Tactical Talk With Allison Barrie

Medusa. Overwhelming enemy numbers. Shocking setbacks. Facing extreme danger without fear. Victory in spite of the odds….just a few of the many tough topics you are getting ground truth on today. Operation Medusa was out in Afghanistan. Our guest this week, Green Beret Greg Stube, was there when the epic Battle of Sperwan Ghar went down. Imagine battling an enemy every second of every hour of every day…day after day after day for a week. Add into that the enemy doesn’t just outnumber you- they unleash overwhelming numbers at you. The Green Berets never yielded, they never gave up. They fought on. So much so, they ran out of ammo 4 times. Ammo had to be air dropped to them 4 times so this small number of Green Berets could carry on courageously stopping the Taliban. During this battle, Stube suffered wounds that are beyond imagining from a remotely detonated IED and enemy fire. The wounds were so serious, it could have been fatal. His leg was essentially entirely blown off and that is not a