Green Beret Exposes the Government's Chinook Shootdown Cover-Up | Ep. 294 | Pt. 1

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Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Retired Army Sergeant Major and Green Beret Terry Wilson spent 24 years in uniform with the 7th Special Forces Group, racking up 11 combat deployments and nearly 11 years total downrange. He is now the CEO of Tactical Edge Coaching and Consulting, where he works with high performance men to become better leaders in all aspects of their life. In this episode we get into the daily troops in contact grind of Helmand Province, watching a Chinook get blown out of the sky a couple hundred meters away, recovering bodies from the crash site through the night, losing a teammate to an IED within days, the brutal reality of the Afghanistan withdrawal, and hitting rock bottom after losing his son before faith and fitness gave him a way back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The internet is coaching our kids.
0:04.0	When boys hear that on repeat, it shapes how they see themselves.
0:08.0	We can't leave it to those voices.
0:10.0	We have to be louder.
0:12.0	Together with EEE, we need to coach them, guide them, back them.
0:15.0	Building our boys up every chance we get.
0:18.0	Be yourself. Back your mates.
0:20.0	Confidence comes from a vin.
0:21.7	As proud partner of the England team's
0:23.6	EEE has support and guidance to help build all our boys up
0:26.8	on and off the pitch.
0:28.1	Search EEE Yes Boys.
0:29.9	The Hulman province was like all Taliban.
0:34.8	We went up there to do a clearing operation with the 82nd and took some contact that day.
0:41.7	One of the 80 second guys got shot.
0:44.2	And then the 82nd put a bird guys out on the other side of the Humming River.
0:50.4	Snook who was shot down.
0:52.7	The report said it was a search-to-air missile. From what I can see on the ground, it did said it was a search-to-air missile.
0:55.0	From what I can see on the ground, it did not look like a search-to-air missile.
0:58.0	It looked like it was an RPG.
1:00.0	It was one of those things where they just happened to egress exactly where the enemy was,
1:05.0	and they shot it because they were blow.
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