John McPhee

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1,262 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Well...

There's a lot of things happening between 9-11 and before we deployed.

I think the original plan is we were supposed to save some hostages in Kabul.

And then we ended up doing the Tora Bora thing.

So what we trained for and what happened were completely different animals.

You know what I mean?

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

You know what I mean?

Just follow what they tell you.

Let's go.

You know what I mean?

You're not in charge.

Someone else is making the calls.

You just got to do your best when the time comes.

Yeah, Tora Bora.

Yeah.

Yeah, so, yeah, we were looking for bin Laden.

The Tora Bora was like a stronghold for bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, whatever they would call themselves, right?

And the Russians could never get in there, right?

And I think somebody, I don't know who said it, but it took 10 of us 10 days.

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