Inside the Fight with 5th Special Forces Group | Drew Estell | Ep. 380

The Team House

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History, Government, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Former 5th Group Green Beret Drew Estelle joins Jack to walk through his wild path from a chaotic Texas childhood to Iraq, Afghanistan, and covert work supporting the Syria mission. Drew breaks down Iranian influence in Iraq, the intelligence nightmare in Kunduz, building ALP who actually fought, and the political headaches behind training Syrian forces in Turkey. A raw, detailed look inside modern Special Forces operations — and the personal cost that comes with them.

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00:00 — Start
01:00 — Texas Roots & Playing “Green Berets”
03:20 — College Chaos & Getting Kicked Out
06:35 — Enlisting & Fighting for an SF Contract
10:55 — SFAS, Failing 18D & Becoming an 18B
15:45 — Iraq: Firebase Brown & Early Combat
22:40 — Iran’s Influence & The Arrest Revolving Door
34:00 — Afghanistan: Kunduz, IMU, & ALP Who Fought
52:55 — B-Team, Kabul LNO & Turkey/Syria Mission
1:06:45 — CIF, Broken Neck & Building Bear Solutions

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1:14.7	This is episode 380 of the Team House.
1:18.4	I'm Jack Murphy with our guest tonight, Drew Estelle.
1:20.9	Drew served in Fifth Special Forces Group.
1:25.2	The guys most of our viewers know, they fixate on the Middle East.
1:26.1	That's their AOR.
1:29.9	And Drew did a number of deployments all over that place. And today works on films, works on training with law enforcement and number of other things.
1:37.8	So we're going to get into all that with Drew here. Thank you for joining us tonight.
1:42.9	Yeah, man. I appreciate it.
1:44.6	So, yeah.
1:46.5	It's great to have you on the show finally.
1:49.6	So I'm going to hit you with the first question, which we pretty much ask everybody, is if you tell us a little bit about your origin story, like how did you grow up?
1:58.8	Where did you grow up?
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