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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Uh, I learned that day, like my vehicles are always clean, always fucking clean from that day on. But like, it's a fucking mess. And then, man, they shot up this fucking, this old man, this old lady, like they ran the checkpoint. They were about, they're about to hit the Humvee with the Rangers.
So the kid shot at the driver, but like the kids didn't, the Rangers back then didn't know as much as Rangers know now, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Uh, and the kid like shot the warning shots at the driver, but he hit the brakes and the fucking vehicle will never stop.
If you shoot the brakes, if I don't know if you know that, but, uh, and it fucking hit the Humvee at like fucking 40 miles an hour, broke the transmission and I had to clean up the bodies, uh, I had to set up an HLZ, take them later to the HLZ. You know what I mean? And then it was like my is my first Saddam raid in Iraq. And it was my first experience in Iraq with the Rangers.
And like that day I was fucking fed up with them. You know, like there's some young fucking 18 year old kid medic in the back of the truck. And like I'm like, hey, fucking give these people morphine. He's like, I'm not supposed to give the enemy morphine, Sergeant. You know what I mean? I'm like, yo, does anyone look like a fucking enemy to you here? Anyone fighting you in the back of the truck?
Then there is no fucking enemies here, bud. Fucking give these people some drugs so at least we ain't got to fucking hear them moan and shit. You know what I mean? And the kid, I had to force him to fucking be humane. You know what I mean? Wow. Because he was just trying to follow orders. Later, they'd be so much better, right? But...
beginning of the war like my first that was my first saddam hit you know what i mean and i was just thinking fucking this is gonna be awesome man that kid was shooting down the street with the 50 cal like imagine just the fucking city street in austin right and you're parked in the middle of the road and you just shoot with a 50 cal off the top of a humvee you know like eight feet off the ground through those tracer rounds would skip down the road it was breaking glass fucking going through cars fucking you know 500 yards down the
road like people scattered like it's amazing you know 50 cows amazing you know what I mean and then I had a fucking pickup guts but well this is the fucked up thing about it is like you you went through all this chaos
Love chaos is my jam, man. As soon as this gets confusing, yo, I got this. You know what I mean? But why is that? I don't fucking know. It seems to be what I do best. Yeah, I think so.
I think it was beaten to me.
Yeah, like, think about it. When I was a kid, the house was chaotic.
You know what I mean? You learn the chaos.
Yeah. Yeah. I guess so. I don't know. I think I'm a normal guy, but like people tell me I'm not. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, like, look, I just feel like, OK, we're all going to die. I'm not going to let it ruin my day. I've been through bad shit. I'm not the fucking victim. I've done bad shit. I'm not the fucking bad guy. You know what I'm saying? Like and then having said that, it's like, I don't know, man, I think it affects everybody differently. But I think, you know, before I retired.
I was burned out. I didn't know I was burned out. I was an asshole every day. Fucking, I was, you know, I mean, I just, fucking guys would come into my office. What do you want? Yeah, too slow. Get the fuck out. When you know what you want, come back. The guy would be like, okay, sorry, major.
always always yeah and then I learned man like I was having a lot I fucking hated my life I was miserable I hated being a sergeant major I hated being army management is what I called it I'm not a leader I'm not a follower I'm not a soldier I'm fucking army management and that shit is fucking dry fucking toast you know what I'm saying and I just got out of fucking Baghdad in 06 fucking killing people like 06 was a great year you know and then I gotta sit on the fucking staff and do this shit like
It's just fucking killing me, Joe. And then, so like, I wasn't a very good star major. So I realized one day, like, man, I think I used to be funny. Like, you know, like when I was a kid, like I'd catch that beating. If I could say that one fucking smart ass comment to you, I might get beat more. But I fucking said my piece. You know what I mean?
Even as a little kid, I'll take the beating to fucking call you an asshole. Right. So like I kind of maybe had that mindset going into it or something. You know what I mean? Yeah. But yeah, man, I just think like I think a lot of it just goes back to my childhood and being able to manage the chaos. One minute we're fighting the next minute, you know, someone's at the front door. Let's go answer.
that's like try recreating that in a lab fuck you know i'm saying no how do you how do you make that you can't i don't know i've only seen like i don't know in my experience of all the guys i know and all the combat i've seen i'd say there's like just i mean you know we're not we're not the common guys you know i mean maybe a dozen in my life you guys on a group chat fuck no Fuck.
Now you don't talk to nobody. You know what I mean? You'll never know who they are. They ain't fucking talking to you, me, fucking nobody. You know what I mean? And some, you know, of the, you know, I maybe know a dozen of those guys, eight probably still work for the dark side of the government as old men, wherever that is.
And the other guys are like raising families and don't want you fucking with them.
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