The Man Who Was Too Dangerous For America to Retire

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  @gregrobertson5576 · 3 months ago

  In early 2002, I deployed to Afghanistan. I was C Co. 1/75. I remember seeing what I thought was a man in is 70's humping it around. He was wearing woodland camo jacket and a pair of rust brown dungarees. Knowing what I know now because of books,podcasts, and such. I am pretty sure that was Billy Waugh.

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• VA

  @vanguradfox2584 · 3 months ago

  Being a 71 year old active combat CIA operator is one hell of a resume

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• MI

  @MinnesotaBeekeeper · 3 months ago

  Waugh was cremated. A portion of his ashes were returned to his birthplace of Bastrop, Texas, while in accordance with his wishes, the remainder was scattered by a HALO jump team in a parachute jump over Raeford Drop Zone in Raeford, North Carolina.

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• SL

  @Slayer1194-e5n · 3 months ago

  Needs to be a movie about Billy.

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• JO

  @jokodihaynes419 · 3 months ago

  "Treat your men like your beloved sons and they will follow you into the deepest valley"-Sun Tzu the art of war

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• AN

  @andrewhoward4523 · 3 months ago

  Talk about a true American badass. Celebrated his 72nd birthday in the mountains of Afghanistan, chasing Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. This is the kind of person we should build statues of.

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• TO

  @TooMuch637 · 3 months ago

  These are the types of videos that made Dark Docs popular. I don't know how they fell off so hard but this video of Billy Waugh was fantastic.

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• JE

  @Jeremi-z3u · 3 months ago

  Im almost 50 and I knew a man who was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam, &nbsp;was shot down 4 times, &nbsp;3 of those times he was the only survivor. &nbsp;<br>r.i.p. Stanton &quot;Hack&quot; Harris.

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• DA

  @dalesimpson8083 · 3 months ago

  Billy Waugh was a National Treasure, so glad I got to meet him several times through SF.

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• ZE

  @zegaracosmus · 3 months ago

  Bout damn time billy got this video

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• BR

  @bradkempton7905 · 3 months ago

  I read Billy&apos;s book, &quot;Hunting the Jackel&quot; and I kept having to remind myself that it was a true story and he only wrote about the things he was allowed to talk about. His career is so insane that Hollywood producers would probably refuse to make a movie about it due to it being too unrealistic. He was the &quot;old man&quot; in Vietnam, but yet, He was one of the first into Afghanistan. Freaking insane.

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• SH

  @Shadow_of_Giants · 3 months ago

  How did enemy not hear him with a set of the world largest brass balls clanking?

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