11 Deployments, a Downed Chinook, and the Grief That Broke Him Open | Ep. 294 | Pt. 2

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Mike Ritland

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Retired Army Sergeant Major and Green Beret Terry Wilson returns for Part 2 with some of the rawest conversation yet. From witnessing a Chinook go down in flames in Afghanistan to losing his son in 2020, Terry opens up about the grief he buried for years — and what it finally took to break him open. A brutally honest look at rock bottom, rebuilding, and the unlikely path that brought him back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention all passengers.
0:04.1	The Uber ride for Jeff's rugby team will depart in five minutes from Platform 15.
0:09.7	Your ride comes with six toilets and a refreshment's carriage that you'll empty within five minutes.
0:16.5	Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:20.3	Trains on Uber.
0:22.1	All right, so moving on or I guess moving back, I wanted to kind of separate it almost into chapters, Afghanistan, Iraq, Central America.
0:29.6	The two deployments to Iraq, around what time frame was that?
0:32.8	So I went to Qatar.
0:35.3	So I went to Qatar originally that was like right after September 11th happened when we went
0:41.5	to Afghanistan.
0:44.1	And at that point, like I was just Gardening Cape.
0:49.5	I was an MP, like not really doing much of anything.
0:52.0	I think it was almost a year.
0:53.6	One of that was like a year deployment.
0:55.4	That was the MP.
0:57.3	What's that?
0:57.7	As an MP.
0:58.4	As an MP, yeah.
0:59.6	I guess the, did you do an Iraq SF deployment?
1:02.8	No, I was an MP when I went to Iraq.
1:05.9	Oh, I got you.
1:07.3	The Central America stuff was that counter narcotic type?
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