John Crawley

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1,569 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Apr

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and, you know, learned a lot about, you know, it's not what you say, it's what you do that counts, you know?

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry, it's reconnaissance.

Yeah, so that's the elite of the elite.

That's the elite of the Marine Corps.

Special forces.

At the time, yeah.

Now...

Now it's called MARSOC, Marine Special Operations Command.

But in my time, it was the Marine Special Forces Unit.

And you're basically trained to go behind enemy lines and gather information, carry out raids, ambushes, that type of thing.

Call in artillery, airstrikes, naval gunfire, very comprehensive training, far more than you would get in an infantry unit.

I remember being told one time, I was calling in airstrikes one time, F-4 Phantoms, you know, calling in airstrikes on a training mission.

And I remember the officer there telling me he had worked with some South American army.

And he says, down there, he says, you have to be a colonel before they let you use a radio.

Like, you know, but there was I, like a Lance Corporal calling in airstrikes, you know.

So it was just, you know, a great difference in initiative and that type of thing.

What's the training like to be in recon?

Well, it's tough physical training.

I mean, the toughest thing, there's two disadvantages that I found that made me kind of concerned I mightn't get through the training.

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