I did two deployments in strike cells in Iraq as a contractor. By far the highlight of my military and contracting. I’d love to find books written about the final push in Mosul. It was crazy up there. I witnessed months of it via FMV from Baghdad.
I’m an ex British Army JTAC n I never thought of myself as SF in anyway, I did pass P Company which is supposed to be the hardest course bar SAS or SBS selection. Also our JTACs are multi service “army, RAF & Navy”. I do have some great stories & some narrow escapes whilst on 1 of my 8 op tours from 1990 desert storm, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq a couple of times & afgan a few times until I was injured n was chucked out in 2008. Was attached with marines & Paras to a few SF teams which was awesome.
@@frankv7774 I went to the ILLRP school with a few 173RD folks in Weingarten back in the day. That school is sadly gone now I understand. I will forever have a deep love for V Corps. Thank you Frank for your service.
Wes - your right on the money re a diplomatic relationship between Coalition/Iranian forces. There was ground cooperation in maybe the first 4 months out of necessity
Since he mentioned the kurds. Man I have so much respect for them. To me it seems like they have lost a lot more than anyone else. They did a lot of the fighting themselves and i just wish at the end we would have done more for them as in if we promised them something as a country and gave them our word i hope to god we kept it.
I’ve always heard A-10s are the big favorite for strikes and CAS, but what about ISR? Is the “staff favorite” Shikaka aka can’t be talked about? Or is it whatever can stay on station longest? That super secret shikaka stuff sounds like more of a PITA tbh.
Awesome interview. This isn’t a specific field that gets a lot of focus and really should have more light shined on it. Definitely hoping to see more FIRES enablers on here in the future.
Around 2013 or so, I had graduated college with a computer science bachelors, had worked my first desk job and had this moment of horror that the next 40 years of my life would be behind the desk. So I walked into the army recruiters office, took the asvab, apparently scored 95th percentile, discussed options but didn't want to do anything I wouldn't be able to kick some doors, wanted 18B mos, or 18x mos, suggested 18A mos, then all that talk came to an abrupt end when they asked if I'd ever been in trouble. Sure, not really- I had a DUI a few years prior, that's it, they didn't want me. Curious if it was just the time/era of the war when things were beginning to wind down. Perhaps in 2001 that wouldn't matter. But I've always wondered why the branches don't accept anyone with any type of criminal record. You'd think that the best people for the job are those that sort-of walk the line between law abiding upstanding citizen and criminal. I've since racked up a bunch more charges on my criminal record, did about 5 years in prison, and now I work 2 full-time jobs doing the software dev thing. It's a lot more money, but I often wonder how my life might have turned out if I hadn't been turned away for that DUI.
Well, with the type of $hit some guys manage to whip up by doing relatively minor wrong things, I'm not that surprised that a DUI would mean no-go. There is a reason for the policy being what it is, not saying I personally agree, just saying that I've seen teams go sour because of one guy being unable to stick to regs, getting kicked out, and that in turn reflecting badly on his buddies, some of whom lost the appetite etc, in the end a whole unit being affected negatively to some degree. It is what it is, they don't want to take the chance and I can see why - the risk is that an individual causes a sort of domino effect.
Dude is like me but worse, wasting a bunch of time, slots etc before figuring out what he wants to do. I went for AF comms, strategic coordination etc, but ended up long range recon bush monkey lol. I didn't like wearing a tie and sitting in an office environment, so I went the other extreme crawling around in the woods with a sniper rifle on my back and moss growing behind my ears. Most thought and still think I'm crazy, swapping a nice office for backwoods tent living, but I preferred it. Believe it or not, the AF does train a few recon sniper types each year, but very few. In Finland. And yes, at times my job was to shoot at airplanes ;-) but on the ground from a mile or so away.
@@saucysauce593 Yes. The shooting at airplanes part being a sort of joke clue, a recurring type of joke in training of what we are not supposed to do, but obviously could. Our version of going off the reservation in the sense that there are very few of us and shooting at the things we are supposed to observe and report on is the likely fastest way to get killed, because we will get enemy mortar fire or arty tossed our way very quickly. Reality is not like a movie, the enemy side doesn't have a death wish and isn't going to send guys for us to pick off, they'll just send welcome presents that go boom. The proper thing of course is report on what we see and work with arty fire control or strike guys to target what we see, and stay hidden. The value of it being that then we can also assess the effectiveness of what was dropped on target and supply corrections if needed.
