The Team House

Jeff Depatie is a retired Canadian JTF-2 operator and is the founder of the Special Forces Experience. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse NEW! Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Podcast version of this show can be found here:https://soundcloud.com/user-796052562/interrogator-and-counterintelligence-agent-elana-duffy-ep...

Greg Coker was a AH-6 Little Bird pilot with the Nightstalkers and saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was one wild episode as Greg tells us about how he joined the Infantry and then become a helicopter pilot flying Cobras and Apaches before assessing for the 160th SOAR. After 9/11 he deployed to Afghanistan as a fire support officer and had some hair raising experiences. Then came the invasi...

After graduating from Cornell University with undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, Elana Duffy worked in civil and logic engineering briefly before deciding to enlist for active duty Army service in 2003. As both an interrogator and counterintelligence agent, she conducted multiple hostage rescue and strategic level intelligence operations, and eventually assessed into an elite cland...

MG Hutmacher became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in September 2018. He was a career United States Army Officer and retired in 2018 having served over 40 years in uniform. As an Army Special Operations Aviator, he commanded at every level during his three tours with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, where he served as the MH-60...

Eeben Barlow served in the South African military and in his government's covert action branch called Civil Cooperation Bureau. After his service he founded Executive Outcomes, a private security company hired by the governments of Angola and Sierra Leone to fight terrorists. After coming under immense political pressure, Eeben attempted retirement but as heard here this turned out to be something...

Jo was born and raised in Idaho and enlisted in the Army in 2005. She was a 37F, or a Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Specialist, where she met Diann. In 2007, Jo deployed to Iraq with a Military Information Support Team (MIST). After her initial enlistment she did about 1.5 years in a Reserve PSYOP unit. After her time in the Reserves, she went back to Active Duty at Ft. Bragg, NC. Jo medically...

Justin is a veteran of 10th Special Forces Group where he served as a medic and deployed to combat in Afghanistan where he was caught in an IED blast that nearly ended his life. Please support Justin by checking out his website: https://justinlascek.com Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse NEW! Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-...

After a stint in the U.S. Army Erwin embarked on the ultimate adventure, traveling to the Middle East and volunteering to serve with the Peshmerga in Iraq and the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria during the war against ISIS. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse NEW! Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: http...

Marc Polymeropoulos served in the CIA for nearly three decades prosecuting the war on terror across the middle east until his career was cut short by a mysterious attack in Moscow. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support .

Brian Kimber served as a Air Force Pararescue (PJ) and hosts World News with BK. We discuss Brian's military career, PJ selection and training, election 2020, the state of the media, and much more. Check out his podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-news-with-bk/id1125685301 and his Patreon page right here: https://www.patreon.com/BKactual Get access to bonus segments with our gue...

Jason Beighley is a retired Army Special Mission Unit operator. We discuss Jason's time in 2nd Ranger Battalion, going to selection, training for the unit, and deploying to Somalia for Operation Gothic Serpent. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse NEW! Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: https://discor...

Navy veterans Jeffrey Wilson and Brian Andrews are the writing team behind the #1 Bestselling Tier One Series, the universe from which the Sons of Valor series was born, coming June 2021 in a 3 book deal with Blackstone. Under their brand of Andrews and Wilson, they have now created The Shepherds series coming late summer 2021 in a 3 book deal from Tyndale House and in a soon to be announced deal...

Caleb served in the 82nd Airborne Division, deploying in support of the Global War on Terror and as well as to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He then attended Special Forces Selection and Assessment and the Q-Course with Jack and they were both assigned to 5th Special Forces group. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse SubReddit: h...

Mike Donovan tells us about his time with the Marine Corps Combined Action Program in Vietnam. It was little known Marine Corps program that specialized in counter insurgency operations and has been touted as one of the most effective programs of the Vietnam War. John Meyer's books about SOG can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/John-Stryker-Meyer/e/B002A510S4 Get access to bonus segments with...

John Meyer tells us about his time with RT Idaho doing cross border missions into Laos and Cambodia that were as secret as they were dangerous as a part of Studies and Observations Group (SOG). Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amaz...

John Cronin has lived a life of adventure from serving in Vietnam with Marine Recon and Force Recon to traveling to Rhodesia where he served in the RLI and Selous Scouts. Afterwards her pursued academics going to school in the Middle East, and even got kidnapped in Beirut. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTe...

Ray Flood served in NYPD's Emergency Services Unit which deals with high risk entry and rescue missions. Ray talks to us about how he joined ESU, the training, the equipment, and the mission. We discuss talking to, and if need be grabbing, jumpers on bridges and buildings in the New York City. One notable operation was when passengers got stuck in the tram that runs from Manhattan to Roosevelt Isl...

Chuck Woodson served with Special Forces in Vietnam, having joined the military reluctantly because his Dad was a career Navy man who ran a tight ship at home. However, he caught the Special Forces bug in Vietnam and after a break of service came back for more rising to the rank of WO4. In our interview we discuss his career, adventures, and his research of Special Forces history including many in...

Ed Kugler served as a Marine Scout-Sniper in Vietnam. After seeing action during the uprising in the Dominican Republic, Ed volunteered for Vietnam and was trained in the second scout-sniper class run in country. From there, he began a two year odyssey hunting and killing NVA along the DMZ with North Vietnam. His book, Dead Center, is a brutal but real account that tells it like it is. In our inte...

Kenn Miller served in all three incarnations of the LRRPs/Rangers in Vietnam working his way up from private to recon team leader and graduated from the MACV Recondo School. After the war, Kenn pursued his education, lived in Taiwan, earned a PhD, and speaks fluent Mandarin. He is the author of Six Silent Men Book Two, a non-fiction account about his unit in Vietnam and the novel Tiger the Lurp Do...

Francis Villanueva had amazing access to the Light Reaction Regiment (LRR) of the Philippines in writing his book about them called "Tiradores" which means shooters. The LRR is the Philippines version of Delta Force, trained by US Special Forces, they conduct some of the most dangerous and awe inspiring operations that few have ever heard about. The government deliberately attributes their operati...

Joe Goldberg is a former CIA officer who specialized in disinformation and propaganda operations. In this episode we talk about his recruitment into the CIA, a massive deception operation he ran against Libya by producing a fake video, CIA anti-communist campaigns, then going to work in corporate intelligence with Motorola and looking for several billion dollars that got "lost" in Turkey. Joe was...

Ruben Garcia is a Cuban immigrant who joined the Army in the 1950's and Special Forces in 1961. He did multiple tours in Vietnam, helped stand up the Mobile Guerrilla Force, was stationed in remote SFOB's on the Cambodian border, involved in search missions for Nick Rowe, and later served at Mott Lake running Special Operations Training for Special Forces. This is Ruben's story, from private to ma...

Dan Hampton flew F-16 fighter jets in combat over 151 missions in both Iraq Wars before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. In this episode we discuss his journey into the Air Force, the incredibly demanding weapons school for fighter pilots, combat operations he flew over Iraq, and some incredible stories about aerial dog fights during training. We also discuss Dan's new book Operation Vengeance ab...

In the 1960's Neil Hansen flew for the CIA's secret airline, Air America in South East Asia. Neil was shot down, escaped several countries by the skin of his teeth, and had a the adventure of his life. His book is available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Neil-Graham-Hansen/dp/1940773814 Support the stream on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Become a supporter of this...