we hear man down he's shot in the head and they just started raining danger close like 105's down his smoke is rising up it looks like something out of a movie so we're putting the bodies together essentially to see how many bodies there were and it got called off pretty quick after you know guys are gagging and it's like dude you guys were picking up limbs yeah and piecing bodies together yeah for an after actions report yeah I think that was the first time where I got a chance to feel like a sniper where you're
using air assets precision rifle um and prior to that I was shooting guys in the tree line we were being ambushed again and an assault team went up to this tree line and I'll never forget looking through the scope they had to walk across this field me and my spotter sniper were tucked in the another wood line and there's a couple hundred meters or so to the next tree line some guys had squirted off the objective and had hunkered down and was setting up an ambush point in the Woodline uh ISR fed that fed us
that information and the assault team started to press him and they have a dog with them the dog's barking he's honing in on something in the Woodline and I see these like flashes I'm like oh that's those are eyeballs you know blinking in the tree line I don't have a clear shot nothing's really happening and then you just see Sparks erupt from the the tree line and long goes down Keith goes down our dog starts running weird shooting through the tree line and making a circle I'm like what is going on I start shooting then
I see long one of the team leaders and he's picking up Keith and we hear man down he's shot in the head and all this stuff right and I'm like what the or what excuse me and I start shooting guys in a tree line but I'm not as I can't really see where the bodies are I can see flashes of light I know I hit one guy after that my spotter he's calling guys out I don't know what happened after if I'm hitting anybody after that I'm laying down more so like suppressive fire as they're
dragging their guys back the dog is just running weird he finally finally come comes back to his dog handler he gets picked up the dog is shot he took around in his side Keith took around through his night vision and long took around through his helmet we called up a Carl gustoff he puts I think it was flette rounds I think into the tree line a what round flette I've never even heard of that it's like a bunch of it's the big ordinance but when it explodes it sends out like shrapnel like razor fragmentation yeah
something like that I was not a goose off guy but I'm pretty sure it was called flet rounds and it would shoot out these like a like shrapnel in you know into the tree line and he shot that it didn't really do much or anything that we could see I think it hit low and that's when we called in the ac130 uh at first the rounds were hitting like they were to the right and behind the guys off quite a distance so I call up and I'm like hey I say uh like left 75 plus
50 or I'm giv calls like that to bracket the the rounds once I saw the rounds hitting where the Ambush was coming from where I knew the guys were at in this sector of the tree line you know fire for effect and they just started raining danger close like 105's down then I remember walking closing the distance after the rounds were expended walking across the field and his smoke is rising up it looks like something out of a movie and on never forget this guy I think he was in shock or something but he's walking
I don't know where he came from but he's walking through this smoke and I had changed mags by this point and I line up with him and he turns to go do his thing I don't know if he was out of it or what but he's about to shoot I perceive or what I don't know what he was going to do but he was just dazed and he's got his um AK with the wrapped up tape around it and he turns and I remember plucking him but it felt like my gun didn't go off or
nothing ejected and I thought I had like a squib round I fired an assault team lights this guy up so I'm stuck looking at empty out I take my mag out looking at what's going on trying to figure out if I have a squib or whatever my guns jacked up I had no idea that I was shooting subsonic I had pulled the wrong mag so I shot subsonic at him and with the subsonic you have to rechamber around each time and it's not enough blow back to chamber the next round I had no idea I
was doing that finally figured it out changed out my mag and we carried on from that mission but I remember going into the tree line seeing body parts and the first thing I came across was a hand and it looked like I here again my mind does a weird trick where I say Mickey Mouse glove like the swollen Mickey Mouse hand glove it looked like that then I saw the arm legs like butt cheek I think heads popped off and weird stuff like that so we were told by our commander we have to figure out
how many guys for our a or after action report to and called it up how many ekia so we're putting the bodies together essentially to see how many bodies there were and it got called off pretty quick after you know guys are gagging and it's like dude you guys were picking up limbs yeah and piecing bodies together yeah for an after actions report yeah oh yeah to make to see how many guys that we killed and we called it off early on like after two or three bodies The Ground Force Commander looks at me he
says Sierra my call sign hey how many guys was you know were're in here I'm like five I know for a fact five so we left it at five had no I'm pretty sure it was is that like standard s so have you done that before yeah I mean not to that degree we've done missions where what's wrong with an estimation like I don't know five five bodies I don't know I don't we've done bda's battle damage assessments where you know you have a big uh Hellfire missile or something would be we had one in