Desert Storm - 100 hour ground war. Day 3 Battalion JTAC driver was burning documents. Fire got loose and set JTAC hummer on fire. Burned it to the ground along with the special radios and small arms & AT4's . Big fun that day at Bn TAC. Sad embarrassing day in AIr Force history.
And don't forget that in Syria to we where also working with alkeida We might have called them by a different name but they where definitely who they where.
Also, praying for everyone at/around HKIA. ISIS is there, planning something. Hopefully we have some capability to keep everyone safe as possible in addition to minimizing the civcas that will most likely occur.
You know i think if the American people knew about the strike forces we would have had more support for having the soldiers there that we had but at the time i understand and i think if people watch this podcast they would understand why we could not be told. Honestly I try to keep up and out as much as i can about why we where and are in countries instead of just saying we shouldn't be there. Most people still dont know what kind of evil stuff people in Iraq and Libya had to go through. I mean they opened back up the open air slave markets in Libya for gods sake. Or what about the practice in Iraq the practice that when a boy reaches a certain age he is passed around and sexually assaulted by all of his uncles and they call it some kind of tradition,relgiin or whatever they tlll themselves to make it ok.
And there are and where a lot of religious leaders and war lords oovers seas that hate ISiS. They say they are an evil unlike no other that needs to be wiped off this earth. Unfortunately they are getting their ranks back together.
Obama could have prevented what happened to the Yezidiis and to the Christians in Iraq. He also could have protected our troops better by not tying their hands with ridiculous rules of engagement.
honest question, did Obama decide that or did the Officers decide that? Not really sure if the president makes the call on ROEs once assets are in action unless it's like special forces.
@@globaladdict what? All I’m saying is president Obama didn’t wanna get involved in the ISIS uprising just yet, the yazadi genocide got us into gear with air strikes and SOF units on the ground
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I'm just confused, any JTAC would answered my question swiftly about the rangefinder they use maybe he was not on the ground with troops, nothing that I asked was TS .Do you want me to ask for TS stuff I can do that😂😂 anyway, about that air force, it is an old green berets joke stay safe we all love spooky plane
Any chance we can start getting chapters added to these videos so we can skip to time stamps based on subjects covered during each interview? Thanks!
I did two deployments in strike cells in Iraq as a contractor. By far the highlight of my military and contracting.
I’d love to find books written about the final push in Mosul. It was crazy up there. I witnessed months of it via FMV from Baghdad.
I’m an ex British Army JTAC n I never thought of myself as SF in anyway, I did pass P Company which is supposed to be the hardest course bar SAS or SBS selection. Also our JTACs are multi service “army, RAF & Navy”. I do have some great stories & some narrow escapes whilst on 1 of my 8 op tours from 1990 desert storm, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq a couple of times & afgan a few times until I was injured n was chucked out in 2008. Was attached with marines & Paras to a few SF teams which was awesome.
He mentions around 18:00 that historically combat controllers came from special operations.
Thank you so much for these interviews!
Our pleasure!
I need time stamp guy…
A year later and no time stamps lol
Watched this episode twice now. Solid one, gents!
Our TACP assigned to my LRS team in 03' Iraq was a lifesaver in a few instances.
Where was your LRS team out of?
@@blue_diamond_gem I was Team 3 team leader of 173rd Airborne 74th Inf lrsd out of Italy
@@frankv7774 I went to the ILLRP school with a few 173RD folks in Weingarten back in the day. That school is sadly gone now I understand. I will forever have a deep love for V Corps. Thank you Frank for your service.
Hey, someone seems familiar lol😊
Wes - your right on the money re a diplomatic relationship between Coalition/Iranian forces. There was ground cooperation in maybe the first 4 months out of necessity
When Wes said wow during the manscaped commercial I laughed a little too much
1:07:00 too good
Thank you
Since he mentioned the kurds. Man I have so much respect for them. To me it seems like they have lost a lot more than anyone else. They did a lot of the fighting themselves and i just wish at the end we would have done more for them as in if we promised them something as a country and gave them our word i hope to god we kept it.
