From Special Forces to the 160th SOAR | Nick O'Kelly | Ep. 362
The Team House
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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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00:00 - START
3:07 - The 18X-Ray Special Forces Pipeline Experience
13:10 - Stationed in Okinawa & Early Experiences with 1st SFG
27:24 - Decision to Pursue Army Aviation (Flight School)
30:09 - Flight School Challenges & Mental Health Struggles
53:19 - Pursuing the 160th SOAR (Night Stalkers)
1:00:09 - Green Platoon & Advanced 160th Training
1:11:06 - Seeking Help for Anxiety & Misdiagnosis of Narcolepsy
1:29:58 - Writing the Book "Stigma" and its Mission
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Special Operations. |
| 0:06.1 | Covert Ops. Espionage. |
| 0:10.8 | The Team House. |
| 0:12.8 | With your hosts, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 0:21.7 | Hey, guys. Welcome to episode 362 of the podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | Ah, sorry, I just had to mute something. |
| 0:30.7 | Episode 362 of the Team House, I'm Jack here with Dave, |
| 0:33.7 | and our guest on tonight's show is Nick O'Kelly. |
| 0:37.0 | Nick served in Special Forces in first group in Okinawa, deployed to the Philippines, |
| 0:43.5 | went to flight school, served in third combat aviation brigade, deployed to Afghanistan, |
| 0:50.1 | went and assessed for 160th Special Operations Aviation. |
| 0:53.8 | You were a Black Hawk guy, didn't direct deployment, and then got medically retired and now run a financial planning firm. And you have a book called Stigma coming out October 21st. So that's the thumbnail sketch. That's our show. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Nailed it. No. |
| 1:11.9 | Thanks for coming in. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:13.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:14.3 | Thanks for coming up, too. |
| 1:16.6 | It's always fun to have people in the studio. |
| 1:17.0 | I agree. |
| 1:12.7 | It's a lot better environment. It's a lot more fun. Yeah, for sure. So yeah, Nick, I mean, the question we typically ask our guests first is their origin story. If you want to tell us a little bit about kind of like your upbringing and how that took you towards the military. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah. typically ask our guests first is their origin story if you want to tell us a little bit about |
| 1:27.8 | kind of like your upbringing and how that took you towards the military yeah so grew up in western |
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