020: Rob Graham. POW Snatch with a Bow and Arrow.
SOGCast: Untold Stories of MAC V SOG
John Stryker Meyer
5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Rob Graham, CCS SOG Recon man who used bow and arrow on top secret Cambodian mission and POW snatch.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Sawcast number 20. Today we are joined by Robert Graham who ran |
| 0:07.4 | Recon missions out of CCS and as we get started again we always thank Jaco Willing |
| 0:13.0 | Productions for making these Sawcasts possible and today is Sawcast 20. Rob welcome to the show. |
| 0:19.6 | Thank you. And your unique history here with us because we've only had one other CCS |
| 0:27.1 | Recon Hatchet Force man and Marcus Witt and so glad you joined us in your history |
| 0:33.4 | it's kind of unique because you're one of the few Canadians who left Canada to come fight |
| 0:38.8 | with special forces and then you ended up in SAG so how will that start for you? |
| 0:44.5 | Well I was kind of a lost soul I was hitchhiking around Canada and ended up actually joining |
| 0:51.4 | in the circus in Calgary and traveled with them until they went back into the US and they |
| 0:56.8 | wouldn't let me in the US and so I ended up buying a 59 Carmen gear and I drove down to Acapoco |
| 1:04.6 | Hustle there because in the circus being a barker and doing what I was doing on the circus I learned |
| 1:10.1 | how to hustle pretty well and so I was living down in Acapoco for a while and living off the Canadian |
| 1:16.5 | Navy sailors would come in that's where there are in our place. Sure. And so I made a little |
| 1:21.0 | living there and stayed there for about a year I guess they're about to excuse me and decided well |
| 1:26.1 | I better head back up to Canada and I was traveling with a guy who just got another army |
| 1:31.9 | and man that sounds pretty interesting so I stopped off at Buffalo and went into the post office |
| 1:38.4 | went into the Marines thing there and I said well I want to join the Marine Corps I want to go to |
| 1:42.2 | Vietnam and he goes oh you know yeah it's Danny he said but and I said I'm from Canada and you know |
| 1:49.6 | oh sorry we we don't take Canadians and there's a bunch of reasons why but we don't take Canadians |
| 1:55.6 | and I went oh man I really had my heart set on doing this sort of thing and he said why don't you |
| 1:59.9 | go down the hall the army takes anybody so I did I went down the army and signed up and they did |
| 2:05.9 | yep and they signed up they said well what do you want because you could pick your MOS more or |
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