#300 - Spec Ops Commando on Afghanistan’s #1 Darkest Secret & Undercover Warfare | Johnny MF Glenn

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🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey (***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Johnny MF Glenn is a former Green Beret with over a dozen combat deployments - more than 21 years of back-to-back, nonstop, kinetic action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and parts unknown. He's seen gunfights, IED's, combat dressings, and human shields - he's been blown up five times, shot once, and had two cracks in his frontal lobe, all over the course of a career that's dotted with wild tales of 'organized' chaos that only a veteran operator could know. JOHNNY'S LINKS: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/johnnymfglenn/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@johnnyglenn-3112 FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Johnny Joining Military & Background, Split Operation (Military + High School) 11:16 - 1st Phase of Selection (Individual), Guns & Communications Skills 23:56 - Real Firefight Footage Breakdown 31:31 - Head Cams Controversy & Few Hundred Firefights 37:06 - Glenn Fighting Since Balkins to Now (1990’s - Present) 01:15:19 - Green Beret’s Unique Skills & Issues Post War 01:09:30 - Deployments Constantly Refreshing Marriage, Psychopaths are All SF’s 01:26:18 - Green Beret Team Starting a School in Afghanistan 01:28:28 - Afghanistan’s Darkest Underworld 01:33:57 - How Johnny would Fix Cartels 01:42:17 - 1st Deployment (Africa) Teaching Military, Day of 9/E1leven, 01:55:58 - North Carolina SF’s Transformers Incident (Attacks), Power Grid Attack Fears 01:59:58 - Fort Bragg by September 12th, Kandahar & Working w/ SEALs 02:09:42 - Johnny’s 15 Year Hat Story, Ambush & How to Occupy Space OTHER JDP EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: - Episode 97 - Andrew Bustamante: https://youtu.be/2PUs7l2jW9c - Episode 107 - Andrew Bustamante: https://youtu.be/7jNz3-WPV5I - Episode 150 - Andrew Bustamante: https://youtu.be/dUlc2d6fDzg - Episode 224 - Andrew Bustamante: https://youtu.be/Gv-YWfNWwkM - Episode 249 - John Kiriakou: https://youtu.be/5_FDZozJ9zE - Episode 250 - John Kiriakou: https://youtu.be/5HuyORiWoDM - Episode 278 - John Kiriakou: https://youtu.be/_CFWmuIgQIE - Episode 279 - John Kiriakou: https://youtu.be/scrGRKVa-Q4 - Episode 261 - Joby Warrick: https://youtu.be/gw6mpPIaxnM - Episode 198 - Joby Warrick: https://youtu.be/F1fhuwCT9YE - Episode 134 - Joby Warrick: https://youtu.be/Xaz7JfTLFQE CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - In-Studio Producer: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 300 - Johnny MF Glenn Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Johnny, Motherf-Glan.
0:01.7	You had a really long career with no breaks, basically.
0:04.2	So having been trained for the last three, four years,
0:06.3	I've been in the military,
0:07.1	because you never got to the show.
0:08.1	But when that phone rang, dude, we're going to the show.
0:10.4	I remember I first came to the Army, which was crazy.
0:12.3	We're going to Afghanistan.
0:13.3	That country was designed to fight it.
0:14.6	And I remember I had a team Warner. careful with Jewish. And in the valley of Afghanistan, where we were, that's the wild west. We've been a firefight all-fucking day.
0:23.6	I was white as snow, dehydrated.
0:25.6	They know how to hide.
0:26.6	They know how to drown.
0:27.6	You know, these aren't the kids that are playing Halo.
0:29.6	So somebody said, Rushet got hit.
0:30.6	At that point, I just wanted to get the Rusty.
0:32.6	You see how the hill just goes down?
0:33.6	Those guys are right there in a gun. And I remember I came all way up from the back. Like I had to get to me. And we had this young kid on a team and he goes, look at Johnny
0:41.3	Mother Glenn. He looks like a black Jesus. So all the SF team knew in a firefight and he heard
0:45.3	it. Everybody's like, Johnny Mother Glenn, Johnny Mother Glenn.
0:47.3	That's one of the best names.
0:49.3	It's the best. Hey, guys. If you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review names we've ever had come through the studio, if not the best.
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