I was holding my eyes open and I was in very much panic because I was blacked out and I thought I was blinded he ended up letting loose like 12 of these things in a small area they're running up to the tower and the guy was like you come up anymore I'm gonna shoot you and dumbed him my biggest thing that you know replays over and over and over and over is The Insider attack you know and like um I know that's a big part of your story yeah and uh you know everything happens for
a reason and uh like being in an Insider attack it's not like a heroic thing you know you're in a you're you got attacked you were in the open you got attacked you got hit with you know I got hit with rocket propelled grenades you know and uh and I didn't I wasn't tracking that the guy that was up there in the tower was instead of being focused out like he normally is that he turned all the weapons in on us in this little ass compound that's like the size of like a small parking lot
you know like a Walgreens and so um you know uh three days before that so this is August 13th 2012. so three days before that three Raiders had from a team close to us that was in my company and our Command had gotten killed in an Insider attack three days before dude and they were all close to us and we were on a mission when we heard the Medevac call and we had to cancel the like we we weren't going to stay out there overnight after hearing that that there were three those three guys got
killed and there was one wounded like uh you know that was like and then we guys went back for the funeral from that and so like that's all happening there was a couple other Raiders said they gotten killed I think in Kandahar and within that week um and uh so there's a lot going on and uh two and then on three days later on August 13th and we had just gotten a new so I lived in a little uh kind of like Supply hub uh base you know and the main team lived at a different
base that was like a click away like a kilometer you know through the green zone that's also filled with IED so it might take you a little longer to get there but it's it's there right and so for us we're right next to the Village so that's what we're doing a lot of the village engagement and like Logistics and whatever else so uh but just knowing that at this little thing there's only three operators there's an Army infantry Squad and there's the Army and there's the Afghan Special Forces team and the Terps that's all we
had and so this other this other spot has it's like Army Squad and the whole team and all the reinforcements and all the stuff so there's only three guys over here yeah yeah and there was a lot of there was a lot of our team was gone at that point because like we would do uh logistical runs sometimes to camp leatherneck you know to get ammo supplies whatever it is come back so yeah guys that were gone so we were like down so uh so anyway I would get woken up in the morning and uh
you know I'm training um every week I'm doing training classes and then I filled up my how many guys I could have on my payroll so then I had made a deal with the Army SF team that basically you guys have more availability for on your roster if we train this other guy to set up a checkpoint at his village can we put those 20 guys under your guys when yes solid you know I mean does that make sense yeah so we did that we made that deal we trained These Guys these Afghan guys and
then they didn't want to work for the SF guys because they trained with me or would they train with us so their culture they're like no you're our leader you trained us it's like whoa no that wasn't our agreement you know like you're supposed to be with these guys so there was this whole Fallout with this guy that was supposed to work as an Afghan local police Commander that wouldn't work for the Army SF guys so I told him I was basically telling him like dude when he would come to the gate to talk to
me and I would go out there and be like go away like dude because he refused to do we trained him and did everything we had all the weapons we had everything set up and he's getting beat up by the Taliban in his village like he's getting all these things are happening it's like dude Now's the Time like you know and I and so he so I got woken up this morning with this guy that's been coming causing all these problems like saying he's gonna do this stuff never fulfilled anything so I get woken up
at 7 A.M I go out to the gate you know and I'm like dude go away you know it's always a story like you know whatever I have with my interpreter this is during Ramadan and it's during uh it's hot dude it's like 130 like 100 plus degrees all day long and we just got a new arm Afghan Special Forces team so that's like the background of it you know a week ago so we just started training with these guys and from the looks of it we were calling them the force Recon Afghan SF team
because they all had really long beards and they were like Fighters where we got into some serious like situations with our last Afghan SF team and they did not look like Fighters but when it came down to it they performed you know yeah but those guys that we had that relationship with that we went through those missions with and survived they were gone now we had these new guys and all I had was just the experience of them training meet with me in the Afghan local police because they were like kind of the advisors helping
to train them in a way and it was a great experience so far with these guys but little did I know you know that one of them was like had it out you know with whatever with everyone with them with us with the whole thing and like you know decided to vote that morning and went up to the tower you know we have these three little security towers and we get attacked almost every day from the village so like the towers are you know attacking TR like Target reference points and and bat enemy positions in
the village right that are attacking us every day um pretty much so you would it's hard to think psychologically it was hard to think because that was like our security bubble dude you know that like that little bubble was security if you it's not safe to walk outside in the daytime it's not safe to expose yourself but inside that little thing especially if you're behind the wall like you're not gonna get hit you know and that you're safe in there there's nothing inside that's going to get you so that's one thing that kind of is
part of it where it's like psychologically when I was sitting there because when I came back in as I went to the we had a little kitchen that was right next to where the interpreters lived and I got like a bowl of cereal and I sat down and I'm sitting at a picnic table like wearing board shorts you know a tank top with like a Glock on my board shorts on a holster and my sunglasses are on top of my head and I'm sitting at a picnic table and I get rocked unconscious boom laughs and
next thing you know I'm on the ground back here that's right by the interpreters living space and I was like doing this weird thing where I was holding my eyes open it was blacked out and I was thinking that because I had this little Polaris that I would cruise around short spaces because it's like it's like but I was you know and the Polaris was right next to the uh um picnic table so for some reason my first thought was that the Polaris exploded on me you know that it detonated yeah like an IED or
