US Marine Joins The IRA | John Crawley
US Marine Joins The IRA, features John Crawley, an Irishman who joined the US Marines, then came back home to join the resistance.
US Marine Joins The lRA | John Crawley
John Crawley left Ireland to join the US Marine Corps. Four years later, he was hand-picked by Martin McGuinness to help ship armaments to Northern Ireland. With the IRA riddled with assests working for British Intelligence, he was caught and served two seperate terms in prison.
Transcript from ‘US Marine Joins The lRA’ podcast
John – I didn’t join the US Marines with a view that the IRA needed my help. I wasn’t that presumptuous. It wasn’t like I was going to join the Marines, come back and be this person who was going to improve things. That that never crossed my mind. I joined the Marines for two reasons. One was to enhance my professional development. So when I did come back and join the IRA, I would be well trained. The other was to test my commitment because I probably would have joined the IRA at 18, but I didn’t know anybody in the area. It was a secret army.
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