Retired Delta Force operator and Green Beret George Hand, Ep. 36
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2020
- George Hand served in Special Forces as a Green Beret and then as a operator in Delta Force. In this episode we talk about George's deployments to the Balkans, Somalia, and Colombia as well and planned ops in Haiti and Libya. We also get into the Advon Troop AKA "the funny platoon" that includes women assigned to the unit.
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I served with George in 1st Group, a great guy and very humble. We went to scuba school together. George is one smart dude and just a great operator. Good to see you George.
Thank you for your service and welcome home
Down there at MSG Burns school?? 😆
What a humble and nice guy. The best always are.
George Hand is super cool. I’m so glad guys like him are willing to talk. Excellent interview.
George was very generous with his time. Great interview guys.
My Father was in the Delta Force. He was also a Green Beret. Stephen A. Carpenter visited my Father and interviewed him for his book ' Boots on the Ground'. My Dad didn't speak about the war to me or my siblings. My Dad was a highly decorated officer in the US Army.
I enjoyed this interview very much. George Hand is very well spoken. The stories are chock full of interesting facts and high adventure.
Jesus,...imagine just chilling with George at a picnic or something. Just one of those guys you just shut up and listen intently to. Great guest guys!
Humble. Highly intelligent. Brave. Badass.Could listen to this man for hours!
Absolutly love it! George seems like an awesome dude. Really cool episode. Greetings from sweden
Great job guys! Thank You George for serving and sharing your experiences with us.
New category of thought: “...and that’s a shitty way to THINK” priceless wisdom. Thanks. LOL pure awesome.
“The Ronies” sounds like an 80’s surfer rock band 😂
Definantly true
Thank you Mr.Hand for your service and stories about it
Nice interview. Enlightening. Respect to Mr. Hand.
George Hand must have, incredible work ethic, learning all those languages, plus being a CAG soldier, someone to look up too!
He mentioned TFO in Bosnia being slack, by that does he mean intelligence support activity?
@Vedant Mehra he's talking about task force orange, so yes. He has a article on sofrep about it.
@Colton Zavitz hey thanks for replying, I will look this article up for sure, could you pls help with with the link or name of this article?
Great Show guys.. George Hand.. very interesting to hear your story. Larry is a great dude, and Mac is awesome as well! Have trained with both of the several time in N.C.
Great interview. George is so interesting. Low key badass and humble. Really enjoy his stories.
Way late to this, but it was so good to hear from Mr. Hand. I miss getting to converse with him on the old SOFREP. Glad to see he's doing OK.
Just found your channel
Absolutely love it
Awesome shit guys!
Mr. Hand and Myself shared a lot of the same air. Definitely cool. The Balkans might not have been Iraq/Afghanistan crazy, but it was basically the only game in the town at the time. In a lot of ways, Bosnia/Sarajevo was the Wild West ......... Long hair, sterile/no uniforms, "concealed" weapons, civilian vehicles. GOOD times.
Awesome interview!
Cheers, brother Robert.
Thanks for the video 🙏🏽
Incredibly interesting and informative.
Really cool interview my step-dad was involved in at least one of those war criminal pick ups. Doesn’t talk about it a lot but glad there are folks around talking about the stuff they did especially in Bosnia.
Amazing content as usual.
Army logic. Hey this new guy right out of the Q course speaks frickin Chinese! I guess we'll send him to 1st Group, you know, the group that covers Asia. OR, how about this, we send him to 7th Group and see if he can learn Spanish!
Other special forces groups deploy to other regions too. So it’s beneficial for people in any group to know Farsi, Arabic, or other languages in case there’s cross over.
Haha
Guns from the Asian Pacific end up in Mexico... just sayin.
@@DavidBryantsTranscendent that needs to be public amigo. China is helping the criminals of my country.
@@elrambo2175 its not China arming Mexicans my guy lol 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Recently read the autobiography of the founder of delta, his experience with british SAS was really interesting.
Do uk where I can find this
@@ceoagera3620 it was on the apple book store.
Saw Mr Hand on the University of Badassery Podcast. Cool guy. Cool to see him and Pat Mac interact
Thank you George.
Interesting guy, salute to you sir! Great show David & Jack.
Real American hero, thanks for sharing Mr. Hand
Great episode!
Thanks!
Great Interview! MOPP Level 4 Iraq 03' Sucked!! George is #1 Old School GI JOE!
MOPP 4 was cleared fast all the time because no WMD . M8 Alarms would give false positives because of where my unit was for a while.
Outstanding Geo,
Domo arigato gozaimashita sensei Williams!
