Transcripts For CSPAN2 Flo Groberg 8 Seconds Of Courage 20171202

Everybody well that i hope you joining us is Phillip Carter senior fellow and tractor of military veterans and Society Program at the center for a new american security. His research focuses on issues that face veterans and military personnel for structure and readiness issues and Civil Military relations. His most recent article what america owes its veterans was published in this Current Issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. Serving in iraq from 2052 times to 2006 as an adviser to the state Department Provincial Reconstruction Team mr. Carter returned home to an increasing involvement in Veterans National affairs. As a civilian he is worked in the year as an attorney and business adviser and is currently teaching as an adjunct professor of law at georgetown university. Today he is with us as a moderator and friend of our keynote speaker flo groberg. While mr. Carter makes his way to the stage its my pleasure to introduce captain flo groberg, born in paris. [applause] its never a bad thing to be born in paris and in 2001 and naturalized american citizen after which he became flo groberg. He joined the army in 2008 and was twice deployed to afghanistan. It was during his second appointment that captain groberg captured a suspicious local men making his way to one of our patrols. Four died but many were spared as a result of his swift action but captain groberg spent three years in recovery. In his book 8 seconds of courage which will be available after lunch, he recounts his early life in frances Army Ranger Training and the courage to take a brave action that saved those many lives. How can we think a man whose sense of responsibility inspired him to take that action x. Perhaps president obama had the right idea when in 2015 and on veterans day he awarded our nations highest military honor the congressional medal of honor prominently displayed at the neckline captain flo groberg the first immigrant to be so recognized since the vietnam war. Please join me. [applause] wonderful. Many congratulations to you and thank you for being here with us. [applause] its a real honor and privilege to be here with you and one of the things i took away from your book which had a chance to read this week was despite the metal, despite your incredible bravery you are also a pretty humble and downtoearth guy. Theres this one story that crystallizes that and maybe you could tell everyone about the day that you fell into the sewage. Wow. My first tour in afghanistan and we had an incredibly great idea from the Civil Affairs folks to create, to pass out these cards, business cards to the local afghans in different villages in the point was if you saw the taliban or the taliban came to your village and threaten you or anything called the number on the back of this card and let us know. 75 of them couldnt even read so that was a problem. The best part about this which in plain sight is funny to me we had to put our cell phone numbers so what happened is the locals figured oh if we appear to be helping the americans and we call them and tell them there are taliban here and they think we are friends they will give us fuel and build retaining walls. Heck they are smart so they called us one night and they said the taliban is here and creating havoc so we took off as a unit to the village. To make a long story short the taliban was never there. What happened was instead in the pitch black of dark im over here knocking on doors trying to figure out where the enemy is and i open the door and they are mad at us because its the middle of the night. The next thing you know i fall into some sewage and some of you are still eating so we will go to pg healthy. It was one of those things that they are just going to dump it in their and thats when i fell and all the way up to my chest. I remember not realizing smelling it and seeing my guys. Oh no you are on your own. You are walking back. It was a tough fight. I had to get back in the truck to fight the taliban. Sometimes they had good ideas and that was not one. You have an unusual story of the Army Officers and the veterans i know. Your story is unique. How did you come to be an army officer . When i came i was 12 years old and i didnt speak english but i was adopted by a great man named Larry Groberg my father the came here to the maryland area but i was in high school. Right before going to high school with is 13 years old my uncle who was an imam and lived in north africa and Everybody Knows where that is, there we go. There we go. The terrorist organization came in the late 80s early 90s. It was a really westernized Muslim Country and my uncle thought that this was obviously wrong and it did not represent anything that he was preaching. Like many other algerians he put on a uniform and fought these individuals. In february of 1996 he was shot and beheaded and dismembered in front of my grandfather times grandfather. That was a testament the testament of the evil that was happening in the world. I kind of compared what happened to what is happening around the world right now. We see boko haram kill. The people and we just turn on the news like this is horrible and then we move on to the kardashians. Its just culture in the sense but if it happens at home and its on cnn or fox news thats thing that really bothers me as a young child. This evil could be happening over there and nobody talks about it but i remembered it. When i became u. S. Citizen my catalyst was 9 11. Here i was they attacked my uncle may attack my family and here i am a naturalized citizen of this country and as soon as i became naturalized my only solution was to join the military. We are lucky