The Few, The Proud, The Marines

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This episode features a conversation from Will's "Elite Warrior Series," where he spoke to the most elite members of the U.S. military to find out what motivates them, what makes them tick, and what drives them to the highest levels of human performance. Today, Will revisits his conversation with U.S. Marine Corps MARSOC Operator Nick Koumalatsos. Representing the Marine Raiders, one of the newest units within SOCOM (United States Special Operations Command), Koumalatsos breaks down the history of the unit, how they formed out of an already elite branch, and what makes Marine Raiders unique from other units. Tell Will what you thought of this conversation at [email protected] Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey what's up it's Will Cain and today we have a very special episode of The Will
0:15.6	Cain Podcast another edition in our series on America's modern elite badass warriors.
0:22.8	Today we learned about marine raiders.
0:26.9	Kumalatsos was a marine reconnaissance and special operation command warrior Marsoc later known as
0:34.6	marine raiders. For most of their history the Marines considered themselves elite the entirety
0:41.4	was special and therefore why do you need a special elite unit. The entirety of the Marines
0:47.8	is a special elite unit but in the mid-2000s as modern warfare evolved into surgical strikes
0:54.8	and special operation command took in the seals and the green berets the Marines needed to have
1:01.9	a voice in the room and so they developed out of force recon Marsoc who then later took a name
1:09.5	from their history the marine raider Nick Kumalatsos was a marine raider and he has not just great
1:17.0	understanding of what that modern warrior and how that modern warrior is defined but of the entirety.
1:24.8	Of the structure of joint special operations command and special operations command he can give
1:29.8	us insight into the Marines the military special warriors and specifically the marine raider here is
1:37.8	Nick Kumalatsos all right Nick Kumalatsos you are here to teach me why the marine raider the marine
1:45.8	recon is a bigger badass than the navy seal than the green beret in truth what I really want to know
1:52.7	where I want to start Nick is what makes and let's focus on the marine raider what makes the marine
1:58.8	raider unique I think at least in their original conception each of these special operator units
2:05.4	had a defined purpose the navy seals were somewhat tailored to being an amphibious landing
2:13.0	organization that green beret was deep behind enemy lines training up allied forces what is it
2:20.4	that is unique or special about the marine raider you know you look at like you great opening right
2:27.8	like you just you just laid it out like what the navy seals really is are really good at what the
2:33.7	army is doing you look at the navy seals now they are really really focused on direct action
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