Chris Fettes

But, you know, it's like right at the last minute before this election.

So it started actually kind of a cool story. wasn't supposed to be there. So I made a decision to get out when I was in the middle of my previous deployment in Somalia. I was a team leader at this outstation, and we were pretty remote out there. We were doing some cool shit. We stayed up in this mountain for 22 days. That's where the 900-yard shot happened on a big ambush. Oh, yeah. Tell that.

So it started actually kind of a cool story. wasn't supposed to be there. So I made a decision to get out when I was in the middle of my previous deployment in Somalia. I was a team leader at this outstation, and we were pretty remote out there. We were doing some cool shit. We stayed up in this mountain for 22 days. That's where the 900-yard shot happened on a big ambush. Oh, yeah. Tell that.

So it started actually kind of a cool story. wasn't supposed to be there. So I made a decision to get out when I was in the middle of my previous deployment in Somalia. I was a team leader at this outstation, and we were pretty remote out there. We were doing some cool shit. We stayed up in this mountain for 22 days. That's where the 900-yard shot happened on a big ambush. Oh, yeah. Tell that.

We got to hear that one. Sorry.

We got to hear that one. Sorry.

We got to hear that one. Sorry.

It was outside of our... normal operation deck but these isis somalia slash al-shabaab terrorists um had gone up into this little oasis of a village up in the mountain. It was nice. It had a waterfall, date trees. It was really green, you know, just in the middle of a desert with nothing else. And so, you know, some people have been living in this village for decades. And...

It was outside of our... normal operation deck but these isis somalia slash al-shabaab terrorists um had gone up into this little oasis of a village up in the mountain. It was nice. It had a waterfall, date trees. It was really green, you know, just in the middle of a desert with nothing else. And so, you know, some people have been living in this village for decades. And...

It was outside of our... normal operation deck but these isis somalia slash al-shabaab terrorists um had gone up into this little oasis of a village up in the mountain. It was nice. It had a waterfall, date trees. It was really green, you know, just in the middle of a desert with nothing else. And so, you know, some people have been living in this village for decades. And...

This place since has become sort of a safe haven for bad guys to go. It's like a vacation spot or something because it's nice up there. So these guys decided to just go take it over. So they go up and essentially kill all the villagers and move them out of there and essentially take over the spot. They're like, cool, it's ours now. We're going to relax here.

This place since has become sort of a safe haven for bad guys to go. It's like a vacation spot or something because it's nice up there. So these guys decided to just go take it over. So they go up and essentially kill all the villagers and move them out of there and essentially take over the spot. They're like, cool, it's ours now. We're going to relax here.

This place since has become sort of a safe haven for bad guys to go. It's like a vacation spot or something because it's nice up there. So these guys decided to just go take it over. So they go up and essentially kill all the villagers and move them out of there and essentially take over the spot. They're like, cool, it's ours now. We're going to relax here.

And it was such a profound sort of wrongdoing that we got approved to go up there and clear them out. So we go up there. It was a long planning process to get it all. I mean, we were getting like Humvees from Dermo and repurposing them and getting them ready and going up there and training, you know, for a long time. And we went up there.

And it was such a profound sort of wrongdoing that we got approved to go up there and clear them out. So we go up there. It was a long planning process to get it all. I mean, we were getting like Humvees from Dermo and repurposing them and getting them ready and going up there and training, you know, for a long time. And we went up there.

And it was such a profound sort of wrongdoing that we got approved to go up there and clear them out. So we go up there. It was a long planning process to get it all. I mean, we were getting like Humvees from Dermo and repurposing them and getting them ready and going up there and training, you know, for a long time. And we went up there.

And, you know, we've had partner force vehicles in front of us and, you know, we anticipated an ambush and then there was this big ambush. To get up there was on these like really tight switchbacks. So they're taking a lot of time. And so, you know, IEDs were placed up there and, you know, one of the partner force trucks got blown up and flipped over.

And, you know, we've had partner force vehicles in front of us and, you know, we anticipated an ambush and then there was this big ambush. To get up there was on these like really tight switchbacks. So they're taking a lot of time. And so, you know, IEDs were placed up there and, you know, one of the partner force trucks got blown up and flipped over.

And, you know, we've had partner force vehicles in front of us and, you know, we anticipated an ambush and then there was this big ambush. To get up there was on these like really tight switchbacks. So they're taking a lot of time. And so, you know, IEDs were placed up there and, you know, one of the partner force trucks got blown up and flipped over.

So we've got now our team corpsmen and medics and stuff over there working on those guys. And we're stuck on this switchback just getting lit up from RPGs and PKM and AK from somewhere. And some of them are like, where are these coming from? But we had some turret guns. We had some 40-mic guns up on the Humvees that were just super powerful weapons.