Mark Wales
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3,479 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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And this kind of came from Iraq where they would get their tier one, their high-level special ops units, so SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force, and they would chase the top-level commanders in Iraq and they'd just be trying to kill the kind of top-level guys.
And they called it kind of industrial-level counter-leadership operations.
We kind of tried to follow that.
We were doing it on a tight budget, being Australians.
Yeah.
We built what they called a J-PAL, which is a horrible military acronym, Joint Prioritized Effects List.
It was a kill list.
Yeah.
It was a list of guys that were deemed through intelligence operations to be enemy.
Yep.
And we were given legal authorization to target and kill or capture those individuals.
And so all of a sudden, the unit went from what you would call pretty traditional role around –
reconnaissance and combat occasionally, but mostly kind of a bit of reconnaissance missions and long range patrolling into a far more aggressive, we're actually chasing and killing and landing on troops and fighting.
And so that was the kind of, it evolved completely to that style of operation over kind of three, four years.
Yeah.
It was very different.
But the problem was it was then – it just distorted how we're running operators.
It became how many you could kill, how many of that list you could take out.
Each squadron trying to compete with the others.
But I don't think – I remember looking at the list and one of my mates made a joke.
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