Eli Doubletap
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh yeah, it was super crazy.
And I'm kind of breezing over that too.
But it's like, I had this crazy out of body experience.
I remember...
So we were inside the second floor building, and my sniper team was ahead of the entire battalion, how a sniper team's supposed to be used, the eyes and ears of a battalion.
And so on a sniper team back in the day, there's four guys.
So we had my sniper, my team leader, my assistant team leader, both have a bolt gun, sniper rifle.
Then the radio operator, myself being the point man, have a M16, right, the musket.
We were the only guys that hit ACOGs.
And then we actually filled the ACOGs on that deployment.
They started issuing it out to the Marines.
You know, this is like back in the day where we were the only ones that had radios and seven Bravos.
And then the grunts had like one pair of night vision for like 12 guys, one radio for- And it's a monocle.
It was a two into one seven Bravo where like, is that a car, a building, a dead body?
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Yeah.
We actually had a fours on my deployment.
And then I remember seeing like my first M four in like combat, like in the real world, I'm like, bro, can I, can I hold your gun?
Like, that's how like, like googly eye was.
I'm like, I'm here walking with this like musket, right?