From Green Beret and Army Special Mission Unit to Secretary of Defense | Chris Miller | Ep. 205

Peter McAleese has lived a hard, violent life from the slums of Glasgow, serving in Aden & Borneo with 22SAS, combat w/ Rhodesian SAS, Pathfinder Co. in South Africa, and as a mercenary in Angola and Colombia where he was hired to kill Pablo Escobar. Get Peter's books here: https://www.petermcaleese.com/ Support the show and get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.team.house/ Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

15 Maj 20211h 38min

1978—a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents. Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and intelligence community veterans like Penguini, Max, Reek, The Spider Woman and a score of others—some heroes and some villains—they undertake a variety of missions for the government, other governments, large multinational corporations mostly in the aerospace or resource development industries, and occasionally just for suffering individuals who cannot find help anywhere else. In the process they lay the groundwork for an entire new industry of private military contractors. Two men sadly just a bit ahead of their time. Every episode in this book actually happened. Not always precisely as described herein, but close. Changes have been made sometimes to make the narrative flow more smoothly, some to obfuscate events that might be flirting with classification issues… Names have been changed, not always to protect the innocent. But the underlying story is, for the most part, the reality as they lived it. Get Vagabonds here: https://www.amazon.com/Vagabonds-Tourists-Darkness-Nick-Brokhausen/dp/1612009956 Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

8 Maj 20212h 1min

Major (ret.) Mike Perry served in Special Forces as an enlisted soldier before going officer and commanding the 1st Special Forces Group CIF sniper element in the Philippines and then as Executive Officer in Iraq, leading combat ops. He also deployed to Afghanistan, and all over Asia with Special Forces. Sponsored by : https://www.MANSCAPED.com Use promo code "TEAM20" at checkout for 20% off your purchase. Your balls will thank you! Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Podcast version of this show can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-796052562/1st-special-forces-group-cif-leader-mike-perry-ep-91 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

1 Maj 20212h 51min

Lindsay served in the CIA as a case officer and is the author of Blowing My Cover. In this episode we talk about her upbringing that lead her into the CIA, her training at the farm, her first assignment in Macedonia, rubbing shoulders with a paramilitary goon squad, preparing for the invasion of Iraq at Langley, and much more. Her book can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Blowing-My-Cover-Life-CIA/dp/0425205622/ Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

24 Apr 20211h 57min

Bill Gage joined the Secret Service in 2002 and soon found himself in a major national security investigation in cooperation with the CIA in which the IRA and North Korea were involved in counterfeiting US currency with such detail that the fake bills could not be detected. Later, he made it on the Secret Service Counter Assault Team which protects the President, Vice President, and other select principles. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

17 Apr 20213h 8min

A 22-year veteran of the FBI, he retired as the Supervisory Special Agent of the Houston Division’s Special Operations Group. During his career he supervised a number of investigative squads, including criminal enterprise and organized crime, a drug trafficking task force, a multi-agency intelligence group, as well as counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence and criminal investigations. He was also the Undercover Program Coordinator and Assistant SWAT Team leader and served as an investigator and case agent on a number of complex cases requiring sophisticated investigative techniques and undercover operations. As a case agent and Supervisory Special Agent, he successfully helped dismantle Colombian and Mexican Drug Cartel operations, as well as Asian and Russian Criminal Enterprises, receiving over twenty commendations for his exemplary efforts. He was a member of the FBI’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team and a firearms instructor and an international police instructor at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok, and at the Middle East Law Enforcement Academy, in Dubai. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

10 Apr 20211h 58min

Danny Coulson was the first leader of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and stood the unit up. In this episode we discuss his early career under J. Edgar Hoover when he was targeting communists and then the black panthers. We then get into his work with Delta Force, SEAL Team Six, the SAS, and other SOF units to help create HRT. Finally, Danny tells us about HRT's first big deployment. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Podcast version of this show can be found here: Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

3 Apr 20212h 27min

Chuck O'Conner delivers a master class in explosive breaching. First we discuss his military career in SEAL Team 2 and SEAL Team Six deploying to Bosnia, spinning up for some counter-terrorism operations, then working executive protection in Haiti. Chuck then gives his presentation on why explosive breaching techniques today are fundamentally flaws as currently practiced. Then we talk about the way forward and how to prevent operators from Traumatic Brain Injury. Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Podcast version of this show can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-796052562/deadly-special-ops-missions-in-the-pech-valley-with-wes-morgan-ep-85 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSampleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.

27 Mars 20212h 30min