Mayhem in Ramadi | Lee Deckleman | Ep. 364

The Team House

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History, Government, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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This episode features Lee Deckleman, a former Green Beret, Army Ranger, and private security contractor, who shares his experiences from combat zones like Ramadi. He discusses his journey from a high-stakes, violent career to finding peace and purpose through mindfulness, yoga, and walking the Appalachian Trail.
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00:00 - Start
15:30 - Joining the military and Special Forces
35:29 - Career shift to civilian security
54:45 - First combat experience in Ramadi
58:16 - The concept of "internal volume"
01:00:03 - Walking the Appalachian Trail
01:30:05 - Security work at Facebook and DEI
01:52:54 - Discovering yoga for trauma
02:00:05 - The book The Body Keeps the Score
02:12:34 - Advice for veterans
02:12:59 - Final thoughts on integrity

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0:00.0	Special Operations
0:03.4	Covert Ops, espionage, the Team House,
0:11.9	with your host, Jack Murphy, and David Park.
0:21.5	Hey, everybody, welcome to Team House, episode 300, everybody.
0:22.7	Welcome to Team House, episode 364.
0:26.2	I'm Dave Park.
0:27.8	Joining us tonight is Lee Deckleman.
0:31.0	Lee is a former Ranger, former SF, a plankholder at Triple Canopy.
0:41.7	Has done a lot of great things, a lot of wild things,
0:45.7	a general man about town, international man of mystery, as it were.
0:48.0	Thanks for joining us tonight, Lee.
0:51.2	Thanks, Dave.
0:52.8	I appreciate you having me.
0:57.3	I'm grateful any time I can unpack my life story.
1:02.7	And, you know, among my trod.
1:14.3	It is a hell of a story, too. Lee wrote a book about his life. I mean, going all the way back. Actually, your birthday is only one day after mine.
1:16.3	So you're a quarries.
1:17.6	Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
1:23.7	But the name of the book is internal volume.
1:32.4	And as we get more into your story, you can tell us where internal volume comes from.
1:39.1	Because it's really, it's not just a story about your life, but it's a story about, I don't say your dysfunction, but your trauma.
1:40.8	And not just, you know, trauma from war or trauma from combat trauma from security or
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