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Kurt Troter served as a Marine and later went on to volunteer fighting with the Peshmerga in Kurdistan. He’s a favorite of the show, and today I get him on to discuss two of his most recent articles. The Crumbling Skeleton of the Islamic State rattles on for now gets into the dwindling cash flow of […]
Three-hundred and eighty episodes deep? It’s hard to believe! As always, I greatly appreciate you guys, the listeners, loyally checking out what we’re up to week after week. Well, this is a good one. As promised, both Jim West and Ernie Emerson join me for an epic discussion. Both of these gentlemen, Ernest Emerson (the […]
Every job in the military has its negatives, but even with the high risk involved, many civilians look back on their lives wishing they’d served their country in some capacity. They often glamorize titles like sniper or medic, but I don’t think anyone would envy the title of Mortuary Affairs Marine. However, that is the […]
It would be a fair statement that there is no name more synonymous with mixed martial arts than Royce Gracie, and no family with the impact on the sport than the Gracie family. The Gracie family created Brazilian jiu-jitsu, were integral in starting the competition among different forms of self-defense now known as mixed martial […]
CEO of Hurricane Group Brandon Webb has been long overdue for an appearance on the show. Now that’s he’s wrapped up The Power of Thought podcast, and is out promoting “Mastering Fear: A Navy SEAL’s Guide,” his latest book which came out this week — he was able to take some time out to join […]
CJ Woodruff is best known as a fitness content creator, and he has some impressive credentials at that. Between creating The Fitness Trainer Academy, being a personal trainer himself, competing as a bodybuilder, and most recently becoming a spokesman for supplement company Primeval Labs, he knows the industry well. Before that, however, he served as […]
The last time Pat McNamara was on the show, he gave the most passionate review of his experience seeing Judas Priest play NYCB Live/Nassau Coliseum. Ever since than, I knew we had to get the former Army operator and current shooting instructor back on to talk metal a little more in-depth. Well, who better to […]
If you heard the last episode with Sam Faddis then you know we’ve started rolling out the Intelligence field edition of “Inside the Team Room” on The Spec Ops Channel. Sam is featured on that along with several other of our other authors who have worked in intel. Well, just because I’m such a nice guy, […]
Charles “Sam” Faddis is a former CIA operations officer and national security commentator with extensive experience on the ground in the Near East and South Asia. He’s also one of the guys you’ll see on the intelligence edition of Inside the Team Room which we’re currently rolling out in segments on The Spec Ops Channel. […]
Back in March of 2014, Sean Spoonts wrote an excellent article for SOFREP that gained a great deal of traction titled, “Alright, Goodnight – Does Malaysia Want to Know What Happened to Flight MH-370?” As some of you may remember, a great deal of conspiracy theories immediately surrounded what happened to that infamous flight, and […]
In this current age of political correctness, there are not a lot of novels out there for young adults with pro-American and pro-military values. As a patriot, Scott McEwen decided to fill this niche in releasing his latest book “Camp Valor” with Hof Williams. McEwen, best known for co-writing the best-selling memoir turned Hollywood blockbuster […]
We always keep a versatile list of spec ops guests, but we actually haven’t had a Navy SEAL on the program in quite a few months — it was a treat to have Jack Carr join us in studio. We actually shot this full episode for YouTube as well, in the new studio, and we […]