This man is an example of someone truly taking advantage of what America has to offer, and giving back in return in distinctly unique ways very few other people ever could, and doing so in great measure but also with modesty, anonymity and honor. Glad to be able to call Adam a fellow American. Awesome story, and I'm glad he decided to chronicle his experience in the form of a memoir... And I respect the lengths he went to in order to protect the anonymity of the unit in question, his fellow operators, historic operations, TTPs, etc. All in all, great episode, thanks for this one.
@@AdamGamal-od1lf You don't need to explain yourself and the choices you made. You quite literally shed blood for America, and the book is more of a memoir, a story about the amazing path your life took to arrive at where you are today. The book is explicitly *not* about the unit and its history and the TTPs employed by its operators... People who are disappointed that it isn't some sort of tell-all are simply delusional and have a weak grip on reality. Those who are interested to read about the truly amazing path one's life can take as a young immigrant to America who then embarks upon a career in serving our nation's military (during the longest period of active conflict in the nation's history) will be pleased to find that you painted that picture of what your life looked like, how you navigated building a family at the same time, and how you eventually began planning your transition into the next phase of your career/life, etc etc... Again, thanks for writing the book, and thank you for your years of fine service. (If you're ever in the Paterson area, let me know if you'd like some recommendations for brilliant Palestinian or Turkish food 😉)
I like the fact that he's not only a ballsy and lethal operator, but also an extremely humble guy who just happens to do some extreme shit a man could only dream of
@@AdamGamal-od1lfoh this is actually the guy? Thank you for your service! And sacrifice. I just want to say out of all the different groups, teams, commands, etc in the military and agencies Task Force Orange is by far my favorite. I love tactical operations. I love signals intelligence. It's the best of both worlds. If there is anyway I, a civilian, could possibly speak with you about signals intelligence and OSINT that would be greatly appreciated.
I just ordered Adam's book from Amazon and I can't wait till it arrives. I am fascinating about this 'Unit' and finally someone comes out the shadow for bit to speak about his experiences working within the shadows. Truly amazing people whoever they are. Much Respect from the UK.
Thank you sir. Hope you would also appreciate the non-military parts of the book as they were very important to me to share as it’s all connected and help in the making of a man.
@@AdamGamal-od1lf I received the book yesterday and I'm at page 194 'The Mouth of the River. Reading your book has given me an insight into the middle east, full of facts that I I never knew before. When is the next book coming out.?..
Thank you very much. Next one will be coming up after DoD starts realizes that keeping a book for over a year for review is unreasonable lol. Seriously, we are comforting a fiction one so we don’t have to deal with DoD for pre publication approvals.
@@AdamGamal-od1lf Then I shall be patiently waiting for the next one. Oh yeah I just finished reading your book about 20 minutes ago, a truly remarkable experience to read from beginning to end. I saw you on the Team house podcast recently and straight away I wanted to read about your life knowing the proceeds will go to those in need.
i heard him for the first time on a podcast called combat story, also great podcast shoutout to ryan who runs that one. this guy is a true hero, from zero to hero. really powerful story ❤️💪🏽 thank you guys for having him on
98G (now 35P) easily the coolest MOS in the Army the amount of stuff you can get into is pretty wild. Not to mention spending 2+ years in Monterey, CA is worth it alone. Also 98G are assigned to tactical units (LLVI) and during GWOT 98Gs were enabling all the time sensitive targeting raids doing close target reconnaisance missions hitting objectives with the scout units and/or assigned to SOF units like vanilla SF units that didnt have organic MI assets.
The Team House episode featuring interview with SOT-A Clayton Jensen was one of the most interesting GWoT veteran interviews I've ever come across.. Strongly recommended!
LLVI are FORSCOM units, typically working alongside Scout Platoons. They are the conventional counterparts to SF Group SOT-As. SF Group has always had organic MI units since their inceptions, they're called the MID-SOT or MI Detachment/Special Operations Teams, so I'm not sure where you heard that some didn't have organic MI. In the MID you have the TCAE which is where the SIGINT analyst and targeting cell is located. In Ranger Regiment, the RMIB has OSTs which are probably the most capable SIGINT teams in all of SOF, with the JSOC SMUs being next up the ladder. Source: am a SOT, have worked with SOTs from all the other Groups, the Rangers, and 82nd LLVI/SEW Teams from 1-73
@@DJ-fd4qknot enough SOT-A teams to go around I worked w/ 3rd Group guys that had zero intel support so they knocked on the SCIF door one day and asked if we had any targets they could chase down. Worked with them a number of times on close target recon missions/stg missions at FOB McHenry. Our guys up in Kirkuk lived out of an ODA safe house as 101st SIGINT guys supporting ODA. Had guys working with an ODA out in Bayji. SOT-B dude worked out of a 101st SCIF on Speicher. Worked again w/ ODA out of FOB Brassfied-Mora outside Samarra. It was pretty common specific to ODAs using 101st intel teams for support during my deployments between 05-09. Never met any SOT-A guys down range but I knew a couple 5th Group SOT-A guys from DLI.
May be one of your best episodes so far. He's got an amazing story, which honestly, would probably make for a really good movie. Order placed for the book.
