[Cheater5]

For the most part, the Shawn Ryan Show has compelling guests even if he isn't the most skilled interviewer; he's wise enough to let the subject tell the story.

I watched these whistleblower interviews and found them to be...underwhelming to the point of being entirely unbelievable. Starting with Michael Herrera who's story is riddled with so many red flags (being dropped off as a six man element in an austere environment with no radio communications? No mother-f**king way. Not ever in the history of ever. No. Way.) to his recall of excruciating details from something that traumatic nearly 20 years later, e.g. the hair color and beard stubble of the element of supposed 'special operators' that surrounded and disarmed them, and on an on. To me, he brimmed with bullsh*t, and he seems to have memorized a script. I think civilians or folks who haven't served may eat his story up- but I thought he came off as completely unbelievable.

DC Long just seems to be a sad character to me; a guy who struggled after separating from service, found himself homeless for awhile, and by concocting this fantastical story he fills some sort of void by being validated. I served at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) during the same time he tells this tale, and I was at XVIII Airborne Corps Headquarters-- I rolled my eyes listening to him. His story about being on an airborne operation / jump, and 'mystery man' (presumably a CAG/SFOD-D operator) cuts in front of him on the way out the door, thereby causing him to have a parachute malfunction that nearly kills him is utter garbage. Every single time there's an accident regarding an airborne operation inside the aircraft, on a drop zone, the activation of a reserve parachute, or even an injury-- the Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate conducts a thorough investigation and interviews every single person involved and reviews the manifests, pilots, and all equipment. This guy is talking out of his butt... His claim that his father didn't die of natural causes, thereby implying that 'they' made him terminally ill somehow ELEVEN YEARS LATER is ridiculous. I guess the folks who wanted him dead for not signing the NDA took their sweet time killing him off. Again, this guy just comes off as a sad person who I ultimately feel more sorry for than anything.

The last interviewee -- Eric Hecker -- is clearly not an idiot and is possibly quite bright, but he presents as a person who relishes being in the spotlight. At least he has a few photographs to show he was actually in Antarctica; but again- he seems as credible as Steven Greer. If he was just a jack-of-all trades maintenance guy / firefighter, why in the world would they allow him access to these programs and pieces of equipment (if they truly existed)? Answer: they wouldn't.

I enjoy this kind of stuff, but I didn't find these guys as having any credibility whatsoever.