John Allen
speaker
2,188 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2013
last heard 31 Aug
John Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Unclear what their intentions were generally, but they were fighters.
And they had grenades ready to go.
And the way a grenade works is you pull the pin, you hold the spoon down, and until you release the spoon, it doesn't detonate.
But imagine you get shot and you drop the grenade.
Well now you've booby trapped your body.
It's a way to ensure you're, you know.
Whoever you're up against gets hurt in the process.
As soon as the shooting began, they threw those grenades over the wall, and one of them hit my shoulder and
And landed on the ground and we're all very tightly together.
And I I s I tell people that, you know, we were in
The drone overhead that had spotted this, they had a targeting infrared spotlight on us.
It's almost like uh imagine a flashlight shining down from God that you can only see the light on on night vision, but it was flashing in and out, like you're in a strobe.
And when the grenade came over the wall, I was not one of the people shooting.
I was like sort of holding my position next to the guy shooting.
And I see this grenade come over the wall.
And what happened in the blink of an eye felt like it took 10 minutes.
I see it for a second in the light and then it disappears.
I see it for a second in the light.
It's getting closer and closer to me.
And by the time it's hitting my shoulder, I was super aware that I'm about to die.
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