Delta Force Operator and CIA Officer | Gary Harrington | Ep. 197

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 190 minutes

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I spent most of my career working in the shadows. While some of my service was spent with large groups, such as the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit, serving in Beirut in 1982, I spent most of my career working on small teams or alone. We often lived and worked with foreign military units like a Kuwaiti tank unit in the northern desert in 1996. In 1998, I worked alone in Yemen. Trouble spots on my own became my specialty. After 9/11, I launched to Uzbekistan in the vanguard for 5th Special Forces Group and served on several teams in Afghanistan during 2001 and 2002, participating in major combat operations alongside Afghan indigenous forces. Often, my mission was to enter a country to determine if other special operations forces could safely follow and operate. If so, I would develop the situation and make ready for them to arrive. In 2002, after departing Afghanistan, I moved to a mid-Eastern location to prepare the way for the next conflict. Working independently and conducting successful, often classified missions on several continents taught me the power of prudence…and the skills that must accompany it. Find Gary here:⬇️ https://www.garyharrington.net/ Today's Sponsors: SLNT (Silent) ⬇️ https://SLNT.com/?rfsn=7107485.9bde8d SLNT® sleeves, bags, cases and wallets are all exquisitely designed to ensure your devices become invisible, untrackable and silent. Get 10% off your order by using this link or using the promo code "teamhouse" at checkout! https://SLNT.com/?rfsn=7107485.9bde8d Thank you for supporting the companies that support the show ! To help support the show and for all bonus content including: -AD FREE AUDIO -AD FREE VIDEO -Access to ALL bonus segments with our guests Subscribe to our Patreon! ⬇️ https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: ⬇️ https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Social Media: ⬇️ The Team House Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.team.house?utm_medium=copy_link The Team House Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTeamHousePod Jack’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmcmurph?utm_medium=copy_link Jack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmurphyrgr?s=21 Dave’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_parke?s=21 Team House Discord: ⬇️ https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: ⬇️ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here:⬇️ https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links):⬇️ https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSample Want to sponsor the show? Email: ⬇️ [email protected] #deltaforce #cia #theteamhouse

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0:57.0	Hey folks, welcome to episode 197 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with
1:07.8	our guest today, Gary Harrington. Gary had a really incredible career stretching from the Marine Corps to Special Forces to Delta Force to the CIA.
1:18.4	We're really excited to have him on the show today and Gary thank you for joining us on a Monday evening.
1:24.8	Hey thanks it's an honor. You know I'll start from the top like we do with most of our
1:30.8	guests I'm going to ask you a little bit about you know your your upbringing and sort of that path that took you towards military service if you could kind of lay on your origins.
1:42.0	My parents were the first of their families to ever graduate high school.
1:47.0	So my grandparents, none of them ever made it out of elementary school.
1:52.0	I had one grandfather that was a hobo for a while.
1:55.6	So when I grew up, it was poor farmers and my parents for that generation that, hey, we've got to leave the farm and do something different.
2:07.0	My dad had served a couple years in the Air Force, and that was the time he met my mom when he was home on leave and I grew up, you know, it was Western North Carolina.
2:20.0	And matter of fact, when I was young, we still borrowed my grandfather's mule to plow our garden.
2:30.0	So, you know, it was, it's funny because those skills, you know, I still had relatives with an outhouse,
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