John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
John Reeves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then everyone went to bed. I laid there just wide awake and laid there wide awake. Like I fucking shut an eye. These motherfuckers are going to cut my dick off and stick it in my mouth. Cause that seems like what they like to do. Uh, and then, uh, finally the middle of the night, I fucking, fucking got my AK. I stuck it in the driver's face.
I drug them out to the truck, like right before sunup and we fucking left the Valley. But like, you know, compromise the mission or save the kid. What do you want? What's it going to be, man? And then, like, you just see this all over the place.
good luck you know what i mean i don't know like what do you think what do they say to you uh well back then it was that guy dalton fury right the guy who wrote kill bin laden was my commander and uh okay it's a long story i wrote i'm writing a book it's finished maybe someone would want to publish it but it's called the singleton and it's about my going out alone um but
I was at my base, I was in a soda bad, and we were just getting rocketed and mortared every day. It's kind of like mortar bait, whatever. And then we had like fucking zero lickies and chewies, no fucking candy, no beef jerky, no fucking Pop-Tarts, no fucking nothing, right? And we're just sucking it up. And like, I got to eat fucking these Afghan motherfuckers cook us food.
And like, I'm eating vegetables. I don't even know what the fuck that vegetable was. I don't even recognize it as a vegetable. You know what I mean? Yeah. I know that's fucking goat. Cause it tastes horrible, but I don't know what the fucking, I don't even know what the fuck they cook me. You know what I mean? It's like, anyway, so I go to my boss and I'm like, yo, Hey,
I want to fucking go to the main base, right, and steal pokey from the fucking chow hall. What's pokey? Pokey bait is a term for like beef jerky, snacks, candy, cookies, like any kind of like snack food, right? So... And my boss is like, yeah, if you schedule the airplanes, you make all the coordinations, you can go. I was like, fucking bet, man. I fucking scheduled the helicopter.
Like, motherfuckers, you don't know how resourceful I can be. You know what I mean? So I scheduled everything for the next night. And then I had a red Toyota truck. I drove my Toyota truck in the back of the Chinook, right? So tight in there, you can't even get out. You got to just sit there, hope you ain't got to piss. They fly me to the main base, fucking land, driving the main base.
Like by this time, like the army's like taken over where like, you gotta like fucking salute on fucking the army base in Afghanistan. Like two weeks ago, like a fucking SAS guy lost a leg in a landmine, you know? But, um, so I go to the base and then the, the commander sees me and, and he's with his sergeant major, another guy. And they're like, this is our fucking guy right here.
So they're like, hey, what are you doing? And I'm like, about to raid the chow hall. Like, what the fuck does it look like I'm doing? You know what I mean? Like, if it's one thing, I'm honest, right? So I was like, yeah, I'm getting pokey for the fucking, for our base. Like, what's up? And they're like, hey, we got a mission for you. And I told them, hey, I'll do it, right?
But you just got to ask my boss if it's all right, because I didn't work for these guys. And they're like, okay, cool. They're in my squadron, but like not my direct boss, right? So they call my boss. My boss says, fine. And like they sit me in this room and they're like, hey, we want you to go out alone. And I'm like, OK. And they're like, explain everything to me. We want you to go out alone.
Like, do you have any questions? And I was like, Mike, my only question was and it wasn't a question. I looked the commander in the eye and I said, tell me you're going to cover my ass if something goes wrong. And he was like, oh, yeah, we'll cover you. Like, yo, you could have gave a fucking better man up with that answer. You know what I mean? Like, you know what I mean?
He gives this like weak answer. And I'm just thinking, well, fuck, man. You know what I mean? Now.
Go out alone, US eyes on, get footage of this guy at his house so we could launch, right? Because the generals back then weren't in line with Bush's dead or alive. And they were, I believe the Pentagon was a bigger hindrance in the beginning of the war than they were worth. How so?
Well, the general at the time that was in charge of us, our task force, right, and we're talking about tier one, like the guy in charge then had like two rules. Number one, you can leave the wire if you get USIs on a target. Okay?
And number two, no one leaves the wire. Well, how the fuck are we going to do number one if we can't leave? Figure it out. So the commander, I was, because I was. When you say leave the wire, what do you mean exactly? Like go out hunting for bad guys. Leave your base. You know what I'm saying? Go out in combat.
But you can leave the base. But you got to get these eyes on to launch a target. So you got to get your recon guys out there doing reconnaissance because we need these reconnaissance and US eyes on to hit these targets. Okay. We want to launch reconnaissance. Yeah. No one leaves a wire. That's kind of how it worked, man. Right.
So the reason they use me is according to the army, the army at every level is great at accountability, right? A hundred percent. We need to know where everyone is at all times. Right. So when I flew to the other base, I was in transit. Right. So they left me in transit for a week. So instead of saying I left the wire, I was just in transit because I was in transit anyway to go get Pop-Tarts.
so they lied to everybody left me my stat and i didn't know this at the time i like like this could have mattered less to me i learned later you know but uh they paperwork nutshell the general and sent out reconnaissance and that was me wow and then they came back with the eyes on and the general agreed to launch the mission and it was a success and no one asked how the fuck did someone leave the wire because no one cared because we were successful you know what i mean
Fuck. Figure it the fuck out. I don't fucking know. I'm not trying to have anything in my head right now.
Yeah.
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