Tactical Talk With Allison Barrie
Inside Dangerous Firefights With a SOF CCT Who Called In Air Strikes to Save His Team
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:44:16
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Synopsis
Blow things up today. We are super lucky to have an outstanding operator join us who served with the US Air Force Special Operations. From the middle of a firefight, CCTs get to call in aircraft – helicopters, fighter jets etc – and select what sort of bombs and missiles to unleash on the enemy. Airman Ed Priest in fact was so good at the job he was hand-selected to control all air assets for the protection and movement of the President of the United States on his visit to Afghanistan. That is quite the coveted accolade being chosen to protect the US commander in chief in a war zone. CCTs get to go to the best cool schools and master some serious James Bond kind of stuff from firefights on skis to knife fights deep underwater. So Allison gets Ed to take you deep inside this unseen world of badasses. Ed is also an awesome storyteller so Allison asks him to share some mission tales that will truly knock your socks off. Find out why it was a bad day to be a donkey in Iraq. Uncover the une