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Ramadi Podcast
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This veteran-led podcast highlights the experiences of Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, starting with their harrowing 2004 deployment to Ramadi; a 9 month combat tour which resulted in the highest casualties in a single deployment - a deployment that most Americans have never heard about. Through candid conversations surrounding these events, the series also explores earlier experiences that shaped the Marines, emphasizing their grit, humor, and humanity while aiming to honor their stories authentically.

  1. HÁ 1 DIA

    How Much Of Survival In War Is Luck? - Chris Winder (part 1 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail Part 1 with Chris Winder gives us what it feels like to hit the fleet as a brand new PFC and then roll straight into Iraq in 2004. We talk through the small mistakes, the ugly routines, and the weird routines you accept because you don’t know any different yet.  • arriving to the unit and landing in Weapons Company  • rumors, routines, and senior guys’ confidence  • C-141 fear factory  • reflecting on loss in Kuwait • the night vision lens cap mistake • blacked out driving, road hazards, NVG issues  • a rear mounted SAW and good leadership • Hurricane Point living conditions • “short starts” and the body’s stress response before rolling out  • Concertina wire accident at the gate  • QRF aftermath, clearing a mosque • IED realities, armor upgrades  • Warlock jammers, detonators, and why trust in tech fades  If you like what you've heard, this is a multi part episode. Make sure you listen to the rest of the story.  ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    57 min

  2. HÁ 1 DIA

    How Much Of Survival In War Is Luck? - Chris Winder (part 2 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail We pick up part 2 with Chris Winder as he walks us through a chaotic moment after an IED blast to the quiet weight of whats in your head during these overwhelming events. He also takes a big picture view including leadership lessons, chemical scares, coming home, and what all of it means two decades later.  • Engineers sweeping for IEDs • Stopping a taxi and losing control of a growing crowd  • A curfew chase • How good leaders raise the bar • Rethinking “shitbag” labels and how the system treats coping  • April 6 bridge watch • The sniper house story • Handling the fallen and seeing the hidden toll of a casualty officers life • CS gas, chemical threats, and changing behavior  • Coming home to Camp Pendleton • What Ramadi means 20 years later to Chris and why it still matters  ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    52 min

  3. HÁ 5 DIAS

    You Don't Mess With Doc - Carlo Dealca (part 1 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail We interview HM3 Carlo Dealca to trace how a Navy Corpsman goes from a clinic and 9/11 at sea to greenside life with 2/4 and earning trust with an infantry unit. The story builds from Kuwait and the convoy to Ramadi into the shock of IEDs and the chaos of April 6 on Easy Street, where Doc treats wounded under fire and remembers every second.  • getting from a branch clinic into an infantry battalion  • why he chooses Corpsman life • training confidence, mental rehearsal, and early-war gear limitations  • building and hauling medical bags, scrounging tourniquets  • the cold convoy north, first impressions of Ramadi  • the first IED hit  • BAS relationships • guard duty stories, local food, and staying healthy in-country  • April 6 kickoff • treating multiple casualties, triage under pressure If you like what you've heard, this is a multi part episode. Make sure you listen to the rest of the story. ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    1h 1min

  4. HÁ 5 DIAS

    You Don't Mess With Doc - Carlo Dealca (part 2 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of Doc Dealca’s memories as a Navy Corpsman in Ramadi 2004, from treating brutal wounds under fire to what follows him home, including grief, anger, work at the VA, and the pull toward camaraderie and purpose. He digs into the decisions and limits that define battlefield triage: how you move casualties under pressure and how dark humor shows up right beside fear. Doc Carlo Dealca also shares a hard memory... the moment when Marines look to the Corpsman for certainty and comfort, but the truth is that you simply don’t know. Then the story widens hooch life and what it’s like to come home with a shorter fuse. • the post-fight high  • treating Conde’s shoulder wound  • rolling through a hostile market  • working a serious gunshot wound under fire  • slower days of searches  • treating civilians caught in crossfire  • the IED that kills Sgt. Ken Conde • hooch life as stress relief  • July car bombs and heavy engagements near key sites  • coming home with a shorter temper  • working at the VA with homelessness and substance abuse as GWOT vets arrive  • choosing policing to find camaraderie  ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    57 min

  5. 15 DE ABR.

