David French
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3,314 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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My role as the JAG officer was primary.
I had two primary jobs.
Primary job number one.
was helping make these targeting decisions.
Shoot, don't shoot, bomb, don't bomb, those kinds of decisions.
And then primary role number two was I was overseeing detainee operations.
So I was responsible for the treatment of detainees.
I was responsible for their conditions in which they were held.
I just, as soon as we caught a detainee, they were my responsibility at that point.
And then the final thing that was sort of a
thankfully, blessedly, was a very small part of my life, was military justice.
In other words, dealing with soldiers who may have violated the law of war that we just talked about, or soldiers that violated the law in other ways, such as, you know, we were in an environment where it was absolutely prohibited for any of us to drink, for example.
And every now and then, a wife or a girlfriend would send their soldier boyfriend or husband, let's say, vodka in a
in a mouthwash bottle or something like that.
Or sometimes we would have things like fights between soldiers.
But it was super rare.
Our guys were very, very, very disciplined.
So 90% of my job was the rules of engagement.
Do we bomb?
Do we not bomb?
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