He’s the Only One Who’s Seen the Roberts Ridge Footage 😳
A military veteran discusses his firsthand experience with the Roberts Ridge/Takur Ghar battle, claiming to be the only person who has seen all the footage from the incident. He emphasizes the importance of learning from the battle's lessons to prevent future casualties.
Summary
The speaker, who appears to be a military veteran with direct involvement in the Roberts Ridge/Takur Ghar battle, discusses his ongoing responsibility to share lessons learned from this combat incident. He mentions John Chapman and Britt Slabinski as 'his guys' and expresses a continued sense of responsibility for them. The speaker distinguishes his perspective from others who became involved in 2015 based on edited video footage, noting that he has been involved since 2002 through real-world experience and claims to be the only person who has viewed all video footage of the incident from beginning to end. He emphasizes that his primary concern is ensuring that lessons learned from the battle are passed on to current and future warriors to prevent similar outcomes. The speaker identifies a critical failure in the command and control (C2) system, describing it as broken and attributing the deaths of personnel to a disconnected chain of command that micromanaged inappropriately while ignoring input from soldiers on the ground.
Key Insights
- The speaker claims to be the only person who has seen every video from the Roberts Ridge/Takur Ghar battle from start to finish
- The speaker distinguishes his 2002 real-world experience from others who got involved in 2015 based on edited video
- The speaker identifies the command and control (C2) system as fundamentally broken during the battle
- The speaker attributes the deaths to a disconnected chain of command that micromanaged inappropriately while ignoring ground forces
- The speaker states his only responsibility is ensuring lessons learned are shared with current and future warriors to prevent similar incidents
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Transcript
[0:00] John Chapman and Britt Slabinski were my guys. I still consider them my guys. My only responsibility once that battle ended was to make sure that the lessons that were learned from that battle are shared and passed on to current and future warriors so the same thing never happens to them. And that's all I give a about. I don't have a dog in a fight. I don't have a favorite. They got involved in this in 2015 off an edited video. I've been involved in it since 2002 off real world experience and I'm [0:30] the only guy who's seen every video from start to finish. But what happened on Takur Ghar happened and we got to…
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