something and I was on the ground and uh I was holding my eyes open and I was in very much panic because I was blacked out and I thought I was blinded because my glasses were on my head and I was like in a disparity you know um but uh what it's a weird series of events that happen you know um because once I could see I'm still on the ground but then I start seeing like the Afghan social forces uh you know team Chief that's like the guy that's in charge with the officer the
team Chief is like the leader from my experience so far I see him drop a bag of RPGs and run away you know then I see another guy run out and run out of the co of our compound in the daytime that's like unheard of one of the Afghan SF guys in an enemy Village you know like so that was all like kind of like whoa and then I got um and this guy had been shooting RPGs you know so the first RPG hit close to me right there's shrap Mill in every part of this
table the everything was had traveled there's RPG fins everywhere like he ended up letting loose like 12 of these things oh in a small area so all of our stuff was destroyed all of our Tech equipment our camera systems all that shit's destroyed and like it's like whoa everything's smoking like and we're get and I thought we were locked in with mortars dude so I thought like we were under attack and it was the A-Team and I thought they had us like directly locked in with mortars and they're just dropping on us you know and
I got into The Interpreter who's I'm like uh The Interpreter living space and they're all holding hands like this they're like and I'm have I'm real tired with all the with the interpreters you know and they're like big problem problem and they're all holding hands together I'm like damn dude I gotta like this is gonna do me this is gonna do nobody any good to be in here you know I mean I gotta get out I gotta make moves so I got to the operations center which is just a little bunker covered with sandbags and
when I got in there he's right on top that was where the shooter was dude he's right in the security tower on top so he starts hitting the operations center direct top down with RPGs there's three of four of us inside of there we're all rocked every time that that thing hit there's one guy that was in the that was down under the desk and there was three of us that were standing up and we were rocked every single time and uh it was insane and uh it was a crazy uh thing because there's enemy
everywhere dude there's an enemy in the village everywhere yeah there's aircraft on station that's spawning enemy everywhere there's uh and there's guys that ran out of the compound and it's like what's going on what's Happening and then one of the army guys came over and said one of the Army infantry guys said hey one of the one of the Terps is up here and said that one of the Afghan Special Forces guys has gone crazy in the tower and needs to get killed we're like whoa at least we know what's going on you know what
I mean at least so up to this point you didn't realize this was an active shooter no clue dude we didn't know it was coming from inside at all how much time is best do you think I know I know you probably have no idea but like definitely fight like I'd say five minutes maybe I mean but he dude like there's a lot happening a lot of reloads and like a lot of RPGs and like a lot of like crazy things that are materializing in that five minutes you know there's a lot of like damage
and stuff being done and uh so um you know what ended up happening is we uh with like the the guys that were there that were you know senior to me that were Raiders that were in the luckily in the operations center like helped clear out the compound because we didn't know what was clear and what wasn't at that point now that we have an active shooter who else is an active shooter you don't know so you have to clear everything like it's not safe you know what I'm saying yeah so we clear out we
get out to the side and then when we got to the back all the Afghan Special Forces Guys these like all the OG guys that I've been that are like been so impressive to train with with the long beards and everything they're all handing their rifles like we're done like you guys take you guys help because three of their team members were dead on the ground this guy was killing them shooting active shooter killed their captain you know like because throughout this thing people are like thinking they had a couple other guys thinking we were
getting attacked from outside the village so they initiated the battle drill and they were running up to the tower and the guy was like you come up anymore I'm gonna shoot you and dumb dumb boom so now there's a guy shot in the head on the side of the stairs going up to the tower then now the captain tried to get up on their living space to shoot his own guy once he realized what was going on and as soon as he popped his head up this guy domed him so their Captain got shot killed
fell off he's dead on the ground and then another guy same thing so like so that's why they were all because all their guys who got killed and uh they were like more they were you know so uh they actually were the ones you know to help like we worked with them and got the situation done but dude hold on how'd you get it done that guy's up there in a semi-enclosed position shooting like over 10 RPGs he's done himself he smoked like that that's that whole post was on fire dude like he was like
dying inside he there's no way that guy wasn't dying that the the back blast of each of those RPGs it's almost like doing it in a closed room they were ballistic it was a ballistic post that got shot every day that was bulletproof that didn't have like it wasn't like clear back Blaster oh okay so he was shooting these Rockets yes room yes not even really a room no it's a it's an enclosed post okay yeah I was thinking it was one of those Towers where it was it was open no so it's like dude
you could have shot a a paintball gun at that guy at the end and he probably would have died you know like that's nothing to you know but he he he offed himself by shooting all those rockets in that enclosed position dudes he was on fire you know yeah we called it ghost post after that um but so yeah so that you know that Insider attack thing uh I didn't it was like a at right after it happened because um you know I passed or I failed my mate my exams afterwards so I got flown
out for concussions because I had a loss of consciousness and whatever else but a lot a lot of people got uh tbis on that with all those RPGs and stuff a lot of people got rocked so there was a lot of our team members that got you know flown out but a couple of my teamers took me over and like immediately afterwards and shown me the situation and like show me like the forensics kind of on it like dude look where you were sitting look at this look at like my tray like my cereal like
look at all the stuff there's shrapnel in every single thing they're like you know like took a picture and like like it was um definitely something but then after that I was like when you know got Medevac and then I mean like I said dude our uh we had our exit our executive officer in our company was back lost both of his legs on the previous deployment and was back on that deployment double amputee above the knee hey everybody I'm Sean Ryan click here to subscribe to the Sean Ryan Show YouTube channel for the hottest
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