Eddie Robertson
speaker
4,943 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Eddie Robertson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, Calico Jack pirate flags.
They were loud and plout.
Oh, no, no.
That was Morpheus, the black guy that was cruising around Baghdad in a trench coat with a samurai sword.
Fucking body yard dude or whatever.
But so yeah, that was pretty, you know, like, yeah, that was kind of like, and living out at Biap, you know, at the airport, man, like, you know, the indirect fire coming in.
And I remember the first day I got there, I was looking around going, what the fuck are those blimps up in the air?
You know, what do those blimps do?
And then I realised what they were for.
And, you know, first time you hear like a, you know, a counterfire artillery battery, you know, going off and you're like, is that incoming or outgoing?
You know, like it was just, it was a pretty steep learning curve.
But yeah, look, you know, and...
got on with it.
Oh, it got worse, man.
That's what I mean, yeah.
Like, 04 and sort of 05, but then sort of towards the end of 05, 06, and it was just, yeah, it was just ramped up, man, and it was –
It was fucking crazy, dude.
Look, people can come on here and talk about it was a country that was in the height of a civil war, an insurgency against an occupying military force.
And looking back on it now, like Paul Bremer from the Coalition Provisional Authority, I think one of the biggest mistakes they made was
to get the Iraqi army and basically disband them.
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