How Professional Are Special Forces Soldiers? "They Were Wizards Man" 

Please invite Nicholas Irving

We are all still waiting on Instructor Terry Patstone….and his mustache….!!!

totally agree!!

Spoiler alert ⚠!! He is coming on the show.

@@jamesdawson1171 FUUUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAH

@@jamesdawson1171that’s going to be epic

Fuck yea!! Shrek is amazing!

That would be amazing

He’s got to come on here dude is hilarious

@@treytheriot i’ve been commenting for three years already to Shawn to have him on one time he gave me a thumbs up a few years ago, but I still haven’t never seen him as a guest… I think it would be a awesome lighthearted interview, and then they can dive into mission stuff.

I would love to see patstone

I did that mission in Puerto Maldonado Peru covering along the Amazon River in 99. A couple years later a plane with missionaries was shot down by Peru. I don’t know if that station gave clearance but It put a real sense of seriousness on what, to that point, was more or less a fuck-off mission on a fun trip. That was my last mission to South America. I did SWSC after Peru and rotated Bragg to Afghanistan from 2003 to 2010.

@@flddoc2 Yeah those were many fun trips. I was way north in Araracuara on the Caqueta river. One of the sites reported that plane. CIA plane followed and gave a halfhearted ok to the Peruvians to shoot it down. That was the end of that. I got out in 97. My brother was a 2nd Battalion Ranger rotating in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq those years. My son led an infantry platoon with the 101st for most of 2015 in Afghanistan. Now I don’t recommend any kid join. Patients running the asylum.

@@jamesmccaughey7754 My son deployed with a Cav unit at Knox and then 173rd to Afghanistan. It was an interesting feeling rotating out as my son was entering country. He did his time and got out and very sadly, I agree. I would be very hesitant to recommend a young man joining right now unless they had incredible focus, discipline and dedication to follow a specific path to upper echelon of Special Ops or to become an aviator or getting Med school out of the deal. The 7th Group dentist and I became good friends. He came in enlisted as 11B, went to dental school and eventually got into maxillofacial surgery all paid by the army. Good man with a plan.

@@jamesmccaughey7754 Sad to hear this is the situation, a lot of guys who have a history of serving have a hard time recommending it now. I was just a 19K10 M1A1 Crewman in the mid 90s, nothing like these operators but I believed in what I joined. Man it's hard to watch what has happened.

Believe it. Team Courage

And it sounds like it was from guys that knew how hard it was to attain so they weren't pricks about it. Just professionals making sure you did what you had to.

Glad you made it out the other side, thanks. 🙏🕊️

@@lulumoon6942 Thank you.

@@getoffmylawn8986 Thank YOU buddy. 👍

I believe he's been on already

@@rheppelhe hasn’t been on yet. I’m super ready for him to be on tho!

Nah

He's comming on soon, he gave spoiler alert on his insta 😁🥳

Shrek!!!!!

Second this. Love to hear about pat Mac operating jn cold war Berlin

There's gotta be some awesome cold war soldiers still willing to be interviewed. My dad was one of them ... those guys are in their mid-80's now. Scariest thing he experienced in Germany was there was lots of political tension at the time ... and it was about to come to a head and everybody knew it. So one morning, while in the barracks before light he heard this loud CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK ... it was the nuclear cannons being raised and put into position (they never ever did that before, not even as an exercise). Every man in there sat up in their bunks and whispered amongst themselves in the dark ... holy $hit, are we really f'n doing this ?!?!? Those men were scared absolutely shitless of what they thought was about to happen. Thank God, cooler heads prevailed. My dad was a hard man, but his voice used to quiver when he told that story ... they all thought it was the onset of WW3, and they had front row seats

Norman Schwarkopf didn't really place any value on special forces. Why use a scalpel when you have a sledgehammer.

Mmmkaaaaayyyyyyyy

@@jbird4165 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@jbird4165yuuup! 😂

With guys like it’s Vague due to the nature of where they worked at.

I did 4 years in the Royal Irish Regiment (Rangers) and 5 years in the French Foreign legion. Deployed to Afghanistan, Mali and the CAR. You come across like an awful person when you describe killing in detail and once you start you get a case of the verbal diarrhea and say things you would rather not share.

You do know that Delta doesn’t officially exist right?

​@TheKristinals The reality of OPSEC. Of course, you get to smell the sizzle. You ain't gonna bite into that steak though.

They know how it works. You can win every battle but you can't win the politics.

No, I'm not gamer.

What would your guess be lol

They would not come back alive.

Operation human shield would be good for them.

Who needs numbers of men when we control water gas and airspace

Lol

Maybe explain why? Anyone can say anything nowadays..

Maybe it was you and not them SF guys don't suffer fools well at least from my 8 years on ODAs that was my experience.

Well, my ETT team had to do missions they said they and their "Commandos" were not ready to do. Nice beards though....

@@montanadad2223 Sounds like they gave low level missions to others. Or missions they had zero interest in doing.

He's an insanely good host, actually lets people talk instead of talking over them

Good to hear. The way he seemed to have a lot of trouble even forming a question to ask made me curious.

Dude just look at his numbers…but I caught him from like the very first guests and have been hooked ever since. He has grown a lot and spread into other areas but hey it is what it is…he does epic long interviews so lots of good material out there.