Thanks guys 😀🙏
Thank you Mr. Hand. It's an honor.
God bless you fella's!
First three minutes were …interesting.
BTW great show, I love hearing George’s stories. That gentleman is a formidable force.
Thank you George some great stories being ex SF we here in the UK are restricted under what we call a D notice, another is writing books you don't get invites to SF reunions. I have a friend who was in Vietnam but he was badged with the Australian SAS so any come backs went that way
George much respect and thanks for everything your volunteered and continued care for many vets, I consider myself an Albuquerquian even though I no longer live there! I wonder if you know Butch Anderson?
Wow very late to this one but excellent interview what an amazing interesting guy!!
Great show!!!
Many thanks! geo
geo geo thank you for your service!
@@hammerandnails7594 Absolutely, my friend! geo
If you want to read the whole bigfoot suit story, it's in Pete blabers book The Mission the Men and Me
Watching this again and the conversation about women reminds me of a PAC clerk we had once in my unit (MP). Girlfriend was an E-7 and had been stationed with an SF group at Ft. Bragg before she came to us.. But she wouldn't hesitate to tell everybody in earshot about "When I was in SF." Um... hate to break it to you there big sarge, but you worked in the office there just like you do here lol.
Great interview. I always felt that I'm not living the dream until I've sweated buckets inside my mopp suit (as a way to mentally counter balance the level 10 suck meter).
Nah, fuck that mopp suit bruh. In the summer it will kill you it’s damn self.
I hate I missed this live session.
Sorry guys I have to go for a scan thanks for this 😀💜🙏
OH MY GOD THSA SO AWEOSME
Great interview especially his recollections of Bosnia.
Indocin huh? Gezz, wish I had that while cruising the WV hills around Dawson (10/84 S&A) ...Major RESPECT for George!!!
@DEAN DANIELSON you have to make regular army first. Then some sort of special operations, rangers, green berets soar. Then if and when you make that you may get the opportunity to try out for sofd-d. But until then stay healthy stay in shape and stay out of trouble. Most unit guys are in their mid 30's
That would all depend on the individual and their skill level between a Delta guy and a Spetznaz guy. Both generally kill the enemy with weapons not with martial arts.
Big fan of your channel guys, great content.. unique 👋👋
Well done 👏 😀🙏
George Hand is an amazing human being. The kind of person the Australian SASR would like to work with.
I get war feelings from the mention of Alabama NBC training. I was a split option and did my Basic in McClellan where the compound was. By the time I got to AIT the NBC school moved to MO and McClellan was getting decommissioned. Going through that compound was a cool experience in retrospective
I know you posted this comment over two years ago, but was this in or close to the Anniston Army Depot? Didn’t the army use that base for CBRN training?
@@upchu005 yeah. Front McClellan was the home of the Chemical Corps for a time before the NBC school moved to Missouri
I have spent many an hour and day at Yakima in Mopp 4 the most miserble days of my life! Humping the hills at YFC is not pleasant in the best of conditions!
Frkn grt interview!!! VERY indepth if you really listen there is a TON of info here I love it Delta was my dream job (never got a chance to go aside from recruitment seminar) so I live through these lol I wonder how the Pentagon feels about these.... Civilians dont realize how smart Troops are especially SOF!
Delta Operators are legend
So before BRAC in 1995 Fort McCellan was the home of the Army Chemical Warfare School. They had a special chemical warfare lab out in the back 40. There they could train with live agent in small quantities. It was all very controlled. It was convenient since Anniston Army Depot was just a few miles away and housed large stocks of GB, VX, and HD.
After is was closed in 95 the facility was taken over by the CDP. Center for Domestic Preparedness. They operate the Chem Lab, and provide training for various disciplines tailored to LE, EMS, Fire, and Medical professionals.
I’ve been there twice. And through the Chem Lab both times. They bring in GB and VX so you can use different types of test equipment to confirm the presence of it. Pretty interesting training.
We did one exercise in full gear where the temps were only in the mid 80’s. When I pulled off my Tyvek coveralls and all my sweat poured out on the floor there was a puddle about 5 feet around. The only thing that allowed us to last as long as we did was the combination of being on air, not sucking a filter, and getting hosed down as we were dragging dummies through an emergency Decon station on the way to technical decon.
We found out that when it comes to rehab after coming out of suits you could give an operator an IV to try and rehydrate them. But you can only give so much before you can put a person into shock by watering their blood down.
Pretty interesting man
Thank you from a mm2 65-68 you guys went through hell.
He is talking about the COBRA class at the old tank depot in Anniston, Alabama. Good times.
