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Shenanigans | One man's journey from Irish Special Forces to a Mogadishu mercenary to U.S. Green Beret

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The American Military Is All Behind Close, Right?

In America, it's all centralized. I went into my local hometown battalion, trained in my local hometown and served in that unit when I was done. The instructors that we had were just NCOs who are pulled from the ranks said, Hey, you're training recruits for the next six months. It's hard to put an American mindset on a foreign army because when you grew up in the U.S., things are very foreign to you. We used soldiers to escort cash because the armored trucks didn't have guns,. That was one of the duties I did. Even even in special operations, you're used in a SWAT team role inside your own country. So it's all domestically

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