From Vietnam To Jumping Out Of Planes With Nukes | Bill Flavin | Ep. 258

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Mr. William Flavin is currently an independent consultant on peace and stabilization. For the past 19 years he was a department of defense civilian at the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. Previous he was the Assistant Director at the US Army Peacekeeping Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Mr. Flavin assisted PKSOI with the implementation of its Joint Proponent responsibilities in peace and stability operations coordinating with Department of Defense, Department of State and USAID. Additionally, he assisted with advancing the US Governments United Nations initiatives by working with the key member states as well as NGOs and International Forums. Previously he was a senior foreign affairs analyst with Booz Allen and Hamilton on contract to assist the Peacekeeping Institute in doctrine development. Prior to this assignment, he was a Colonel in the US Army serving as the Deputy Director of Special Operations for the Supreme Allied Commander Europe at the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) from June 1995 to June 1999. Mr. Flavin served in the US Army for 31 years in Infantry and Special Forces where he has had extensive experience in planning and executing at the Strategic and Operational level. He has participated in many of the key operations from Viet Nam through the Balkans. He was the Special Operations Chair at the US Army War College from 1991 to 1995 and prior to that serve of the staffs of the Officer of the Secretary of Defense and Department of the Army.
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0:56.0	Special operations.
1:00.0	Covert ox espionage Espionage, The Team House, with your host, Jack Murphy and David Park. Hey everyone, welcome to episode 258 of the team house.
1:19.0	I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park and our guest on tonight's show is Bill Flavin.
1:24.0	Bill did several conventional combat tours in Vietnam,
1:28.0	went on to serve in 10th Special Forces Group.
1:31.0	He ended his career working with the SAS and the Balkans going after war criminals.
1:37.5	And Bill is also a part of a recent article I wrote about the Green Light Program. This is the guys who jumped in with backpack nukes.
1:45.2	That was a real thing, believe it or not. The article is up now. It's called Red Menace, Black Ops, Green Light, and you can find it up there now.
1:55.6	Bill is a big part of it amongst maybe, you know, 15 other members of the program that I was fortunate enough to speak to. Bill, thank you for
2:04.8	joining us on the show.
2:06.0	Glad to be here. So, Bill, just to kick it off, can you tell us a little bit about
2:12.2	what your upbringing was like, where you came from,
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