John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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I don't know. I wouldn't say vulnerable, Joe, but I do think this is like there's guys that like fucking make it happen. You probably got guys like this. Any task you give a guy is just like, wait, you're done with that already?
And then I'm one of those guys. That's like one of my better qualities, make it happen. So like fucking go make it happen, motherfucker.
Hey, man, do what you got to do, baby. Like fucking survival of the fittest.
Yeah, and I did hundreds in Iraq. I fucking loved it.
Yeah.
Loved it. He loved being alone, man. I love it. Fuck that. Okay. Think about this, Joe. And you do jujitsu and you fight, right? You want to depend on yourself or you want to depend on yourself and people you don't know what the fuck they're made of. Who the fuck are you going to trust?
Right? So it wasn't really a big stretch for me to be alone. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do.
Yeah, maybe. I don't know. And then my other mindset is like, no matter where I am, no matter what I do, everyone in a 25-yard radius is going to fucking die. Just so I can make it home. And if I had to kill everyone in the whole village, goddamn right, everyone in that fucking village would be dead for me to come home. So I just figured, yo, fucking be ready to fight at all times.
I learned a hundred to one lessons learned, leadership lessons, a hundred to one being alone versus being a pack of 30 motherfuckers. Like, yo, let us come ram this down your fucking throat and we'll call it Tuesday. You know what I mean? Where when I was alone, like, you got to make better decisions. You're a fucking coyote. You're a ghost. You know, you got to make ghost decisions.
The fucking, you know, the bravado, like we're going to kill everybody. The fuck we are. We're not going to fire a shot. Why? Because like you, you fire one shot as a singleton, you better be ready to kill everybody because gunshots is a fucking dinner bell for psychos. You know what I mean? So are you ready? You know what I mean?
And the reality is, is like, I had to think of other shit, do other shit, how to act like a retard, you know? And then I had to get along with people. I had a, had to do so much shit that is out of like even the commando norm as a singleton, you know?
I mean, no. Like, fuck. I mean, I don't fucking know.
Well, we used to tell guys, and I used to tell my guys all the time, and this is a unit thing, but like, I could train a monkey to shoot. I'm training you to think. I don't care about the shooting. Cause if you're thinking right, the shooting will be easy. You know what I'm saying?
Um, but yeah, man, uh, I'll tell you, I thought about writing a leadership book, calling it the singleton and just kind of the lessons I learned, you know, like so few guys have done that. You know, like I see all these, like, you know, I don't know. I don't look at the internet. I don't watch the news. Uh, I don't do any of that. I don't do social media. I have it. I don't fucking look at it.
I don't have it on my phone. It's not worth my sanity. Um, Um, so I'm like a fucking time capsule for fucking the two thousands. You know what I mean? And like, uh, I never understood some of these other like veteran stories. You know, I never, I never kind of look at the lone survivor. I never understood the full story cause I went out alone all the time. That shit didn't happen to me.
Motherfucking seven Taliban on my ass. You want to see seven fucking bodies super quick. You know what I'm saying? Bring them boys up here, you know? So, um, I never really fucking understood some of these other stories because I had such a different experience. I can't fathom if I was with five, you know, the times I was with five guys. You know how many people I was with? Three guys.
You know how many people we killed in the Battle of Tora Bora? Fucking hundreds. I just stopped counting on my first day like. So having said that, like, I don't understand some of these stories because I had the experience I had. You know what I'm saying?
Fuck, I don't know any. You don't know any? I mean, a couple of my buddies, but like not like me. Wow. Yeah. And then once I did it, it was kind of my lot in life.
Uh, I don't know, like fucking 20 chapters. I wrote a big book.
Yeah. So I can't wait to read that book. Shameless plug. If you know anybody who buys books.
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