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Dale Hanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2365 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

and then they took him over to the trying harbor and started going out to sea and when they got significantly out to sea and the sharks were thick um they lifted him up so that his head was shown and they with a high standard with a silencer they put two rounds in his head stuck him back into the the sack and dumped him overboard into the ocean ended the problem

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

But somehow the press got word, and I don't know how, and the United States government went and arrested Colonel Rowe, the commander of all special forces in Vietnam.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

They put him in stockade prison in Long Vinh, outside of Saigon.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

along with seven of his people, and they were there and had long been in jail for a long time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

No shit.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

Anyway, and even to back up further, Abrams hated Special Forces, and he did not like them at all for one thing,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

The people in Special Forces would have been his officer corps because they were the top echelon intelligence and character and all that stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

If there were no Green Berets, he'd have an officer corps.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

But anyway, he put them in stockade and kept them there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

Well, the mission that we were on when we killed the Chinese couriers and we brought that back and actually the mission isn't done yet because the communists, when we took out those Chinese, they knew they had something really big.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

We had something big because there's two dead bodies and one of them has stripped skin and the whole thing they knew and the satchel charge is gone.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

So it's like every communist in that part of the country was just charging, trying to get us.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

And we were trying our best to get out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

And the next afternoon, we had more firefights.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

And then this one, I got shot in the back of the head, and the bullet went across my head.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

Yeah, but I didn't pass out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

I remember just as if it was yesterday, the sound I made was gah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

I just, gah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

I don't know why you remember some things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#260 Dale Hanson - Why MACV-SOG Had an 85% Casualty Rate and 1-in-4000 Odds

But anyway, I reached back with my good hand and with my fingernails, I raked it across and the shrapnel came out.