82nd Airborne Soldiers Endure Heavy Combat in Iraq Invasion - 2003
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- This week’s Urban Valor episode features Army veteran Jason Grammer. Jason grew up in Brewer, Mississippi, fishing, hunting, and spending most of his time outdoors.
Jason was inspired to join the Army after watching a special on Operation Gothic Serpent, commonly referred to as “Black Hawk Down.” He enlisted into the infantry and was assigned to the 82nd Airborne. In this episode, Jason details the heavy combat he and his unit endured during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He leaves us with the struggle to transition out of the military after his experience in the Army.
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Now that posse comatatus is gone they're no longer hero's or good guys.
I'm Grammer's medic. I'm sitting with him at his house right now enjoying all these comments. Great interview! AATW Let's gooooooooooo!
So your the medic that accidentally stuck himself?
@@krisloomis8178yes. We were hauling ass to the CSH on a bumpy road and I dropped the auto injector when I pulled it out of my aid bag. When I picked it back up it was backwards, so I ended up sticking myself in the hand. Not my proudest moment but, he lived and he kept his arm.
@@survibe216thanks for y'all's service I'm in Olive Branch MS about 10 minutes from Memphis TN but that's funny 🤣😭🤣😭
@@survibe216 lmao hey dont sweat it your not only one who did it my buddy stuart lost is hand medic was like fuck your gnna hate me , hes like i was holding it wrong stuck myself
@@survibe216I’m from Tupelo/mooreville, but know Brewer Bottom the place he was talking about getting arrested welll. Me and Corey Burrow from Brewer/Shannon used to go all up and down Town Creek on 4wheelers through Brewer Bottom. Is Jason not going to go get 7 more years for retirement?
Bless all those who have served and supported Vets. Rough stuff man. From Australia.
Thank you for your kinds words and support 🙏🏼
True Patriots! Bring back the draft.
I was in D co 2-325 during the invasion, it is chilling a retelling of what I went through. Everything from getting hazed as a cherry, to missing the first Afghanistan, the scratched, jump into BIAP aka (SIAP), was chilling and brought back a mix of good and terrible memories from my first deployment to Iraq.
Thanks for telling our story bro.
Very good interview this was sent to me from another buddy of mine. 1-325 Aco Iraq ‘03
Also, nice to see all the other comments from ppl like all of us paratroopers from Bragg !
Appreciate you watching 👊🏼🇺🇸🤙🏼
Thank each an EVERYONE of you soldiers for fight for my rights and my freedom. God bless you all. God bless our nation and the ones that are fighting currently. ❤❤
We appreciate your support 🙏🏼
Iraq never threatened you freedoms and rights in any way
My Dad was part of the 82nd Airborne before deploying to Vietnam. In Vietnam he was part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. My Dad was in Vietnam 1969 1970.
Times are different now, because when my Dad got home from Vietnam. There was no support for the mental health issues that veterans go through. My Dad finally went to a support group made up of other Vietnam veterans. In his late 40's early 50's. This group wasn't part of the V.A. or any other government program. Just a bunch of men who all went through similar experiences. All of them had to learn to open up about their experiences. Whether it was in war or back home. Eventually my Dad, who didn't trust the government. Went to o the V.A. and asked for help. He had a serious case of P.T.S.D. and was poisoned from the defoliants that the U.S. Government used in Vietnam.
Even though my Dad is now in his mid 70's, he still has a hard time going through a path in the woods at night.
Eventually my Dad found peace in life, by going back to church.
I am happy that you made it back, i thank you for your service.
Make sure to take care of your mental health. That is the biggest killer of veterans.
I pray for God to continue to help your dad heal and to continue to bless and protect you and your family and friends also thank you to your dad for serving im sure everything he did over there he did for the good of the guys there with him
Your dad was part of an elite infantry unit who did hunts and solo ones at that as most of them did back then.
They were doing Lurp stuff and should've been integrated into the 75th!
@@gbody2617 according to my Dad. Yes he did like being Airborne more than regular infantry. Yes Airborne units are considered elite infantry units.
Now according to my Dad. When he was assigned to an infantry platoon. Not only his platoon, but the entire company was sent out to patrol the central Highlands of Vietnam. Due to many factors. Including lack of personnel. My Dad's company spent the next 5 months out in the jungle. Which he and I have talked to many other veterans of Vietnam. Even those other veterans were surprised how long my Dad spent in the jungle.