you did. You dont just choose the army, you choose the hardest part of the army going to Ranger School. What are some of the experiences for you in the army . You write a lot about training and combat. What drew you as a person than 2008 . It was a combination of all the sequences of event that happened in my life. You have to look at my father and my mother have to look my family my peers. Yet to look at my High School Coaches and my training in the military and the training i received well as a book with platoon leader. These experiences and actions allowed me to make a specific decision on august 8, 2012 which i believe a majority of my peers would have made as well. Talk about training. I wrote my first chapter about one of the most significant experiences my life was Ranger School. I kept hearing about Ranger School months and months prior. I never realized what it was until i got there. Its no joke. For those whom ive been through the crucible whats the ranger story . You are out there in three different phases and two meals a day maybe on average to sleep a couple of hours a night. You weigh approximately 100 pounds and you are going to enter 50 miles in a few days between georgia and florida. While i have a responsibility to lead men on a mission and follow i had moments where we were in a death march for 23 hours. We would just keep going up and down and i had a heck of a story in the book. I really never lost it. It changed my life because what Ranger School does its not because they want to see the toughest person in the world. Thats not the point of it. They want to be sure you have the stamina but its about what will you do when you are hungry and starving literally and you are dead tired. You havent slept for more than five hours in three days and you are supposed to lead men into action. What do you do . Also when you are not in a leadership position would you do . You are far away from everyone else. Well have integrity when no one is watching . These are the Little Things he learned. I learned a lot about myself and first of all between eating and sleeping i would eat. I would get sleep all day come everyday, everyday. Nope, when they given that choice 25 minutes before the next day starts, i was a hungry ranger. [laughter] i also learned a lot about myself and some things that i needed to fix to be an effective leader in combat and i also learned the reality behind realizing every single aspect and every single individual and understand their strengths and what their week mrs. R. And combined those drinks as best as you can to be an effective leader. Lets go to afghanistan, 2012. When did you deploy in what was your job during the second appointment . The second appointment i was running security detail and the eastern provinces of afghanistan afghanistan. He was the man. It was an unbelievable tour. For six months i got to ride in helicopters. I got to see some of the most beautiful parts of afghanistan and i got to read incredible folks. Once more got to see afghanistan from a completely different perspective than my first tour. Whatever the boss told me to do i did and this tour i was providing security and i did the mission as best they could. You are in the eastern part of afghanistan in an incredibly part rugged part of the country near mission was to meet and islamabad. What happens . Unfortunately the unit that was supposed to receive us received call and clear it out by the will have the which makes that rout unclear again. And so i had two command rs and afghan general to the f17 state department individual two majors which major and kennedy, and then my team of six include myself. And the enemy that summer had one model which was spectacular had attack so kind of pushing away from the small attack and they wanted to do Something Big so for that you have to have a lot of patience to really pick your target accordingly and when they saw this coming with that much grass they probably thought man this is christmas in july, you know this august, and they committed. So they had two suicide bomb rs ready to take us out. And so that day as were 700 meters into a 1100 meter movement they came at us with motorcycles in front of our patrol and i had actually put afghan army up front. To be honest with you i did not trust are them at the time to be behind us because we have too many green on blue and i didnt know this group of folks i thought with incredible afghan a soldier bus i didnt know these guys so i put them up front and a i wanted them to make our pier bigger to deter our potential threat and they did a heck of a job because when motorcycles came to u our patrol point guy, afghan soldier rifle are screaming and the motorcycle folks to dismount and start run aring away. But that was the whole point thats exactly what they wanted. At that point a man came out of the structure, young maybe had 20 years old and you know clean shaven, black man, and walking backwards. But thought, obviously, this guy is a threat i didnt know what the heck was wrong with him and where he came from and he did a 180degree turn and another 90 to my patrol which at that point prompted me to leave my position and scream at him while springting at him reached him hit him, grabbed him realized you know that he had a suicide vest on. Do whatever you can do at that point and throw him as far as away as quickly as possible because you have to save the bomb. So you dont think about death you think about doing your job so i threw him. I was changing same topic changing. My goal coming back from the deployment was to do the rest range of competition which you have to be pretty darn good you know well fit to do so some of the best of the best athletes do it and i was trying to