John Crawley

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Anything Goes with James English · US Marine Fighting for the IRA - John Crawley Tells His Story · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

And, you know, people picture special forces as these, you know, Rambo types and all, you know, and I probably did too.

But I remember when I actually got to the recon indoctrination program, which is the six weeks initiation torture session for six weeks,

uh you know there was about a dozen other guys there and i was looking around me at these these muscle-bound adonises and these high school wrestlers and these weightlifters i remember thinking oh my god i don't have a chance here you know and within about three days they half them were crying and going home you know so it was my first real um my first real initiation into the concept that it's not the size of the

dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight and the dog that runs through in the end, you know?

And, uh, so I got through the indoctrination program, got into the recon teams and then, you know, it was very intense training.

Uh, I enjoyed being in recon actually, once I got into an actual unit, because, uh, we worked basically in four man teams was the training was behind enemy lines.

And, uh, I did scuba training and I did parachute training and I did

You know, submarine training, going in out of a submarine submerged at night and swimming ashore, coming back into it.

You know, pretty exciting stuff, you know.

But it was interesting.

But what I really liked about recon, I think, was that it wasn't like in the infantry.

In the infantry, they tell you, in the Marines, you're not paid to think, you're paid to react.

In recon, because you're behind the lines, because you have no officers, because there's nobody you can ask, you know, for permission to do anything, you have to think for yourself.

So it was a unit with a lot more initiative and a lot more, you know,

Yeah.

Very interesting.

Very interesting time.

Really good guys.

And yeah, it was excellent training.

And I learned a lot about leadership and I learned a lot about what motivates people.

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