In this episode, Mike joins us for round two discussing his career in RRC and this time his wife Kendell joins us to share her perspective. This was a super unique episode, both in terms of Mike's unusual career in a secretive unit and also the inclusion of his wife, and eventually even he daughter!

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Regimental Recon Company (RRC) w/ Mike Edwards: Part 2, Ep. 96

Kris Paronto joins The Team House for the first time. Kris served in 2nd Ranger Battalion (in the same platoon as host David Parke) before he became a contractor with the CIA and survived the infamous Benghazi attack.

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Kris Paronto, 2/75 Ranger, OGA contractor, Benghazi survivor, Ep. 101

Chaps served as a K9 handler in the Marine Corps and saw action in Fallujah, Iraq with 1st Recon. In this episode Chaps describes seeing combat, getting shot, and the trials (literally) and tribulations that followed, eventually leading him to starting his own blog and podcast and getting picked up by Barstool Sports.

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Uncle Chaps | Marine K9 Handler, Zero Blog 30, Barstool Sports | Ep. 119

Sean Naylor is a national security journalist who has written extensively about the Special Operations and intelligence community. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Army Times, Foreign Policy, and Yahoo News with detailed deeply reported stories about clandestine operations. He is the author of Relentless Strike which reveals the history of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and Not a Good Day to Die about Operation Anaconda. 

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Sean Naylor | National Security Journalist Takes a Deep Dive on Clandestine & Covert Ops | Ep. 120

America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan—where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an eclectic band of linguists, tribal experts, and elite warriors: the first Americans to operate inside Taliban territory. Their covert mission is to track down Al- Qaeda and stop the terrorists from infiltrating the United States again.
 
First Casualty places you with Team Alpha as the CIA rides into battle on horseback alongside the warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. In Washington, DC, few trust that the CIA men, the Green Berets, and the Americans’ outnumbered Afghan allies can prevail before winter sets in. On the ground, Team Alpha is undeterred. The Taliban is routed but hatches a plot with Al-Qaeda to hit back. Hundreds of suicidal fighters, many hiding weapons, fake a surrender and are transported to Qala-i Jangi—the “Fort of War.”
 
Team Alpha’s Mike Spann, a former Marine, and David Tyson, a polyglot former Central Asian studies academic, seize America’s initial opportunity to extract intelligence from men trained by bin Laden—among them a young Muslim convert from California. The prisoners revolt and one CIA officer falls—the first casualty in America’s longest war, which will last two decades. The other CIA man shoots dead the Al-Qaeda jihadists attacking his comrade. To survive, he must fight his way out against overwhelming odds.
 
Award-winning author Toby Harnden gained unprecedented access to all living Team Alpha members and every level of the CIA. Superbly researched, First Casualty draws on extensive interviews, secret documents, and deep reporting inside Afghanistan. As gripping as any adventure novel, yet intimate and profoundly moving, it tells how America found a winning strategy only to abandon it. Harnden reveals that the lessons of early victory and the haunting foretelling it contained—unreliable allies, ethnic rivalries, suicide attacks, and errant US bombs—were ignored, tragically fueling a twenty-year conflict.

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First Casualty: The CIA Secret Paramilitary Teams in Afghanistan | Toby Harnden | Ep. 121

"When people ask why I joined the Coast Guard, I respond that I was twenty-two, blond, and fit. In most military services that is guaranteed sexual harassment. Why not join the one with the ocean breeze?"

Caroline's journey from enlisted Coast Guard member to CIA analyst includes boot camp, Hamptons yachters named Gary, meaning making in Guantanamo Bay, and a session with a Veterans Affairs-assigned therapist who has fourteen cats, one of which cures migraines. She takes you from serious topics of sexual harassment and suicide to laughing about how her predator's moment to make her prey was oddly interrupted. You are a fly on the wall during her botched FBI polygraph and will be scratching your head about her CIA classmate who U-turns during their surveillance-detection training like she just saw a sign for a sale at Macy's.

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From Misadventures in The Coast Guard to The CIA | Caroline Walsh | Ep. 122

After a stint in the U.S. Army Erwin embarked on the ultimate adventure, traveling to the Middle East and volunteering to serve with the Peshmerga in Iraq and the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria during the war against ISIS.

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Adam served as a Counterintelligence Agent in Afghanistan and Iraq, participating in the hunt for high value targets.

Army Counterintelligence Agent Adam White, Ep. 78

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Danish Sirius Patrol with Kasper Damsø, Ep. 79

Mike Edwards served in 3rd Ranger Battalion and the Regimental Reconnaissance Company (RRC) across 18 deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places. In this interview we discuss his combat jump into Iraq in 2003, a rather hot deployment to Mosul, Iraq in 2005, and then the selection and training for RRC and what those deployments were like before he became an instructor at the military free fall course.

Apologies that this was not a live show, we had some internet issues with the snow storm here in New York. We hope to get that fixed but we decided to do a recording and upload it instead to make sure you guys got a good interview. The only thing you missed before we hit the record button was Mike and Jack talking about their time in the Ranger Regiment together and how Jack was a private running away and hiding from Mike who was a new tabbed spec-4 at the time! Special thanks to Mike and our viewers for their patience! 

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Regimental Reconnaissance Company with Mike Edwards, Ep. 81

Lino had a fascinating Special Forces career fighting the part of the war on terror you probably never heard about. From Japanese Special Ops, to classified intel missions in Chad, to rubbing shoulders with Norway's elite.

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