compete it to do it there and lifting and working out a lot. I was i looked good right [laughter] i looked good. Well guess what, when i threw him he landed right on my street made me think maybe i wasnt lifting enough because he went no nowhere. He was a little big he was not big. Im note a big guy. He went straight down my street which, you know, i look back like man, could have done a little bit better. But he landed chest first and then he detonated so he committed and he had no matter what, that man was going to die that day. And so when he hit the ground he let go they came out and came out of his hand and everything went punish you lost four of your comrades and you were wounded as well i think number of your comrades were too. You wake up intermittently and you finally wake up and when is there not a soldier . I wases texting him but most important before i get that had i lost four incredible americans four individuals that i would do everything in the world to bring back. And griffin, major grey kennedy and state department [inaudible conversations] these men were nowhere near the bomb and for some odd reason in the rule of law, in a way of life they were picked, and left which im a Firm Believer that, you know, theyre out there looking over us and looking over me making sure theyre protecting me and protecting our families. But thats the craziest part about this whole story is the guy blew up at my photoand killed four others that were almost 30 feet away. And doesnt make sense but it is the way it is. But i my injurieses were there. But i woke up in launch, right, and im all sorts of drugged up i was pretty sure i had a pca which was allotted pressing every 15 minutes, and i see this this figure in front of me im like laying down. I look up and its got hair. Everywhere and it and hes talking to me hes like hey, man. So proud to meet you. Youre a hero looking at this guy im thinking are you the guy from korn the rock band from 90s early 2,000 freak on a leash are you Jonathon Davis like yeah, man. Why are you here . [laughter] where am i . You know and that was one of the coolest experiences Jonathon Davis was going through a pus tour at the time so he was out there you know, visiting the the troops. At a hospital where, you know, if you got hit, in afghanistan that is your first stop outside the country before you go home. And so he was out there supporting us and i thought i was hallucinating so i was figuring like i have heavy drugs here because if im dreaming about korn my goodness, i mean, i havent listened to korn in a while at that point. Its a small world and we were just texting literally just texting because he wants to do another uso tour and goim going back to afghanistan and al qaeda and back to po land and other areas it has been awesome. So you know, you go from being track star, army ranger compete in best ranger and youre pretty banged up and youve got a journey ahead. What what is that like and what are hardest parts of that . I mean, im impressed when i meet wounded veterans and you know the grit theyve got the perseverance to keep going. Tell us about that journey. Ill be honest with you it wasnt easy at first. I had a severe survivor skill i have severe and they call them mild concussion i call it a pretty damn good mild concussion because i couldnt remember they used to bring this picture of giraffe like a lion, and theyll give you math equation tough math equation with so like how many quarterses are in a dollar . Right and that look ill be like i was never really good at math i have no idea what to do now. [laughter] hey, you got me. Is this an s. A. T. Question theyre like no, whats one plus one . Tough one right there. But no, my brain wasnt working. I could look at the grandfather and i knew, i knew what it was like internally like i know what this is, but i just dont ask, dont dont know what it is and for six weeks it is pretty severe so they that was tough, and then you add the allot you add morphine you add benadryl to go to sleep at night, an then you close the door an you turn lights off and my demon inside my head were playing a lot of games. You know, they have a hell of a cocktail support their mission, and so no for months, months i was really struggling to the point where you con testimony plait suicide because youre so intrnlly defeated you have no reason to go on and it is incredible how you can feel that low. Its beyond depression and so i hear about the 20 veteranses that take their lives every day to me that is something that is powerful why i wear this ring as a reare minder that people have to question why . How . Guess what no taliban, no al qaeda, no no enemy has ever been as strong as my own deemen in my head. Think about that. I actually had the best of the best on my side always every time i went outside a wire to fight the enemy i had no support system at the time or so i thought when i was fighting those demons at night ands its incredible what they can do. I completely underestimated it. I had friends that took their lives while in service and i could not understand. Could not point like they have everything going for them, with right about and here i am in the same boat and thinking about the same outcome. And so that was tough. And honestly i dont think i would have made it unless it was for the support system i received which, you know, many of you if you dont know, if you remember anything about this remember the name travis mills. I always like to say im going to make him a superstar but hes been doing that for a long time a quadruple amputee and i got hit in april of 2012, and in november 2012 he walked into my room and changed the course of my, my life in 15 minutes. He was able to rewire me in a way