Combat in Iraq with ODA 043 | Special Forces Team Sergeant | Grit to Glory Author | Darrell Utt (Round 2)

Combat Story

Ryan Fugit

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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On today’s episode we sit down for round two with Darrell Utt in an episode that is chalked full of combat experiences from his time in 2006 in Iraq and then some stories from his time in 2007 which, one day, will hopefully be a sequel to his book that’s coming out shortly: Grit to Glory.

If you didn’t catch round one last week, Darrell grew up in a really tough home where he stopped his mother from shooting his father at one point and vividly remembered watching his mother walk out of the home for the last time. He found his way to the Army and became a Green Beret, serving in a host of different places but was able to serve as a Team Sergeant for the first time in 2006 taking a fairly junior team into Iraq.

We left off at the very beginning of 2006 where he had just relieved one member of his team on arrival and was almost relieved himself, given a second chance by the commander. Their first successful mission is nothing short of amazing and made for the big screen so sit back and relax as you hear some amazing Combat Stories!

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Show Notes:

00:00 Intro
00:55 Introduction to Combat Story
01:15 Meet Daryl Utt: Green Beret and Master Sergeant
03:28 First Combat Mission: A Significant Capture
04:24 The Honey Trap Operation
15:34 Executing the Plan: Daylight Hit
28:34 Morgue Day: A Heart-Wrenching Experience
44:03 The Day Everything Changed
45:00 Dustwind: A Soldier's Worst Nightmare
46:23 The Al Qaeda Rat Nest
57:16 A Mission Denied
01:12:28 The Grit Code: Principles for Life
01:15:33 Courage is Contagious
01:22:08 Book Release and Future Plans

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0:00.0	We have feed that's over the target and it's saturated with bad guys.
0:07.0	People with weapons on the rooftops, people, weapons in the vehicles, positions, like, they have the whole place locked down.
0:15.0	Like they are ready. He's calling the ground force commander from Bravo 2-3, the ICTF on the ground commander,
0:22.2	and saying, this whole place is saturated with bad guys.
0:26.0	I have a B1 with a fucking thousand pound bomb, whatever.
0:30.2	Like, prepare to drop it.
0:32.3	Just give me the word.
0:34.2	We've had legal look at it.
0:35.7	Everything's legit, armed. And Bravo 23 says, nope. We've had legal look at it. Everything's legit, armed. And Bravo 2-3 says, nope, we got it. We'll take
0:42.8	care of it. We got the force. We're ready. They don't know we're here. We'll be there shortly.
0:48.9	And they went in there, Bravo 2-3 with ICTF guys. And they smoke everybody.
0:55.0	Welcome to combat story. I'm Ryan Fuget and I serve Warzone Tours as an Army attack helicopter pilot and CIA officer over a 15-year career. I'm fascinated by the experiences of the elite in combat. On this show, I interview some of the best to understand what combat felt like on their front lines.
1:12.2	This is combat story.
1:14.9	On today's episode, we sit down for round two with Daryl Ut, a longtime Green Beret and retired
1:20.4	master sergeant in an episode that is chocked full of his combat experiences from not only his
1:25.4	time in Iraq in 2006, but then some stories from
1:28.4	his time in 2007, which one day will hopefully be a sequel to his book that's coming out in
1:33.6	late November, early December, birth to glory. He didn't catch round one last week. Daryl grew up in a
1:39.9	really tough home where he even stopped his mother from shooting his father at one point.
1:45.0	He found his way to the army and became a Green Beret, serving in a host of different places,
1:50.0	but was able to serve as a team sergeant for the first time in 2006, taking a fairly junior team into Iraq.
1:56.0	We left off at the very beginning of 2006 where he had just relieved one member of his team on arrival
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