No One is Ready for This Coming War - Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf - #1089

I'm gonna play a little trick for the first time ever in this studio to make you feel a little bit more at home. So you're a man who operated largely in the dark when you were doing raids, when you would have been operating, I imagine, some stuff would have been by day, but other stuff would have been by night. Unless there was an extremely compelling reason to do so. exclusively at night. Oh nice.

Here we go. Transitioning. Evening. And now we're in a blood moon. We usually didn't go out at full moon.

Oh, okay. Because there's too much visibility. Illumination. So you know, even though you can see at night with night vision goggles, we constantly were looking at the illumination, the external illumination, because at some point people can almost see you as well as you can see them with the technological advantage. So we would avoid the high illumination nights and obviously aviators and things that fly that could be backlit against those.

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