Great episode! What a hero and person! Hope Adam is adjusted and settled in at home with his family for his next chapter. Enjoy and be grateful for the peace.
Fantastic episode guys. Adam thank you for doing what you did in the service. And thank you for sharing your story with us. There are Arab immigrants who are the bravest and most honorable people you could ever hope to meet. Only the truth can defeat ignorance and fear.
Finished the audiobook a day ago. A story is full of how we can all be trying to do the right thing and still make assumptions. What an amazing tale! Never make assumptions they make an ass out of you and me.
@@AdamGamal-od1lf oh no thank you, looking forward to the book when it arrives. Glad you wound up here, you exemplify what makes this a great place to be
@@AdamGamal-od1lf@AdamGamal-od1lf Your drive took you so far, considering you came from Egypt with very little and no English. I am a retired firefighter and AF JTAC RET.
OMG!!! ADAM IS A LEDGEND!!! I HOPE THAT IS NOT HIS REAL VOICE AND NO ONE "FINDS" HIM! THANK YOU GUYS! AND THANK YOU FOR PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK: THE UNIT. I READ IT EVERY DAY! YOUR STORY IS AN INSPIRATION!!! I LIVE MY LIFE AS IF I HAD LIVED YOURS, SIR! THANK YOU X 3 !!! [i!i]
The Team House Team! Please find a way to get Red up on here! You can cover his identity and voice like you did for Adam Gamal. The truth needs to be finally told.
He must be with the other SMU called Grey Fox as mentioned in the book Relentless Strike. Gen. McChrystal was also mentioned to go out with the operators.
@@AdamGamal-od1lf to be fair I'm mostly interested to see your perspective on the institutions. I've been the 'foreigner' most of my life, and just by that alone you get a different view. since most stories in this field are told by people with fairly similar backgrounds I think it will be an interesting difference🙂 in any case thank you for sharing your experiences and for what you did🙂
@@AdamGamal-od1lf I'm about to finish the last 2 hours of the audio book this weekend. It was such a great read. Love the insights and while I was not in the military there is a lot to connect as someone who lived as a foreigner. I definitely had the experience of watching the news thinking 'please, let it not be one of us'... Again thanks for sharing your story and experiences. Definitely widened my horizon on some topics.
Great episode, always been curious about a brown Americans military POV (I’m a brown American) bought Adam’s audiobook, and also Jacks (sry for being late😅)
The absolute balls to pull out your collection equipment right in front of the target and hope he buys your pretext of working for the telephone company… holy shit
Safe! Well done again. Your analysis is always a learning experience. The definition of the base path is what causes the controversy for sure. But, at least what is obvious to me, is that the runner was that the runner not only established the base path as the ball was caught but he was a step past the infielder as the catch was made and the infielder's position required the runner to re-establish the base path. Poor positioning, neither one attempted to adjust to the other, late release compounded by a T-Ball Throw. The Umpire should clearly have seen that the runner was forced to make the adjustment because of the infielder's position and that the tag would have been successful if not for the late and off speed throw. The runner was NOT outside the reach/tag of the infielder. My guess is that was not a reviewable play, correct?
What’s the difference between this unit he’s talking about and cag? Cause several times he references “delta” and his unit. I thought when people said the unit they were talking about cag?
The Unit typically is a moniker for Delta, but in this case it’s a completely different SMU. This particular Unit is the espionage side of JSOC. They’re job isn’t to be full time shooters like CAG or DevGru, Adams Unit is about clandestine intelligence gathering and supporting and enabling the other Tier 1 units. In Adams case he was doing a lot of SIGINT related activities. (Intercepting and leveraging the communications of the bad guys).. He’s also Egyptian and speaks many languages from the part of the world, so you can imagine the value that brings a command like Delta Force or SEALs where they need to do battlefield interrogations of captured terrorists or work alongside a host nation partner force in a hostage rescue capability. Adam and his colleagues are (very) valuable assets to Special Operations.
I don’t think Trump is a Nazi. I think Trump uses bad tactics to win elections. I am more than happy to have a more detailed discussion about that anytime you like. And thank you for good comments. Respect.
I initially thought he was in Delta and was skeptical, because Delta don't accept Muslims (Unless you're a middle easterner who is not a muslim) but then I realised he was in Task Force Orange.
@@AdamGamal-od1lf Thank you for your reply and your service! I made a mistake by using someone’s supposedly experience and commenting on something I’m not familiar with.
No problem sir. I was just clarifying from my experience. I hate for people to think Delta or the ranger have discriminatory policies which I know for fact they do not. JSOC has no room for such things.
I don't know about anybody else but for me having a big black square to hide the identity of your guests instead of just having them wear some kind of disguise it's more distracting.
@@mjw-qs4crHe's simply saying that bluring his face would make way more sense and make it mote watchable than just slapping a big black box over the screen. I'm not entirely sure what the added value of video is in this particular case, as we're watching for the guest. For once, I'll just stick to listening.
No it is not. The name ISA is public because it's old and leaked from decades ago. What the unut does, it's current name, personnel, pipelines, etc, are all S/NF/ACCM
