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Ep. 2453 - They HATE America…And Here’s Their Plan To Conquer It
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Medal of Honor Recipient Clint Romesha: The Battle of Kamdesh
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Shapiro welcomes Clint Romesha, Medal of Honor recipient and PureTalk brand ambassador, for a conversation that shifts the episode's tone from political polemic to something more elemental. Romesha, characteristically humble, opens by noting that 'true heroes are those that don't come home' — deflecting to the 8 soldiers killed at Combat Outpost Keating on October 3, 2009. He sketches the battle: 300 Taliban fighters attacked at 6 a.m., breached the perimeter, and had the Americans outnumbered 8-to-1 with no safe position outside cover. [1] — Clint Romesha "In 2009 at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, Clint Romesha and roughly 52 Americans were attacked by 300 Taliban fighters in a 15-hour…" 56:40 Romesha describes leading a counterattack to push the enemy off the ammo supply points, shut the front gate, and recover fallen soldiers before the enemy could reach them — a mission he openly acknowledges could have been a 'one-way trip.' He describes the experience not as heroism but as finally doing his job, stripping away the Chuck Norris mythology he grew up with. What stands out most in his telling is the love soldiers had for each other — that, not politics, is what held the line. A 19-year-old soldier named Kopis held the entire eastern perimeter alone in a Humvee for 15 hours; he's now a guidance counselor in Cleveland.
In 2009 at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, Clint Romesha and roughly 52 Americans were attacked by 300 Taliban fighters in a 15-hour firefight the military had deemed unwinnable from an indefensible position. Eight Americans died. Romesha led a counterattack against an enemy that had breached the wire, outnumbered the defenders 8-to-1.
Medal of Honor recipient Clint Romesha described a 2009 firefight at Combat Outpost Keating where roughly 52 Americans and 2 Latvians were attacked by 300 Taliban fighters in a 15-hour battle.
Clint Romesha explains that veterans' biggest challenge isn't trauma — it's identity loss. The day after leaving the military, the unit is gone, the mission is gone, and the sense of belonging vanishes. America's Warrior Partnership exists to plug veterans into existing resources, not reinvent the wheel, connecting each veteran one-on-one to the support they individually need.
