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The Team House

From the Ranger Regiment to Planning the Bin Laden Raid at CIA | Aaron Brown | Ep. 194

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7929 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Aaron has over two decades of experience in law enforcement, Army Special Operations, and national security, including as a senior operations officer and field leader at the Central Intelligence Agency. Aaron is a proven problem solver and innovator, with experience leading complex, dynamic, and multimillion dollar intelligence missions across the globe, in war zones, austere environments, throughout the Near East, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Aaron supported CIA’s response to the Khowst Base bombing, one of the deadliest events in CIA history, and served as a leadership executive assistant during the Usama bin Ladin operation, one of CIA's greatest successes. Aaron is a recognized expert in the exponential risk of surveillance technology. He has advised numerous intelligence community programs about such risks and developed advanced solutions for this rapidly growing threat–hundreds have attended his sensitive talks on technology, including CIA executives and senior leaders from the Special Operations community. Aaron‘s final role at CIA was as Deputy Chief of Operations for Southeast Asia, where he gained deep regional expertise. He has earned numerous Meritorious Unit Citations, 14 other CIA Awards, and the 2015 CIA Director’s Award for Mission Impact in a Foreign Language (Arabic). ​ Aaron currently works as a senior director at an open source intelligence company he helped found. He helps private industry protect themselves from foreign nation state adversaries like China and Russia. He also helped found a nonprofit working to protect the U.S.’s critical infrastructure and technological edge. He advises DoD, CIA, the National Security Council, Department of Commerce, and numerous big tech companies, and is a guest lecturer at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. Check out Aaron here: ⬇️ https://www.undersimplified.org/undersimplified-podcast.html Today's Sponsors: BetterHelp ⬇️ https://BetterHelp.com/TEAMHOUSE ● If you want to live a more empowered life, therapy can get you there. ● Visit https://BetterHelp.com/TEAMHOUSE today to get 10% off your first month. Groove Life ⬇️ https://GROOVELIFE.com/TEAMHOUSE It's time to bring your wallet & belt game into the 21st century. Head to https://GROOVELIFE.com/TEAMHOUSE for 20% off ALL Groovelife products! 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] #cia #armyrangers #osamabinladen

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why don't you just send us an email and we'll talk about it. Special Operations, Covert Ox, Espionage, the Team House, With your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park.

1:01.0

Hey everyone, welcome to episode 194 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with

1:05.7

Dave Park and our guest tonight is Aaron Brown. Aaron served in the

1:09.6

75th Ranger Regiment and in the Central Intelligence Agency had a lot of experience in the Middle East

1:16.0

including part of in the planning of the bin Laden raid so there's there's really a lot

1:20.9

to talk about tonight we'll get to as much of it as we can.

1:24.7

Aaron, thank you for joining us tonight on the show.

1:27.8

Yeah, guys, thank you very much.

1:28.8

Glad to be here.

1:30.0

Yeah, dude.

1:31.2

You know, could you start off by telling us a little bit about, you know, how you grew up and what sort of your path was towards, towards initially military service?

1:38.0

Yeah, I had a fairly standard childhood in the Midwest and then you know headed into high school I was not a very good student in fact I think I would consider myself having been a terrible student.

1:53.8

I barely made it out of high school.

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