Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team | Kyle Vowinkel

Kyle Vowinkel looks back on a 25-year FBI career that took him from counterintelligence and SWAT in Los Angeles to the Hostage Rescue Team, JSOC deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and some of the Bureau’s most high-profile crisis operations. We also discuss HRT selection, the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt, the Alabama bunker hostage rescue, and the leadership lessons behind his new book, Shaping Chaos.
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00:00 – Start
01:27 – Growing Up in San Diego & Wanting to Serve
05:38 – A Rebellious Kid Goes to West Point
07:55 – Discovering the FBI While at West Point
09:17 – Military Police, Korea & Guantanamo Bay
10:14 – Taking Back a Rioting Refugee Camp
13:17 – Learning to Lead While You’re Scared
14:35 – Leaving the Army & Applying to the FBI
18:41 – Counterintelligence & FBI SWAT in Los Angeles
21:38 – Manhunts for Cop Killers
23:31 – Working Security at the Golden Globes
26:07 – FBI SWAT Raids a Las Vegas Strip Club
28:34 – 9/11 & the FBI’s Immediate Response
30:18 – Training for FBI Hostage Rescue Team Selection
33:11 – Inside the Brutal HRT Selection Process
36:09 – Failing HRT Selection Because of His Ego
41:13 – Coming Back a Year Later & Making the Team
42:29 – The HRT New Operator Training Pipeline
45:34 – Marine Corps Scout Sniper School
47:20 – What Exactly Is the FBI Hostage Rescue Team?
50:20 – How HRT Began Working With JSOC
52:07 – The First Full FBI Embed With Task Force 275
56:17 – Going on Target in Mosul
59:03 – Capturing a Senior Al-Qaeda Leader in Tal Afar
1:05:23 – Operation Brass Balls in Ramadi
1:07:26 – HRT Operations in Afghanistan
1:09:21 – Raiding by Zodiac on the Euphrates
1:10:53 – A Deadly HRT Standoff in Puerto Rico
1:19:57 – Leaving HRT for the Crisis Negotiation Unit
1:25:56 – The Tension Between Negotiators & Tactical Teams
1:27:49 – Negotiating With Somali Pirates
1:32:56 – The Boston Marathon Bombing Manhunt
1:35:00 – Hundreds of Rounds Fired in Watertown
1:40:16 – Negotiating the Surrender of the Boston Bomber
1:47:58 – The Alabama “Bunker Boy” Hostage Crisis
1:55:07 – Discovering an IED Inside the Bunker’s Speaking Tube
2:00:40 – The Kidnapper Issues a Final Demand
2:03:42 – HRT Launches the Hostage Rescue
2:10:31 – Leaving Operations for FBI Leadership
2:14:28 – Shaping Chaos & Lessons From a 25-Year FBI Career

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