David French
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3,314 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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You know, we probably faced, I would say,
Just ballparking, out of the 300 or so days that we were in that particular base, I think we faced combat, our unit did, about 250 of those days.
I would say, you know, maybe getting close to 80% of the days we were downrange, somebody in our unit, some element of our unit was attacked in some way.
And that entire time, all of that intensity, I think that at most...
we ended up harming, killing less than five civilians the whole time in all of that intense combat.
And that was no accident.
That was a result of incredible amount of discipline, just an incredible amount of discipline.
And in one of those civilian death incidents, it was because an artillery shell just fell short.
Like it wasn't
We had the proper target.
We had the proper technology.
We had everything.
It was just a dud shell that fell short and just horrible, horrible.
But that's the level of discipline.
I know there were other incidents in Iraq where we could talk about Abu Ghraib.
We could talk about some incidents in Western Iraq and other places where American soldiers committed war crimes.
But that was not my unit.
That was not the guys I served with.
And in fact, I'm literally in daily contact with the staff officers I served with.
We get together all the time.
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