John Allen

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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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I really good at it.

I did all the things that I was trained to do.

And if you evaluated our tour in Afghanistan, you would say, wow, you guys were really effective over there.

Like you you did a bunch of things you were supposed to do.

And I was a part of that.

But then I'm a human, and so it's just

It'd be one thing if it felt like there was a boogeyman.

Like if it felt like there was a clear existential threat that we were quelling.

But it never really felt that way.

It felt like we were in somebody else's land and they were defending themselves a lot of the time.

Not all the time, because there were plenty of horrible people we came in touch with.

But like the the the father, like he had a shitty shotgun with slug rounds.

He fired like one slug round.

And then he gets obliterated because you you can't do that.

We also came into his house in the middle of the night.

Now we had intelligence that said that there was something in there worth going for.

But what would happen if someone barged into your house in the middle of the night?

Is it is it possible you might you might defend yourself?

Yeah.

Especially if your kids are there.

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