that i didnt think was possible and listening to me an giving me advice also giving me a reality check i think thats what i needed for me. Everybody is different everybody has a trigger for me it was the reality check that i wasnt a failure because i had four People Killed under my watch and i had a purpose and a mission. And i couldnt get that through my own head until he came in, and told me like open up your eye stop being weak, and you know, youve got to be humble and see whats around you. Or there are guys that have a lot worse injuries than you. But it is i know it is so personal. But you have a responsible to rest of your life to earn the fact that youre on this earth and honor your family and brothers. One last one before you do which now youre with the boeing company and helping serve veterans honoring those the way you describe. Tell us a bit about what youre doing now and why thats so important to you. I made three decision iseses in any life three great decisions so i say. First one is you know joining the United States army. Thats the best decision i have ever made, you know, as a young man. I wanted to serve my country i wanted to go out there and avenge my uncle and i kale out with a completely different respect that i came out with love. Thats what i came out with with the service i went many with hate and anger i took that away early on because i realized i would be killed most importantly get other People Killed and i fought with love. Love a brother and sisterhood to me thats the greatest most important thing you can do in combat when all hell breaks loose trust me you know, its even if youre a nonbeliever believe me you believe in god its fact. I trust i have met some atheist and man when things go wrong theyre praying. They dont know but theyre praying theyre like whoever you are male, female i dont care. Please help. And really its each other looking each other in the eyes and so to me that experience i wish i could have been in the military longer. I wish i could have done a career but it is what it is im grateful for the opportunity to serve a day in our military. The second one is joining the borne company thats what a blessing. I never realize what had they did. Honestly i thought they just made airplanes i wases infantry guy i didnt like jumping out of air airplane everybody though they made me do so here i am not working for the number one air Space Company in the world and when i came here seeing culture, leadership, and the people, it just reminded me of the military and brotherhood and unbelievable a company of 140,000 employees can be so close and have such a great impact and then when they told me that they wanted, you know, amplify my mission which is to go out there to give become and serve our veteran community that they give me the funding the people, the resources to go out there and make a difference every single day with our team to change Service Member, veteran and their families lives who went in there about unbelievable. You know, then announced this s last week or two weeks ago on that money we just, we gave were giving this year. 50 Million Dollars in grants. To support our Community Support our veteran community been our stem activities, our environment, our arts, our civic duties. Over course of next three years were doing 25 Million Dollars for just our veterans. Buts whats important, though, is the fact that its not just about giving money everybody can do that right bill gates can give a billion and still be a billion mare. Its about actually having the putting employing your employees to make a difference were commit hadding 1. 7 million hours for just our veteran Service Organizations over the course of the next five years. Thats our employees going out there in the community and serving our community with different organizations. Thats to us you add the funding which absolutely necessary for these organizations to succeed but you bring in our expertise, and you bring in our employees to be o hands on that is how you make a difference thats how everyone is involved. And you know just get to the great conversation with our brg i said you are my succeed. We cannot publish what we want to do within the boeing company in our community with our own employees being you know spearheading this initiative so thats what were doing. We just did one great one with u. S. Founder program over course of the next three years for 5 million where were going to impact 200,000 out of 25,000 Transition Service members every year to give them right opportunity and tool to serve for prepare of transition so the day they got that they are ready. They know where theyre going live and you understand all of their medical services and they have a e career in front of the them that theyre ready to start off and their families that take care of and spouse hired as well withs thats how you save lives. That is how you take that number and bring it down to zero hopefully by that had ultimate goal to bring this to zero because you give p people an opportunity to succeed outside and take care of them with Mental Health orb or physical issue and do not give them a handout you give them a handout so i pretty sure we can take care of ourselves once we give them opportunity to do so but we with cant do it alone. Third decision im guessing carson. I knew you were going to say that. He knows me. Absolutely one year from today im going to be married to my best friend. And so to me [applause] that is the great thing i can ever ask for. [applause] so we have time for questions not sure the protocol to use the mic here or raise the hand. As a africanamerican i want to thank you if for your service and inspiring our veterans. I want to thank you for your