Tag: jason

  • Discussion on staying safe during air raids

    Vic: Could you just say the thing you said again about how you think that maybe people are more interested in luck when they’re dealing with IEDs? Jason: Yeah. I just think the nature of the threat that IEDs pose in the wars that the US and the UK and NATO and definitely thought Iraq…

  • Jason on premonitions

    Jason: It’s big in the US military. It’s not formalized in any way, but there are stories about people driving through neighbourhoods where an IED’s been planted and they can sense that something’s off, and then deviate from what they’re gonna do in some way. And it turns out yeah there is an IED laying…

  • Jason on good luck charms in Afghanistan

    Vic: <laughs> Proceed Jason: Before my first combat tour in Afghanistan- my mom, who’s sort of, a bit of a lapsed Catholic but still semi-practicing, wanted to give me a St. Christopher medal. St. Christopher is the patron saint of travellers and soldiers, maybe, I don’t know. And she figured that two St. Christopher’s medals…

  • Jason on stories filtering into the US

    [Note: This interview took place whilst volunteering in a kitchen in Kyiv] Vic:  So that’s recording now. Hopefully it’ll pick you up, there’s definitely background noise here! But yeah, if you could tell me the characters that you’ve just mentioned? Jason: Yeah. I’m definitely not as immersed in this as the volunteers who have been…