The First Green Beret in Afghanistan | Justin Sapp (throwback episode)
The Team House
dee takos
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 173 minutes
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Summary
After the 9/11 attacks, small CIA paramilitary teams were secreted into Afghanistan to pave the way for a larger Special Forces deployment. Amongst them was Green Beret Justin Sapp who was the first U.S. Special Forces soldier to infiltrate into Afghanistan.
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| 0:00.0 | Special Operations. |
| 0:05.3 | Covert Ops. |
| 0:08.0 | Espionage. |
| 0:10.0 | The Team House. |
| 0:11.8 | With your hosts, Jack Murphy and David Park. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to The Team House. This is episode 143. I'm Jack. Park. |
| 0:21.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.9 | Welcome to the Team House. |
| 0:24.6 | This is episode 143. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park right over there. |
| 0:32.3 | Our guests tonight in studio, we're very happy to have Justin Sapp here with us today. |
| 0:34.6 | Drove in to Brooklyn. |
| 0:37.0 | I told them we're deep behind enemy lines out here. That's a joke, |
| 0:39.2 | by the way. But Justin, no stranger to any of that. He is the first special forces soldier |
| 0:46.1 | who was inserted into Afghanistan after the 9-11 attacks, detailed with a CIA paramilitary team. |
| 0:53.2 | Those events were detailed in Toby Arden's book, First Casualty. |
| 0:57.9 | We had him here a few months back and interviewed him about the book. But we're really glad to |
| 1:02.9 | have the man himself here in studio tonight. Thank you for joining us, Justin. |
| 1:06.4 | My pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, man. You know, we'll start off where we always start |
| 1:12.2 | off. You know, I want to ask you a little bit about how you grew up and your family background and |
| 1:16.5 | upbringing and sort of the path that took you into military service. Sure. So I grew up. My dad was a CIA |
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