Jack Murphy is an author, journalist, & co-host of @TheTeamHousePodcast. Jack is also an eight-year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a sniper and team leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a senior weapons sergeant on a military free fall team in 5th Special Forces Group.
Thanks to zippex
Morgan and Morgan
Bluechew
For supporting this hangout
Produced and edited by @99ovrall
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:11 Blending in
03:32 Growing up upstate NY
04:44 army fascination + parents
07:27 Enlisting & progressing + French Foreign Legion
11:35 Folly of feeling invincible
15:03 Reaching your limits + Failing + Quitting
26:15 Deploying in Afghanistan
28:00 Sniper + Missions + Friendly fire incident
36:59 Distances snipers engage in
41:45 Iraq + Urban warfare + no shots fired
46:58 Black sites + insurgents fighting back
52:30 Handling stress + Mission anxiety
54:50 Leaving Iraq + joining Special Forces
55:55 Being apolitical then + Professionalism
1:03:30 War is intentional + WW1 hair-trigger mobilization
1:11:39 Special Forces + Re-deploying in Iraq
1:15:52 Difficulty in re-integrating
1:20:49 Never feeling like a kid
1:22:30 Junger + Processing & Civilian life
1:28:10 War Journalism + Smuggled into Syria
1:40:27 Mercenary mindset + Anarchists
1:43:39 Recognizing psychopathy + Cannibalism
1:50:42 Embedding w/ army v Guerrilla groups
1:57:34 Seized by border guards
2:01:27 Who are the Kurds?
2:08:57 Interviewing Bashar Al-Assad
2:15:50 Israel-Palestine
2:20:02 Russia proxy conflict with the US
2:22:54 Profiting from war + different perspectives
2:29:10 War being made into content
2:33:28 Special forces in Cyprus + Gaza deployment?
2:39:10 China & Taiwan - no imminent threat
2:48:14 Russia-Ukraine - stalemate
2:54:31 Worldwide conflicts & recalibration
3:00:21 Grifters & Frauds pushing UFO
3:08:27 Furries at cons
Jack Murphy is an author, journalist, & co-host of @TheTeamHousePodcast. Jack is also an eight-year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a sniper and team leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a senior weapons sergeant on a military free fall team in 5th Special Forces Group.
Thanks to zippex
Morgan and Morgan
Bluechew
For supporting this hangout
Produced and edited by @99ovrall
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:11 Blending in
03:32 Growing up upstate NY
04:44 army fascination + parents
07:27 Enlisting & progressing + French Foreign Legion
11:35 Folly of feeling invincible
15:03 Reaching your limits + Failing + Quitting
26:15 Deploying in Afghanistan
28:00 Sniper + Missions + Friendly fire incident
36:59 Distances snipers engage in
41:45 Iraq + Urban warfare + no shots fired
46:58 Black sites + insurgents fighting back
52:30 Handling stress + Mission anxiety
54:50 Leaving Iraq + joining Special Forces
55:55 Being apolitical then + Professionalism
1:03:30 War is intentional + WW1 hair-trigger mobilization
1:11:39 Special Forces + Re-deploying in Iraq
1:15:52 Difficulty in re-integrating
1:20:49 Never feeling like a kid
1:22:30 Junger + Processing & Civilian life
1:28:10 War Journalism + Smuggled into Syria
1:40:27 Mercenary mindset + Anarchists
1:43:39 Recognizing psychopathy + Cannibalism
1:50:42 Embedding w/ army v Guerrilla groups
1:57:34 Seized by border guards
2:01:27 Who are the Kurds?
2:08:57 Interviewing Bashar Al-Assad
2:15:50 Israel-Palestine
2:20:02 Russia proxy conflict with the US
2:22:54 Profiting from war + different perspectives
2:29:10 War being made into content
2:33:28 Special forces in Cyprus + Gaza deployment?
2:39:10 China & Taiwan - no imminent threat
2:48:14 Russia-Ukraine - stalemate
2:54:31 Worldwide conflicts & recalibration
3:00:21 Grifters & Frauds pushing UFO
3:08:27 Furries at cons