Elliot Ackerman
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2 Dec
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Might as well wear my blazer.
So I don't consider myself a fashionista.
I definitely consider myself someone who tries to pay attention to the small things and live life with intention.
Anytime, anytime.
We can back-channel for Doug.
Well, you know, when I when I worked in the zero units, you know, our mission was we went after very high level Taliban and Al Qaeda leadership.
I mean, I remember the first day I showed up on the zero unit, literally the first night working with that unit, I went after a top 10 Al Qaeda target, a very bad guy in the Korangal Valley.
and standing next to me on that mission, it was basically, there were like three Americans and 250 Afghans.
And we got that guy that night, you know, and we worked, you know, long time members of SEAL Team Six, the US Army Rangers.
And, you know, what happened in DC is like, is inexcusable, completely unacceptable.
Um, but, and I understand for most Americans, it's sort of an abstraction.
You, they have no idea what the zero units are and suddenly they're in the headlines and that can be, that can be scary.
So, but from someone who's spent time in those units, I'll tell you, you know, my war buddies, many of them are athletes.
And we did everything that I did with the Marines you mentioned in that citation.
I mean, we fought together.
We bled beside one another.
And many of those Afghans died.
And they died not because they wanted to live in a backward-facing Afghanistan that included practices like Bacha Bazi and the Chai Boys, which I listened to your previous segment.
They wanted to live in an Afghanistan that's forward-looking and different.
And that didn't work.
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