so we really need to have the support of Americans at home, family and friends, just understand that.

There will be a lot of people dealing with a lot of problems and issues that they may or may not be willing to talk about just because they are adapting from what they have become accustomed to. so you can always there's that saying uh you can knock the dog out of the bag but you can't knock the dog out of the bag so um it's not that we're bloodthirsty we're not warmongers it's just that we're Warf Fighters and we have that mentality and without an outlet or a means to do what we're trying to do, some adaptation will be necessary, so yes, that's the best way I can answer that question.

I don't know, I don't know how, I'll just do what I can while I'm here and value this rotation that I can and do what I can, you know, to keep the fight, uh, just to make it better for the guys that will be here after that we're gone and the guys that we've lost, so telling us that it's over is difficult, so it's definitely not easy, but like I said, I feel like the training and the Um, things that we were able to provide to Afghanistan, they can withstand them and they will be well, heavenly father, I come before you tonight and first of all, it is an honor to be here with these men as we prepare to possibly enter a kinetic situation God, I thank you so much that we can turn to you for all things.

I thank you because we can be men of God and yet, very concerned about not having to choose between one or the other, I pray father tonight. that you will instill in us a supernatural vision that you will help our eyes to see our ears to hear our minds to think and conceive things that we normally could not do God, may we glorify you in all we do I pray that this night will be one of our last God that allow us to leave with honor God if we put ourselves in the position of taking the life of another human being tonight father I pray that you help us do it with honor and according to a code thank you very much for this opportunity protect us we love you