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From the Shadows to the Center of Power: Sean Hagerty on War, Writing, and Washington

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4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Sean Hagerty is a retired Special Operations Soldier with over 25 years of experience. He spent his younger years training and conducting combat operations with the 1st of the 75th Ranger Regiment. After nine years, in 2005, he was selected for and assigned to a Special Operations unit at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. There he spent sixteen years and finished his military career, retiring as a Sergeant Major. He received several awards and decorations throughout his career including three Bronze Stars. Sean currently works for the Department of Defense Science Board as the Senior Advisor. “The Defense Science Board (DSB) is charged with solving tough, technical, national security problems for the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretaries of Defense, the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior Department officials.” His wife Misty is an Executive Officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Their children Courtney, Travis, Samantha, and Delaney all live in the Washington D.C. area and are thriving, growing and traveling along their own paths. The grandchildren Rowen, Jameson, and Wren keep Sean and Misty busy. Sean Hagerty has combined over 25+ years of service in the Special Operations community and deep-rooted research instincts from years of academic pursuits in history to tell this story. This story was written mostly in the plush seats of the daily Tackett's Mill/Pentagon commuter bus and the shaky bucket seats of the Franconia Springfield/Largo blue metro line. However, a few chapters were written while traveling for work, taking advantage of uninterrupted thoughts on an airliner. One chapter was even written during an evening break while on a business trip aboard the USS Nimitz CVN 68 aircraft carrier out in the Pacific Ocean. Cabal all came together during evening edits in his home shared with Misty, in Lakeridge, Virginia. Jones Point was the first novel in the Dane Cooper series. Cabal is the second. The Department of Defense, Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review has cleared the publication of both novels. Review was required due to Sean's past and current security clearance. Jones Point was published by Blue Handle Publishing on April 15th, 2024. Cabal will be released June 6th, 2025.. Readers can learn more about Sean at authorseanhagerty.com and follow Sean.Hagerty.73 on Facebook/Instagram and @seanhagerty850 on TikTok.

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This is an IHeart podcast.

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The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.

0:09.2

Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.

0:17.8

This medal is for the men who went down that day.

0:21.5

On Medal of Honor, stories of courage, you'll hear about these heroes and what their

0:26.2

stories tell us about the nature of bravery.

0:29.0

Listen to Medal of Honor on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

0:33.5

podcast.

0:50.1

Music get your podcast. If it doesn't work, if it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're listening to Soft Rep Radio, special operations military news, and straight talk with the guys in the community. Field Ops smell bad, not like forgot to shower bad, like rotting Jim Sock married a dead

1:21.1

raccoon bad. But here's the deal. Clean troops are sharp troops. If you are out there ghosting

1:26.5

through enemy lines or running ops from a muddy fob, you don't have time for a hygiene crisis.

1:31.3

That's why elite units pack the scrubble wash bag, because dragging around 80 pounds of gear is hard enough without carrying your own stench cloud.

1:40.3

It's hand-powered, super compact, and knocks out laundry in 10 minutes flat.

1:45.6

Cold Alps, done.

1:47.5

Jungle Heat?

1:48.6

Done.

1:49.3

Gear cleaned while prepping for Helo Exville?

1:52.0

Double done.

1:53.5

Pack a scrubba.

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Not a second pair of regret.

1:56.7

Hey, what's going on?

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It's your host, Rad, and I am ready to roll with another episode of Soft Rep Radio for you.

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