service ive lost family to the terrorist as well. I also want to ask you about the pharmaceutical addiction do you have any comments, concerns because i hear often that it is after theyve been prescribed that the addiction starts. Im not a physician or doctor or i dont know anything about that kind of stuff but i can tell you this is real. Had this is scary. I didnt understand addiction until i became addiction to ib benadryl i couldnt go to bed without it. I mean, it was unbelievable it got to the point where at night i would go on my computer and i would try i would google how to buy the benadryling bag which is not legal. Right, so i found that out that was not legal my nurse kept telling me you cant do this. It is illegal and i was so addicted to it that i told doctors and doctors helped me you know get through it, and so with the multiple surgeries and, obviously, put no iv benadryl on my heart so you go to withdrawal about it but they have other u stuff. But youre absolutely right. I think that the most importante United States Army Leadership talking about this. And thats an epidemic that we need to stop. I had probably 600 pills of morphine in my drur at home and its on us our responsibility once were done when we get a certain amount of pills, and if we dont use them to bring them back to the pharmacy. You cant you think a Wounded Warrior will do that . No because i dont know when the pain will kick in . I figured you gave me pills ill pop a pill whenever had pain comes in. I was lucky im one of the lucky im allergic to morphine and made me go crazy so i was off those powerful medications you know after a month or two. And first month or two i had no choice. It was there were reconstructing my leg, and that was it. But i saw a lot of my friends struggle with it and so thats something that i know that v. A. I know the military is looking at. Theyre doing everything that they can in their power to come up with a great solution. Unfortunately, we still going to have to provide some tough medications some strong medications to Wounded Warriors but we have to be more responsible about it. On both sides. Well go out to other mic, yes, sir are. Im brian from kentucky and Southern Indiana out of rural, kentucky fellow Wounded Warrior infantryman, i wanted to see if you could comment on the wife and schedule a medal of honor recipient with travel international everything like that. As well as ask you if youve been to the Kentucky Derby and maybe consider that. [laughter] so i would 100 consider beginning to the Kentucky Derby absolutely. I want to wear my cool suit and outfit too. [laughter] absolutely ive been to preakness thats probably something else. Some interesting time at preakness but medal of honor life it is what you make it. Thats honestly, i know that i have folks that im in a society with fellow recipient do nothing. And because that is their right. They off reservation they went through whatever they through and dont want to be associated with anything and i know other folks who are very political. My daytoday schedule really depends on what im doing with the boeing company im lucky enough that i work for a company that supports me and supports the foundation o. You know number one, medal of hon or nor foundation so makes sense for them to allow me at times to support some of the program aring. But as a platform to do some good. Ting that the medal represents y trends and Service Member and represents all of us here. This is not mine im just a carrier and i have responsibility and role to make sure that i earn it every day that i do some good behind it because it has given me a platform to support our military and nation to the best of my ability. But i would say between a Character Development program that we have with a foundation to the different events probably travel a week or two combine so maybe 15, 20 days year just for the medal of honor believe me or not im on the travel it supports the melds, and boeing company i have the greatest job in the world. I literally have the greatest job in the world which is to give back and to be part of a greater solution to make some positive change in the peoples lives. Yes, sir. Colorado springs, and i hesitate to say thank you for your service because thats become such a thing that 9 says to the other 1 . But i want to especially thank you for the service that youve done since afghanistan because youre really a wonderful role model for a lot of people. Quick question, spring has a growing homeless problem, a lot of veterans who are a lot of army an military presence there but this is not just a local prom but this is a national problem. Through your foundation and a the work that you all do, any insight on how we deal with homelessness especially with veterans . Which seems to be the big, biggest injustice. Well you know first of all pleasure, sir. I still in house catch in the spring because i was stationed out there at fort carson, colorado, and, i mean, loamlessness has been incredible incredible problem for our country i think it was at one point 11 of all homeless folks were veterans and you have a less than 1 serve. So, obviously, theres an issue regards to Mental Health and opportunities there and what were trying to do is support the right organization within our communities, and different communities to make sure that, you know, we between the housing meal supporting, you know, opportunities for these folks to get housing meals, housing and an opportunity for a job. Its its hard to just focus on veterans because were committed to our community. We do emphasize to every group that we support that we want to make sure that, you know, we also target veterans and they tell us, obviously [laughter] literally