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

Pineland Underground

CHAPTER

The Obstacle Helmet Was Like a Participation Trophy

"Everybody who came in my office, their little piece was the most important thing ever," he says. "When you talk to team, I briefed every single SLC class, 128 students, E7s from teams." He'd be like, what equipment do you have in your team room that you want to get rid of? 128 hands, they tell you 128 hands, right? And they're like, yeah, we need toget rid of that thermal weapon sites. But it's such a broken system that when you turn in these stuff and you'll never get it back... It's just a nightmare for everybody because I became the bad guy".

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