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From 82nd Airborne to Delta Force: Kyle Morgan’s Path Through Combat | Ep. 296 | Pt. 2

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Politics, Society & Culture, News, Personal Journals

4.96.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Morgan continues his conversation with Mike Ritland, detailing his remarkable journey through the U.S. Army. From his turbulent youth and early deployments with the 82nd Airborne in Iraq, through Ranger School, the Old Guard, and Special Forces as a Green Beret, to his selection and service with 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force), Kyle offers unfiltered insights into combat, leadership, personal struggles with alcohol and ego, team dynamics, failure and redemption at Delta selection, and the profound impact of service on his life and faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now for me, it's like a snake to a flame. Like, I'm not going to play around with it anymore

0:36.6

because of the childish

0:37.6

ways of thinking and acting, have to cease me become a man. That's why I don't travel alone,

0:42.4

all the things. I'm protecting myself from myself, but in inviting the Holy Spirit into the instinct

0:49.1

and the action, right, that space I talked about. But it's it's um why it's so courageous is because

0:57.4

the freedom that it's that it's given that i've obtained from it because of the definition of

1:04.1

insanity to expect that i could touch that model again and and something different's going to happen

1:10.6

right for the better.

1:12.2

Yeah.

1:12.7

And the thing with time under my belt with it, my life is so much better just away from it.

1:20.5

And now I can be around it and I don't like the smell of it.

1:23.1

I don't necessarily like to be in places where it's being served.

1:26.1

But, you know, at a certain point in the

1:29.0

night, I don't really go out unless it's for a function, like, with my wife, and I don't go out

1:35.8

by myself ever. But, like, if we're out, like, at Shachow, I've gone to Shachio the past couple

1:41.3

years sober, and I have a new, renewed view of, you know, how good of an experience that can be because of my tainted view of I was drunk the whole time in the past.

1:54.0

I thought everyone was drunk, but that's just not the case. That was, that was probably just me and maybe a hand, uh, maybe a lot of people.

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