Yooo Jack where’d you get that shirt?
Shout out to 334th training squadron Kessler Air Force Base Biloxi MS.
Awesome interview. Extremely informative on behind the scenes operations. Plus you can tell this dude has seen some shit. 1:00:22 get some! Gjakmarrja
I’ve always heard A-10s are the big favorite for strikes and CAS, but what about ISR? Is the “staff favorite” Shikaka aka can’t be talked about? Or is it whatever can stay on station longest? That super secret shikaka stuff sounds like more of a PITA tbh.
well, the ac-130 spectre gunship is still the most dangerous thing in the sky for destroying shit on the ground and has a pretty good loiter time
Awesome interview. This isn’t a specific field that gets a lot of focus and really should have more light shined on it. Definitely hoping to see more FIRES enablers on here in the future.
Where did Jack get that cool t-shirt? Love that cartoon spec ops dude !
Around 2013 or so, I had graduated college with a computer science bachelors, had worked my first desk job and had this moment of horror that the next 40 years of my life would be behind the desk. So I walked into the army recruiters office, took the asvab, apparently scored 95th percentile, discussed options but didn't want to do anything I wouldn't be able to kick some doors, wanted 18B mos, or 18x mos, suggested 18A mos, then all that talk came to an abrupt end when they asked if I'd ever been in trouble. Sure, not really- I had a DUI a few years prior, that's it, they didn't want me. Curious if it was just the time/era of the war when things were beginning to wind down. Perhaps in 2001 that wouldn't matter. But I've always wondered why the branches don't accept anyone with any type of criminal record. You'd think that the best people for the job are those that sort-of walk the line between law abiding upstanding citizen and criminal. I've since racked up a bunch more charges on my criminal record, did about 5 years in prison, and now I work 2 full-time jobs doing the software dev thing. It's a lot more money, but I often wonder how my life might have turned out if I hadn't been turned away for that DUI.
Well, with the type of $hit some guys manage to whip up by doing relatively minor wrong things, I'm not that surprised that a DUI would mean no-go. There is a reason for the policy being what it is, not saying I personally agree, just saying that I've seen teams go sour because of one guy being unable to stick to regs, getting kicked out, and that in turn reflecting badly on his buddies, some of whom lost the appetite etc, in the end a whole unit being affected negatively to some degree. It is what it is, they don't want to take the chance and I can see why - the risk is that an individual causes a sort of domino effect.
Sound quality again,,jumping between earphones!
Man! Your audio has really improved since '21 :P
Please add time stamps!!
Dude is like me but worse, wasting a bunch of time, slots etc before figuring out what he wants to do. I went for AF comms, strategic coordination etc, but ended up long range recon bush monkey lol. I didn't like wearing a tie and sitting in an office environment, so I went the other extreme crawling around in the woods with a sniper rifle on my back and moss growing behind my ears. Most thought and still think I'm crazy, swapping a nice office for backwoods tent living, but I preferred it. Believe it or not, the AF does train a few recon sniper types each year, but very few. In Finland. And yes, at times my job was to shoot at airplanes ;-) but on the ground from a mile or so away.
Were you SR?
@@saucysauce593 Yes. The shooting at airplanes part being a sort of joke clue, a recurring type of joke in training of what we are not supposed to do, but obviously could. Our version of going off the reservation in the sense that there are very few of us and shooting at the things we are supposed to observe and report on is the likely fastest way to get killed, because we will get enemy mortar fire or arty tossed our way very quickly. Reality is not like a movie, the enemy side doesn't have a death wish and isn't going to send guys for us to pick off, they'll just send welcome presents that go boom.
The proper thing of course is report on what we see and work with arty fire control or strike guys to target what we see, and stay hidden. The value of it being that then we can also assess the effectiveness of what was dropped on target and supply corrections if needed.