Iraq a Hellfire missile gets called in on a Hilux vehicle blows up we drive out to do a battle damage assessment and examine the bodies take pictures and see how many guys that we you know took out but that was yeah not routine but it happened often damn where yeah if we and cutting off fingers you know but that was not my job I've seen the assault guys do it but yeah taking off or taking teeth we had a suicide bomber working with the FBI and suicide bomber blows himself up in the back of a
pickup truck as we're approaching him I remember seeing uh one of the assault team leaders I didn't like him so I'm just going to call him M he lifts up he flies back to the the air and like something out of a movie uh we get hit with the blast and luckily none of us got injured or hurt but I remember hearing his body parts falling and his head was sitting in the back of the no on the ground near the back of the truck and the FBI guy put it up there and we pulled
some teeth using our Gerber knife and stuff like that um yeah it was routine for us to do that like cutting off fingerprint or fingers and you know taking it to a compound that was not ours I'm by one of those agency you know places and yeah that was uh that was my first experience in marja and it was like that every every mission in Mara all the way until we were about to do our final mission our push and Maria before the Marines came through that Invasion um and our mission was to have two
platoon one was going to be on the East one was going to be on the west we were going to close in and kill everybody outside at night deemed a threat uh and luckily that got called off I was sure we were going to have casualties you know luckily it got called off and we ended up doing a mission out in Kandahar um and we got hit by the Afghan police out there and that was a hell of a ride but margia was like that and some days I would kill one guy some days I'd
kill five six guys you know but it was a it was Mar it was all all like that I didn't find out until I got home I was watching the news in my apartment with my wife and I saw the Marines were going into Maria and that's when it all made sense of like what we were doing there of like oh you know we were supposed to we our whole job was to kill as many fighters enemy Fighters as we c as we possibly could in Maria before the Marines got there and we killed that
deployment like over a thousand guys total you guys you guys killed over a thousand enemy combatants yes oh yeah my wife was there doing the ceremony when they announced it when when they we got our Awards I got two awards from that deployment one was a a valoris the one where I dropped the bombs was the valoris award uh then I have some joint accomodation medals um from that deployment but we smoked a lot of people on that deployment a lot wow yeah a thousand not all bullets though it was a lot of bombs being
dropped and we were killing people every night though every night the ground guys we were killing like as a the entire platoon you could get Man 9 15 20 guys in a night and that was a good you know good night a good night but most of it was a lot of a lot of 500 lb bombs a lot of ordinance a lot of 105s and 30 mic mics and yeah lot of that let's go back to that first mission mhm it sounds like two Rangers were killed that night oh no cool story Keith when
he got shot through his nods the bullet did not penetrate all the way through and deflected so he ended up not getting hit that's the second Ranger I knew who got shot in the head woman CAU well the guy other guy who got shot in his nods he was climbing up on a rooftop on a ladder a sniper he got shot through his nods but I think the bullet went into his brain it didn't kill him he fell off the ladder and I remember him chunking a grenade up there to kill the guy that shot
him in the head and he killed that guy and Keith is the other guy that I knew who got shot through his nods and the bullet didn't kill him but when we got back I remember Keith from when he first came in I'm like dude what did that look like he's like bro I thought it was a a beach ball coming at me I'm like you could see the bullet did you see Trace as a sniper I'm like when you're sniping you could see the trace of the bullet I wanted to know if he could
see the back end of the trace and he didn't know I what I was talking about but he said he thought it was a beach ball someone threw a beach ball at him and it got big and he was knocked down after that uh long got shot in his helmet and he was fine too the dog survived we had to carry him out and I remember the Ambush and walking through the water this River Ravine and the dog Handler we patched him up and he's carrying his dog Chico on his shoulder and us getting am
ambushed and that was the closest one where I shot someone 20 ft away it's a older gentleman who was uh I guess he felt that Allah or whoever was on his side and he wanted to just run through us for whatever reason and we got the call to drop him uh he didn't want to stop we gave him commands I remember shouting at him and and Posh to and putting my red laser on him and circling his chest with it putting around at his feet putting around next to him and he's just focused on coming
at us and I was like damn he's wearing all white never forget it and I look through my scope and I put the scope on it looked like a button on his shirt or a pattern and I pulled the trigger it it was just all white I didn't see body parts or anything it was just an all white what he was wearing the Garment and shot and I looked and then he was down I was like wow that was I never shot someone that close before no matter where you're watching Shan Ryan Show from if
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