    Smokepits and Scuttlebutt - Benjamin Thibeault (part 1 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail Ben Thibeault’s story starts fast, and it only gets faster from there. He describes what it’s like to arrive in Iraq as a new Marine with big briefings, blurry timelines, and the sense that you’re stepping into something nobody can fully explain until it’s already happening. Ben talks about how he kept steady at Hurricane Point, then the warning signs of trouble, and first big fights that make the mission feel 'real'.  • arriving to the fleet through Hawaii and Pendleton chaos  • joining the Marine Corps at 22 after a wake-up call  • March Air Force Base training • Kuwait as the first reality check • first impressions of Ramadi • sandbags, smoke pit culture and why cigarettes became currency  • how he killed time in the hooch • care packages • “absence of the normal” and the city going quiet before April 6  • convoy roles, rear security, and fragmented awareness • April 7 alleyway security under small arms fire and warning shots  • IED strikes, evacuations and the shift from abstract risk to personal loss  if you like what you've heard this is a multi part episode make sure you listen to the rest of the story  ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    51 min

  6. 15 DE ABR.

    Smokepits and Scuttlebutt - Benjamin Thibeault (part 2 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail In Part 2, Ben Thibeault zooms in on the memory that nothing about Ramadi felt built for success, and then digging into what combat looked like when equipment was short, plans changed mid-move, and you still had to bring everyone home. Ben shares blunt memories of recovering wrecked Humvees without a wrecker, dealing with evolving threats and equipment, and split-second problem solving. He wraps with discussions of trust in small unit leadership, and what the legacy is to him.   • recovering disabled Humvees • remembering LCpl Savage's last mission • VBIED blast under the bridge  • changing how we ride and fight • narrowing focus to your sector and fundamentals  • how complacency creeps in • interactions with Iraqi kids and civilians • frustrations with local police • the insurgency adapting • coming home with almost no transition and barracks life  • why reunions and long-form talks help make sense of it all  ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    47 min

  7. 10 DE ABR.

    The Blood Stripes - Lewis Layton (part 1 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail We start off part 1 with Lew Layton to trace how a Marine goes from Okinawa, some California training, and squad leader school... to the confusion and violence of Ramadi in 2004. We swap stories about the gear, the radios, the near misses, and a lot of unique moments about small unit leadership.  • Lew’s background and early leadership roles  • The flight over, Kuwait preparation, and early weapon safety lessons  • First impressions of Ramadi and how thin the handoff feels  • Learning routes, spotting IEDs, and getting hit early  • A casualty evacuation story • Night movement problems • Improvised gear, armor shortages, and hydration discipline  • April 2004 firefights and adapting tactics  • The General Mattis PRR moment and comms frustrations  • IED jamming skepticism and the near misses that stick  if you like what you've heard, this is a multi-part episode. Make sure you listen to the rest of the story. ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    1h 5min

  8. 10 DE ABR.

    The Blood Stripes - Lewis Layton (part 2 of 2)

    Send us Fan Mail We pick up part 2 with Lew Layton and trace how Ramadi shifts from early IED shortcomings to rapid escalation, brutal missions, and losses that still echo decades later. We also talk about the leadership that held things together, the dark humor that kept morale alive, and what service means after a 20+ year career as a Marine leader.  • Early IED awareness, door debates, and why the threat felt unreal at first  • The speed of escalation • April 10 bug hunt operations and how battalion control works in practice  • Moving bodies for accountability and intel, and why it still feels surreal  • Admiration for standout leaders • Late April and May casualties, including the impact of Savage’s death  • Grief, professionalism, and returning to mission as a coping method  • Why it took twenty years to tell these stories out loud  • Funny hooch moments, rocket immunity, and the role of humor  • Leadership failures elsewhere and the belief that Marines deserve good leaders  ---------------------------------------------- If you like what you heard, please subscribe on your favorite podcast service or follow our webpage for direct downloads @ https://www.buzzsprout.com/2525088 If you are a member of Weapons Company or someone with a story about Weapons Company 2/4 in 2004, please come tell some stories with us - 20 mins or 20 hours! Help paint the canvas of an archival story for others to know what it was like. Contact us @ RamadiPodcast@gmail.com, or via the podcast website above.  All music used with permission by soundbay: https://www.youtube.com/@soundbay_RFM

    1h 13min
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This veteran-led podcast highlights the experiences of Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, starting with their harrowing 2004 deployment to Ramadi; a 9 month combat tour which resulted in the highest casualties in a single deployment - a deployment that most Americans have never heard about. Through candid conversations surrounding these events, the series also explores earlier experiences that shaped the Marines, emphasizing their grit, humor, and humanity while aiming to honor their stories authentically.

Informações

  • Criado por
    Ramadi Podcast
  • Anos de atividade
    2025 - 2026
  • Episódios
    77
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Constant Combat
  • Site do podcast
    Constant Combat

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