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#325 - Michael Kadenacy - Flying in Vietnam to Racing Sailboats

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Father to Black Rifle's CFO, Michael Kadenacy has flown in 85 combat missions in Vietnam. Completed his undergrad at U of Nebraska while on active duty. Practice law in LA and retired to France to race sailboats. Listen as Evan and Mike discuss his time in Vietnam, how to face fear, and more!

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

Free Dool!

0:03.0

Oh!

0:04.0

Oh!

0:06.0

What

0:08.0

Is you view company in the Infancis? Biencieur.

0:17.0

I don't know if you're.

0:20.0

Yeah, parlle in the Infancis.

0:22.0

A poor. So the most interesting question that I have is, seeing what you've seen, especially in the early 1960s, and we'll get into your career.

0:37.0

But tell me in detail the, because fear is a heck of a motivator and going into a combat situation or a kinetic situation especially in the jungle.

0:54.0

The way you interpret it can be a wide variety of things, but the first time you were truly scared.

1:08.5

What do that feel like and what was what were you doing?

1:11.5

Well, probably my...

1:14.0

We used to defend villages and this is one of our, especially at night.

1:20.0

And I can remember a couple of incidents where you really got afraid. And one of them,

1:26.8

when we were defending a particular village and the usually there was an A team, special forces A team helping the village.

1:37.4

They were down in the village.

1:38.9

And what they would do is they had a tee of tin cans with rags in them and then if they were the Viet Cong

1:48.6

were coming in at one direction they would point the tee and then we would come in and lay ordinance down.

1:55.0

Right.

1:56.0

However, what you have to understand is there's not a lot of lights over the jungle.

2:01.0

So you have a village here, there's a few lights there, and it's hilly country,

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