Now the central Highlands of Vietnam. Present interesting challenges when you want supply and support people. Let alone military operations. My Dad's unit routinely couldn't get supplies on a regular basis, because of the helicopters of the time. Could not fly in the weather they had in central Highlands. My dad remembers having to eat capture enemy rice, and once eating python. That one of the men in his unit killed.
Now by the time my Dad's unit was pulled back to Basecamp. My Dad's company was down to platoon strength, and my Dad's platoon was down to squad strength.
Now my Dad says. Most of those men his unit lost were not combat related. Disease and sickness, and other injuries. Is where most of the causalities came from. My Dad remembers one man in his unit. Falling down a mountain side, and dislocated his shoulder. That man was immediately evacuated out. Another man ended up with 3 land leeches inside his penis. That man got evacuated to Japan. With a serious infection. (The temperature and humidity in those Central highland jungles, hot and moist enough. For leeches to live on dry land. Hence the name land leeches. Everyone inspected everyone else, looking for land leeches.)
According to my Dad. He wasn't a recon or L.R.P. guy. He was just Airborne infantry doing what his country asked him to do.
@@jonathancathey2334 - My respect goes out to your father and yourself. I'm a little familiar with that unit and they were the unit to get to if you wanted action.
I meant they should've been added to the 75th for the missions they did which was spec-ops level stuff that lurps did and lurps were integrated into the newly formed 75th regiment so I was thinking they should've as well but then it would be a spec-ops ordeal instead of a standalone ordeal and i think they do fine with who they are then and now.
Good day!
My buddy was in the 82nd. He earned the nickname heavydrop. Him and his brother both had parachute failures. One broke his back, and the heavydrop dislocated all his joints from the waist down. Still got the CQB knife he gave me.
We’re they ever able to get back in the fight?
@thomasardizon1430 heavydrop got medically discharged(?) Some time after the accidents. Im unsure of his bros discharge timeline.
I served with Jason in 3rd PLT Cco 2/325. I still keep in touch with him from time to time and he was always one of my favorite dudes, always level headed and cool. It’s an honor to know him.
Ever thought about going back and visiting the scene of your crimes?
@silverparatrooper we need to link up. If you were with Jason in Cco then we were together as well
Same
Did your 1sgt ND is m9 into his driver's leg. I cant remember if it was C co or B co
@@maigepresents5840You think the Islamic extremists give a fk about the women or children they murdered and still continue to do to this day?
You think Hussein cared when he gassed thousands of Iraqi civilians?
We can Say the same about Ancient Rome, invaded Germanic and Celtic lands only to murder them and later force the false religion onto the.
Wow I remember all that. I was C co 2/505 PIR. We were at the machine gun range and everything you described happened to us the exact same way. Called back to the barracks, trucks everywhere, and them huge conex boxes were already there behind Bn HQ. Thought we were leaving right away without any idea of where. Then they closed the gates to base and we were one of the first ones to to base security. We went to NTC also in November of 01. Then about June 2002 3rd brigade left to Afghanistan. What I don’t get is they split up the brigades. 3rd brigade consisted of 1st & 3rd battalion 505 and 2nd battalion 504. They left June of 02. They attached us to 1st battalion. So 1st battalion consisted of 1st & 3rd battalion 504 and is 2/505, and we left January 03. Wow man you brought back some memories. 21 years ago. Where did the time go?
In the bottle Good freinds n a bottle of pills 💊
Brings back memories. I listen to guys like this and almost feel guilty for the CIB that I have. I went to Afghanistan with Task Force Devil in June/July 2002, 2/504 PIR. A short deployment for me, about 5 months. Yeah, I was in C company 2/504 PIR from July 2000- July 2003. Him talking about finding a purpose when you get out is very true.
Eerily similar scene unfolded at Ft Polk same time frame and Carlos nailed it when he said "where has time gone" seems like yesterday
@@wd2romeonever feel guilty man, flush that feeling away because it could have been your unit just the same
@@wd2romeo was in delta 2-504 ole csm huffman we got back and in a few months we hit southern baghdad , charlie had 1sg myers
Thanks for y’all’s service to all men and women past n present!🇺🇸🦅
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I had a cousin and best friend(2 different people)in the 82nd at this time,one went to Iraq the other to Afghanistan,I’m glad to see this video to get an understanding of some of what they went through. Awesome stuff thanks for everyone who served.