Would love to hear these operators talk about the difference between officers and enlisted guys
Please add some timeline on separate topics as the conversation progresses
GEO is the man!!
Thanks for the intel on Robbie Horrigan. It was June 17, 2005 Robbie ejected. He was high speed low drag. BTW John Horrigan is the knife builder and can be found on line. He still builds knifes in between trying to fill his freezer with wild game. Gods speed Robbie...stay golden.
Mr. Hand if you like I don't know if you read the History of Brigadier General Edward Hand in Pittsburgh PA. He was from county Offaly
Ireland.who fought with the British against the French at Fort Pitt.maybe you might be interested! Thanks for the Video Guys.
was the bass fisherman you were thinking of SGM Jamey Caldwell?
2:00:42 Hello for a cuban fan! great work, we monitoring here too, ok! lol...
Mine is painting, sewing art writing poetry and I love research I did a woodwork course in London I would like to work with electrics material to make sculptures 😀
Love the show love the guests but how do I get rid of the 300 ads?
Should be good now. We fixed it. Sorry about that but it was automatic UA-cam settings.
I was 0311 in lar platoon attached the 2/2 weapons company on the uss baatan on the 22nd meu. We were off the coast of liyba prepared for a amphibious assault landing on the beach . The plan changed because of the intel reports of sea mines along 900 miles of the beach coastline . So the assault from the sea was canned. The new plan was to sail to Italy to load our the lavs and cat platoons humvees on c17s. We were aware of the subterranean complex with possible chemical weapons threat . 2/2 fox company was going to secure the airport for the c17s to land . Lar platoon and cat were to push towards entrance of the subterranean complex. Naturally the op got called off entirely from higher .We continued to sail around the mediterranean for the 11months .
Every now and again I read the “Task Force Mandarin” article for a good chuckle.
They told me we used live Sarin and VX too but now in hindsight I'm not so sure it was. I mean they could have just told us it was and we'd all take it seriously. But we did the whole decontamination line too.
Thanks Patriots ! :)
Cheers, patriot! geo
Just for listening I think there's a big difference in age groups between the 3 of you. And how would you compare that today for what's going on. And what's going on is not very pleasant, Thank you for your service And Sacrifices God-bless America
The "Trojan Horse" truck idea was going to be used in Eagle Claw as well.
Score -- yes it was.
Interesting about the females. I know the South Koreans had female operators in the 80s (707th SMB) when I was there. All HALO/Static, SCUBA qualified. And of course Tang Soo Do.
It's cornholio sickness... 😂
MOPP in Desert Storm completely sucked!!!!! Many times training, with weapons and even trying to hook that stupid canteen up sucked, that black charcoal crap was a pain to get off. Better hope your lens don’t fog up either or you’re just a walking dead man. Good times! Agree, I’m still shocked none of us died from heat stroke.
There was a dude I only knew as Tony, all of 6’6” and somewhere in the range of 375 that would have rocked that Bigfoot outfit with ease. I would believe Bosnia would have been before his time in delta however.
New to the channel. What background do the hosts of the channel have?
SF I believe.
Geo you forgot to mention Creole French mein Bruder.
Mr Cook Mitchell is a dear friend
Colombia I have watched documentries on drugs and police and arm foces interesting.
Interesting of all of you talking tech, knowing about tunnelling mining, electrical boards, using breathing like oxygen tanks etc 😀 😄
That MOP Suit is VERY HOT in the summer. It is also very hard to breath in too.
Starts at 7:00 minutes.
This guy is so different from SGM Vining.
Tungst ......The quite professional
Whats that delta owned knife company?
AND.. KOREAN (Hangul mal) is added to that dossier.
He said screw that hemp oil
How the hell did a Bigfoot mission go down lol
Is this on the Apple podcast app?
Yep, just look for "The Team House".
37:00 minute mark..... Just proves what I have always said, women hate each other.
Only women understand other women, & they don't even like each other. So what chance do men have?
was Hand B Sqaudron of the 1st SFOD-D?
A-Squadron
What was TFO? Task Force Orange SIGINT augmentation unit?
Intelligence Support Activity, aka Orange among many other names.
David Bury Incorrect
Ravi S. Correct
I enjoy this but is this a good idea having something like this for our enemies to monitor ?
Yes. They need to just talk to fellow soldiers.
The stuff he talks about is over 2 decades old. Things have changed so much since then.
Would love to know if you knew my good friend M Cook
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Wow..operate from bragg...me being just a soldier the flight wore me out leaving Bragg to Kuwait. Just seems like a super crazy.
Anniston Alabama.
Fort Mclellan Alabama.
They stopped the salbutamol