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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Out of the 700-plus of us, we had about 100 total who were killed or injured out of that 700.
So we had a high rate of casualties for that phase of the war.
Sorry, how many out of the 700?
About 100 were killed or injured.
And it was a high rate of casualties, especially, you know, it's a high rate of casualties for the unit.
And, you know, I lost—
I lost guys I loved.
I mean, friends, people I was serving with, people, you know, I felt close to me as brothers.
And it was, it's hard to put into words how hard it all was.
That was number one.
Number two was that the enemy was far more, I knew going into it that this enemy was, had no lines that it wouldn't cross.
That was all theoretical to me.
But then when I saw, what we were fighting was not exactly al-Qaeda in Iraq.
They were already transitioning over to ISIS.
And in fact, the branch that was very active in our area was called the Islamic Caliphate of Iraq.
So this is sort of like a proto version of ISIS.
And so everything that you saw, I remember when ISIS just came roaring out of nowhere in like 2014, 2015, and all of these unbelievable atrocities were being broadcast around the world.
Well, we saw all that stuff.
It was all in our area of operations.
It was brutal.
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