Sebastian Junger
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2,422 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
Sebastian Junger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's all male.
I mean, the combat infantry is all male, probably 70% or 80% white, sort of working class, middle class people.
kids, right?
And they really, unlike during Vietnam, they really wanted to be, I was with the 173rd Airborne.
You don't get like sucked into the 173rd Airborne by accident, right?
Like they really wanted to be soldiers and to be in combat.
And, you know, of course they traumatized them and all kinds of other things, but it was really interesting.
So we were out at Restrepo, which was an outpost the size of this room practically, a little bit bigger, but it was very small.
40 men behind sandbags.
For the first few months, there was no generators, no electricity.
There was no cooked food.
There was no running water.
There was like nothing.
We were in combat almost every single day and high casualty rates, absolutely brutal existence.
And the boys were out there.
Tim and I came and went every month or so.
But the boys were out there for 15 months straight and no contact with the outside world, nothing, right?
And when they got back,
They got back to Vicenza, Italy.
This is what I learned about war.
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