My basic training in the winter of ‘87-‘88 at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri was cold and actually fun. AIT there was great! Good food, good training, warm gear for the whole time I didn’t there.
One thing I remember about the time I was in the military is that our equipment was very good. Not great but definitely adequate. My warm weather uniforms I was issued at my duty station were great, and wore well in Panama, Honduras, Fort Lewis, Fort Carson, Hawaii, Philippines, Thailand.
Old school jungle boots were great. I was very satisfied with my ability to have healthy feet as a result of good boots and socks and proper training in their care. The Army, 25th ID, 65th Eng Bn, C Co 2nd Plt. 3rd Squad treated me well and were a great group of people to work for and with.
We took care of each other.
This guy's a very good story teller ❤
C/1-325 AIR. OIF-1. Early Regime Collapse Mission - the Jump on BIAP that was canceled. The other two battalions of the 2nd Brigade of the 82nd in Kuwait had their vehicles rigged for heavy drop. When the ERC mission was cancelled, the vehicles were derigged and the two battalions flew in and airlanded in an abandoned airfield - Talil. The two battalions then drove to the outskirts of As Samawah. Your battalion (the 2-325) met us there. The Brigade then took the bridges over the Euphrates during the 5th Corps' Five Simultaneous Attacks. Later in the month of April the Brigade went by helicopter to the Anbar providence (Ramadi & Al Fallujah). By early May the Brigade was in Baghdad. AIRBORNE.
As Samawah, Al Fallujah, Baghdad.
Nice write up brother, 1/325 and 1/505 same time frame and I remember it all.
You were my CO! AATW!!
@@HAVOCRISING_ ive been lookin for any medics in 1/325 for this
im lookin for a medic in 1-325 during all this its rather important
Thanks for sharing. My story is fairly close to Jason's. Always wanted to be a soldier sonce I was little. Enlisted my junior year of high school for Airborne 11B. Then served later in the Army NG. Love the "crazies" stories. Man, these are so true in the 82nd. Love it.
I know this guy in real life. He is as awesome as this video shows.
I was in A.co 2/325 during the invasion and i remember that battle in AS Samawah.
Shout out to all my fellow combat vets.... if u aint cav.....
great story by jason. for the any non military person watching he explained what the army lingo and life is like.
as a 88m i know first hand on alot of what he is saying, ARMY STRONG!!
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Thanks man
Thank you watching 🙏🏼
RIP DAVID J BABINEAU🙏🙏🙏🙏
😂😂😂 32:30 he funny as hell
I can listen to him tell stories all day
OIF 2 , 1st BN, 6th field artillery, 3rd BCT, 1ID out of Bamberg, Germany...Swift And Bold..... I was in Germany when 9/11 happened
Thank you brother
Appreciate your support.
3/325 OIF 1, had our 20 year reunion last year. 82nd leads the way!
I was there in 03 with 101st. I remember we drove in behind 3rd ID into Iraq we where 11H and had to clear a LZ for 82nd outside Karbala. The 1st sergeant came up to our truck ashamed the the 101st had to clear the LZ. lol alway stuck with me. I also believe I might have been in jump school with you Feb 2001.
was a hotel orignally as well u got you ass worked in a delta company
@@GATOR_MCLUSKY that's for sure I feel like I aged 10 years in that 1 year.
Awesome interview. I got to Charlie company right before you guys returned back from Iraq. I was 1st platoon, January 04-July 2006.
I salute you sir and all the soldiers and marines who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice !🫡 I served in FDF as a Jaeger, ATGM-gunner.
I was on that mission for talil air base. Brings back memories 82nd 307 ENG BN/618th ENG CO NASTY
Jason thanks for sharing your story, I really enjoyed it. It's funny how many stories there are and there all basically the same. Just change the names, the branch (I was usmc) and we all know exactly what your going to say next. We all experienced the same thing. It took me over ten years to get help for ptsd because I thought I was normal. I used to sit every morning having my coffee and watch the armored car do it's delivery and pick up at the grocery store thinking about ambushing them! Luckily I never acted on it. Anyway Jason, thanks again, take good care of your family!
Appreciate you watching. Take care brother.
Really enjoyed the interview.
I was in the 3rd ID Thunder run.
Great detail and a great story 👍
I live in Corinth Mississippi all my life still do
Dude i have to know you! I was 2/325 3rd plt 3rd squad
Great vid thanks
Appreciate you watching
Appreciate you watching
Ammo & armor for those who's ever question their service in war or in time of peace...