Were you in while it was still SOWT or did you join after it transitioned, and if so how did the mission change @@noth606
Desert Storm - 100 hour ground war. Day 3 Battalion JTAC driver was burning documents. Fire got loose and set JTAC hummer on fire. Burned it to the ground along with the special radios and small arms & AT4's . Big fun that day at Bn TAC. Sad embarrassing day in AIr Force history.
Kinda bummed he didn't talk more about the Russians ngl. The book had some good detail about them
“Frenimies” lmao
Great dude but man that first 20 mins of the podcast is brutal.... And usually TH podcasts are the bomb lol
Ye old Fleming Key Dive Center. Bull and Lemon Shark Heaven
And don't forget that in Syria to we where also working with alkeida We might have called them by a different name but they where definitely who they where.
I'd love to go back to the days when spec ops guys didn't write books and America actually won wars
Then you wouldn’t be able to post a UA-cam comment to make yourself feel better
@@TheTeamHousePodcast 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Also, praying for everyone at/around HKIA. ISIS is there, planning something. Hopefully we have some capability to keep everyone safe as possible in addition to minimizing the civcas that will most likely occur.
If the USMC recruiter was saying you could be a medic in Recon by joining the USMC then he was lying out of his ass.
You know i think if the American people knew about the strike forces we would have had more support for having the soldiers there that we had but at the time i understand and i think if people watch this podcast they would understand why we could not be told.
Honestly I try to keep up and out as much as i can about why we where and are in countries instead of just saying we shouldn't be there. Most people still dont know what kind of evil stuff people in Iraq and Libya had to go through. I mean they opened back up the open air slave markets in Libya for gods sake. Or what about the practice in Iraq the practice that when a boy reaches a certain age he is passed around and sexually assaulted by all of his uncles and they call it some kind of tradition,relgiin or whatever they tlll themselves to make it ok.
I always tell people that being a JTAC is not a job, but rather a qualification. But in this case...it was THE job!
I wonder if he know David P Taylor? USAF Special Ops. I think he ran into trouble and lost everything. What a sick person. Cheers!
And there are and where a lot of religious leaders and war lords oovers seas that hate ISiS. They say they are an evil unlike no other that needs to be wiped off this earth. Unfortunately they are getting their ranks back together.
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Obama could have prevented what happened to the Yezidiis and to the Christians in Iraq. He also could have protected our troops better by not tying their hands with ridiculous rules of engagement.
honest question, did Obama decide that or did the Officers decide that? Not really sure if the president makes the call on ROEs once assets are in action unless it's like special forces.
@@globaladdict the president at that point didn’t wanna get involved In the ISIS mess just yet
@@Arbiter710 so are you and Kathryn gonna make us some super anti-isis Walmart future hires or what are we talking about anyways?
@@globaladdict what? All I’m saying is president Obama didn’t wanna get involved in the ISIS uprising just yet, the yazadi genocide got us into gear with air strikes and SOF units on the ground
@@globaladdict 😂😂😂
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Your intro is cringy af 😂 but I love the content
It makes me want to turn it off, it’s worse than the 80’s intro for the A TEAM
VECTOR 21
THE TYPICAL FORWARD OBSERVER DEVICE
VECTOR 21 is a true binocular rangefinder with outstanding day optics, an integrated 3-dimensional, 360° digital compass, and a precise class 1 eye-safe laser rangefinder. The VECTOR 21 increases the range for distance measurements up to 12 km. It also has a 1,550nm laser is invisible to image intensification devices, providing an added level of security.
JIM LR
LONG-RANGE MULTIFUNCTION INFRARED BINOCULARS
The JIM LR is designed for military and civilian applications and is fully qualified according to the most stringent standards. It is key to the success of any large-scale infantry modernization program and is a valuable tool in rescue operations. laser rangefinder with cooled thermal imaging JIM LR, a display is attached to the helmet to receive a video signal from the aircraft. but I`m just pew pew guy I could be wrong and I do not talk about GPS shit you can use
Something about him that I don’t believe all he says.
I'm just confused, any JTAC would answered my question swiftly about the rangefinder they use maybe he was not on the ground with troops, nothing that I asked was TS .Do you want me to ask for TS stuff I can do that😂😂 anyway, about that air force, it is an old green berets joke stay safe we all love spooky plane
Usaf better keep JTAC and A10.