we know this. You know a large portion of our folks who are going through our program are veterans. You know, were really trying to figure out a way to support the v. A. Too. I think that the v. A. Has got this National Initiative of going out there in our community and partnering up with with local government to make sure that we make a difference. I dont know how to do it but you know, they claimed it. So that, you know, theres a homeless free, in virginia. And so i dont really know what that truly means because to me it i see one person that is homeless i consider that one too many. But reality is, that we have to go out there and put our front, time, put our Employee Engagement in terms of supporting the community through Great Organization who is know it best. The data you think you have all of the answers is the day that youre going to fail and day that people organizations in our community dont want to Work Together is a day theyre going to fail. And thats what im seeing specifically in a Nonprofit Sector too Many Organizations committing for the same dollar. And what had i want to create in my company is called boeing umbrella right. It is i will not give your dollar, i dont care how good your organization is. I will not give your dollar or recommend to give your dollar unless youre ready to corroborate with other organizations within our community. Unless youre are the to share information, unless youre ready to share successes or share failures it is only way we do it. My goodness we have a lot of money to pass out. Right not just us but im talking about different corporations and programs but if you start competing against each other, and you forget the support of the specific group or o specific person or o initiative then our dollars go nowhere and no impact is being meads. Homelessness has been arranged since forever, its going to be very difficult for us to tengd completely. Why ill be honest with you and so people dont want to hear this and this is my own personal opinion there are folks that want to be homeless. Ive had conversations with them theyve had life and they want, they love their life now. Its simple. They know where to go. They know where to get a meal merriam does a good job of feeding our homeless and theyre comfortable with it its hard to help a person that thats a lifestyle that they want. But we know theres a many many, and thousands and thousands of Homeless Veterans the there who just want an opportunity to get become on their photoand be a functioning member of society as they put it. You know, so were on it. Were working on it and it is going to be a fight. Yes, sir. Im ken first from the world of first counsel western mass, and im just wondering if you can quantify for us the extent of the veterans and people who arent veterans as well who need Services Like youre providing you mentioned some big dollar numbers and you just mentioned theres thousands of people who are homeless but do you have a sense from your work that your company what had is the scope of this problem in america . It depends what you describe, you see. And so we work on two different pillar first is work force possession from providing School Development and the programming for our folks who are transitioning out of the military already transition to really put in experiences on paper being able to speak their experiences and really sell themselves out while building a network and start a new career. We dont want them to just get jobs. Right because Unemployment Rate for transitioning Service Members is lower than National Average 3. 9 of the last shows a figure out. But problem is our retention rates are really, really bad. On average about 9 months right in were all going after our first job once we have transitioned thats because we dont know what to get ourselves into. Thats because were were potentially ill prepared as we transition with understanding reality behind life as a civilian and Corporate America or the educational field. And so were trying to help that program right here and support those initiatives. And thats 250,000 Service Members that transition every year. Thats every year. So you add that number right every single one of those folks is going to need some type o of support i dont care if youre fourstar general or if youre e1 private. Actually kind of funny to talk to general because the generals theyre doing this for so long theyre like i dont know what im going to do after this. They all going to come after you i really dont know. What ill do and when i get myself into, even i dont to put him on my favorite person, so this guy changed the of the way of army looking at transition when i was talking to him about transition like where are you going like i dont know. Come on man. Youve been talking and having these conversations nonstop. But you know he ends up doing something great but even him he needs that support and need to make a phone call and to connect with Service Organizations extrnlly to provide hill with a better clearer path on where he can be well he can continue on making a difference that actually is going to be a passion of his so there are millions. There are millions. And you can attest it a number that will grow and never be never going to end because thats just life. And thats not just veterans if you really think about it thats everyone that transare decision from a career field but were, obviously, focused on veteran side right now. Well i want to thank you for your service for your leadership of our generation and also for sharing your insight here today. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] heres a look at some books being publishedded this week. 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