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The Jack Carr Channel

PREPARED with Mike Glover

The Jack Carr Channel

Jack Carr

Society & Culture

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is former Green Beret and CIA contractor Mike Glover.


Mike spent 18 years in the U.S. Army, followed by time as a contractor for the CIA. He served as a SGM in Special Forces in various positions and deployed multiple times to combat theaters of operation. He is a sought-after expert in counterterrorism, security, and crisis management.


Join Jack and Mike as they discuss Mike’s special operations background and his company, Fieldcraft Survival, which is focused on educating, training, and equipping citizens for worst-case scenario events.


They also discuss the potential threat of black swan events in 2024 and the critical need for individual and family preparedness.


Mike is the author of the bestselling book Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios and is the host of the Mike Force Podcast.


To learn more about Mike, follow him on Instagram @mike.a.glover and visit his website, fieldcraftsurvival.com.



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0:00.0

Where were you on 9-11?

0:02.1

I was in E-5 in the US Army.

0:06.4

It was my fourth, going on fourth year of the infantry,

0:09.9

and I kind of was transitioning to the guard coming off active duty off of a four or five year

0:16.0

stint and then it happened and then propel me back into the army.

0:20.5

You stayed.

0:21.5

A lot of people stayed in or got in after that.

0:25.0

And then eventually along the way, you could, you did a few things,

0:28.0

there was a path to get there, but Q Force, Army Special Forces, what was that, when you look back on that experience,

0:36.6

what stands out to you and what was it like to get your break?

0:39.9

Because for us it's changed over times and the teams you had to first obviously graduate

0:43.8

buds and then go to your team then go something something called seal

0:46.5

qualification training and back in the day you still didn't have your Trident at that

0:50.4

point then you go to your platoon and in your platoon you'd be on

0:53.5

probation kind of like a cop doing you know out there with somebody that's you know

0:57.8

doing right see left see kind of a kind of a thing evaluating them so you're

1:01.6

evaluated by your platoon as you go through this

1:03.3

first workup and they decide whether you're somebody that they want to go into

1:07.3

combat with and then they give you after a little bit of test, then they give you

1:11.1

your trident and then they pound that thing in different today obviously but

1:15.5

getting the Bray is getting the Bray something similar some like a similar or feeling to that you

1:20.7

think yeah I think so I mean it was it was pretty crazy because right

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