There are none closer to ~ the author of pain & sacrifice Himself.
Than those who choose to ~ perform it for the sake & safety of others.
How much more then; those Injured living sacrifices who's performing it daily?
-Former U.S. Paratrooper Sgt 82nd Abn Div. 1/504 back in '74.
The part near the end, when he talks about therapy, he says to the guy - I'm not just gonna volunteer it to you. I thought that situation was interesting.
36:09 😂😂😂 this guy is pure comedy he missed his calling
10th mountain 2nd Combat Team 41st Engineers
Climb 2 glory. 3bct 3-71 cav here 10th mtn hooooahhhh
White Falcon. I was a Red Falcon, 1/325.
Are you my buddy from basic training that we nicked name country Grammer? I was also in your battalion through all this. Bco 1plt
This is an amazing account.
Patrio!!!!!! Lobato!!!!!!! I love you cousin!!!!!! Rest in peace!!!!!!!! Thank you boys for having my primos back and thank you for your service!!!! 🇺🇸
BCT AIT and jump school was a lot different in the 70s. Ground week we had a horizontal ladder to get into the mess hall. (before it was a difac) C/1-540/82ABN
39:15 is that Goggins lol
I was in A Co 1/325 at that time.
Looks like nothing changed since I was in 2/505 in the 90s. You will be tested there everyday. Even when you're in the barracks, you're only as good as your last pt run. You gotta be tough. Just 3 non combat years made me 100 percent disabled.
I’m sorry dude but what?? I spent 9 years in the army as airborne infantry served in the 173rd and the 101st also some NG airborne units along with leg divisions like the 25th, 10th, 4th ID and 3rd ACR and I’m not disabled in a way I need medical, I’m lucky that’s for sure but 3 years in the army in the 82nd and you’re cashed out!!??? That’s crazy bro, what happened you have a chute failure or something?? Worst thing that happened to me was I got stuck up in a tree about 30-40 feet lucky enough to have been able to shimmy down
the valor is urban
Wow I was with 2/319th and we were @ the wash bay and got the call, next thing you know is Long st was like a traffic jam in New York City and about 1 hour later when you looked down Ardennes st every unit had a formation, @ that moment I knew 💩 was real. 3 days later 2BCT was suited and booted. Green Ramp was sooooo congested with soldiers and families and just about every C17, C130, and commercial planes 😮😮😮
Training in the 82nd pre-9/11...get off the roads...that's a high speed avenue of approach....the 82nd in combat post-9/11 attack that built up area by running down the road behind some Humvees.
it was wild in afghan it was harsh terrain and lot of recon work, left then 3 months later we headed to iraq and we had those raggedy trucks small teams and haul ass we didnt have all that armor
The youth of today worry me. I don’t know if there’s many young people today that would have the courage to participate in a Iwo Jima or a D Day. Of course that’s truly what nukes were invented for was to prevent another battle like those. But as fictional Colonel Walter E. Kurtz would say “the strength to do that”
Few people like that left in the world, at least in America. And that should make all of us nervous.
Why would anyone with half a brain want to serve the powers that be in BS conflicts like Iraq of Afghanistan?? Seriously; what good came from it, for Americans? Nothing. Just nothing.
It does make me nervous too. But hard times breed tough men, things are too easy here that no one is as tough. But the tide always turns. Because tough men created easy times for us, but easy time created weak men… and weak men created tough times… so we’re heading onto the other side and we will enter tough times soon😢 it’s scary. I pray we will step up and be strong
@@Heavyisthecrown it’s the death of the family system. We don’t even fight for our families anymore. Marriages failing at over 50 percent. Young people bragging about having two or three “baby moms/dads”. Everyone’s brain stuck in their smart phones. We’re far removed from the Great Generation. The generation that saved the world. The generation that was raised to fix things when broken, to work hard, to respect our elders and our nation. It’s really sad!
I didn't get knocked out I was just in there shooting. I do however remember him almost shooting me. I was almost knocked out though.
Its spelled Grammar. Jason Spelling Grammar. Thanks for you service dude.
Spelling is correct. This is a friend of mine. Jason, thank you very much for sharing!
