Jose Miranda’s deep account includes a handover in Ramadi that felt hollow, and the platoon building their own picture from scratch. From there, it’s a street-level view of the Sofia district fights, rockets fired at a suspected Vehicle born explosive, and the hard call to his mother. Before part 2 starts, Jose recalls what it meant to carry a fallen Marine’s story back to his family.
• joining the Marine Corps
• Okinawa miles that built grit
• thin handoff in Ramadi and designing the guard
• first IEDs and a fast escalation
• the day PFC Geoff Morris was hit
• triage under fire and the medevac sprint
• grief turning to resolve and the Sofia district fight
• TOWs, 203 breaching, and AT4 shots
• reloading by hand, rationing ammo, holding ground
• loudspeakers, shows of force, and blue on blue risk
• why the unit became a family in combat
This is a multi part episode, make sure you listen to the rest of the story.
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