We appreciate your support 🤙🏼
theres alot we did that poeple dunno cuz its just documented or was focused on special ops , 2002 puchi ghar afghanistan it was 2 platoons of us from 1-504 fighting the mountains of asadabad in pech valley with seals,delta cia, company of rangers showed to help later , we held down and set up op and ran ops out of that place long before it was camp wright, was hardest place i ever been all over afghan and iraq invasion
Thanks for sharing that with us. If you ever want to share your experiences send me an email brother josh@urbanvalor.com 👊🏼🇺🇸🤙🏼
Bro ive been in nangahar,kunar and nuristan all rc east. Deff kunar and nuristan were hot and the terrain was crazy. I was a grunt too. Remember going to OPs that took all damn day to get up to. The mpuntains no joke. And places ive been there was the river running down like keating barge matal ect.
Paras are top soldiers
2004-2005 Iraq
3rd armored calvary. 2003.
What Squadron? MOS?
@@JW-kh5ep HOW BATT 2/3
13bravo
I want to join the military but I have a hand tattoo. Do I have any chance??
Ehhhh it would b hard i bearly got in back in 06 as a combat MOS had to get a wavier for my neck tattoo.
They don't have doors in the latreens 😊
Listening to this guy speak for 40 mins now. Im like 95% sure hes a complete psychopath
Let’s Go White Falcons!
I was WF during the surge
CIB ✅
Op For = opposition force. You play the bad guys for training ops.
Ayyy White Falcons
Why were we risking lives there?
Bush had a vendetta because Sadam tried to kill his dad
like you would know that..
@@swmann2
Jesuit agenda
@@thegraypyst4118it’s true
@@thegraypyst4118 It's pretty common knowledge man.
NG don't count
I served in the 82nd with the combat aviation brigade but no deployments for me unfortunately. Thanks for your service brother, airborne!
Im in Olive Branch MS about 10 minutes from Memphis TN thanks for yalls services ❤❤❤
We appreciate your support 👊🏼🤙🏼🇺🇸
@@UrbanValorTV yes siiiir i appreciate y'all
Leave it to the 82nd to tell you "you got 1 hour to get ready were leaving". Guess while I was in the term "H Minus" was a real thing and not just a slogan lol. Thought it might have just been a Cav thing. Good video. All the way! Airborne...!
2 days without sleep and then walk into a hostile town in Iraq is poor management, mistakes are common from sleep deprived soldiers, they need rest to perform well, it was unnecessary to send them in without sleep ✌️❤️🇬🇧
That walk definitely sucked.
8:58 the invisible hands motions removing the gear you can tell he done removed that sh*t a million times
There is an Airborne trooper he is doing great work in a Hospital in New York State…. #Tony
C 1-325 2nd PLT. Some memories with this vid
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Damn man I’m from Tupelo. We used to go to Brewer Bottom on town creek with our four-wheelers through the farm roads. Guys I used to go with in late 90s are Cops and Highway patrolman Now. Lol
Sir.. consider volunteering for a local fire company ❤
I was there with 1-325 all facts the battle of the bridges
I just needed to hear the story to know it was some army shit
Wtf did the USA gain from being in Iraq? I’d really like to hear
Halliburton, the company Dick Cheney was CEO of just before he became VP, received over a billion dollars in no-bid contracts and more in bidded work. Basically money the military-industrial complex and the oil industry by securing and setting up Kuwaiti oil fields.
Sounds like Darth Cheney
We didn't gain anything but heartache and debt. But that's besides the point of these interviews. The war already happened and people are sharing their stories.
We gained absolute shit over there, caused the start up of one of the worlds worst terrorist groups known to man and lost so many good men, women and body parts. Both coalition forces and the poor Iraqis.
"They" gained plenty. You didn't gain anything.
Crazy how tough it was to fight in that illegal war...
About time to hear about the real mf'ers than all of those spec ops guys!
I remember back when I was getting out of high school, there was a respect of infantry that would lead to a chance of getting into special operations if you made it through and if not then it's no biggie because you could be a stud at a combat unit still but nowadays it's special operations this and that and you could get in right off the streets which is bull$**+!
Thanks for watching brother 🤙🏼
82ND AIRBORNE
Why do SEALS and SF Sneak into buildings to kill people??Then they claim how dangerous their job is.
The 82ND ?? Look!! A building with enemy inside it!! Bye bye Building!!
Finally Division mentioned somewhere on a channel. 3/505 P.I.R. here. ETS 93. AATW. H-MINUS.