U.S. Army Sniper, Googan Squad & Lunkers TV - Robert Terkla | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 104
Mike Drop
Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of Mike Drop, Robert Terkla shares stories from his time serving as a sniper in the U.S. Army attached to SEAL Team 3. Terkla is now a professional fisherman, successful businessman and powerhouse YouTuber @Lunkers TV and @Googan Squad.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:43 - Lightning Round
7:34 - Childhood
13:51 - Joining The Military
18:48 - Becoming an Army Sniper
22:01 - Deployment
25:49 - Gear
30:00 - 50 Cal Story
33:50 - When You Gotta Go
39:50 - Bodybags
44:05 - Firefights
57:40 - Drug and Gun Routes
1:01:04 - Engagements
1:11:15 - Leadership Decisions
1:22:57 - Turnover
1:29:19 - Back From Deployment
1:31:22 - Selection
1:33:57 - Got Out / Transition
1:38:36 - Businesses
1:40:27 - Lunkers TV & Googan Squad
1:54:44 - Moving Forward In Business
2:01:18 - The Hat
Support: Robert Terkla
Website: https://googansquad.com/
YouTube: @Lunkers TV - https://www.youtube.com/c/LunkersTV
YouTube: @Googan Squad - https://www.youtube.com/c/GooganSquad
Instagram: @robterkla - https://www.instagram.com/robterkla/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, we came through this. |
| 0:03.1 | It's really narrow choke point and it was in late February so everything was frozen |
| 0:09.0 | and we're in the Hennu Kush so everything's fucking frozen as shit. |
| 0:11.9 | We're driving on side by sides and then this is later on the day so the day thaws out. |
| 0:15.8 | All the ground starts thawing out. |
| 0:17.6 | You fucking afghan SF guys and they're fucking truck. |
| 0:21.5 | They're all loaded down heaviest shit. |
| 0:23.5 | Drive through that same choke point and set off an absolutely fucking massive IED. |
| 0:29.6 | Blue all of them up the shit all on the side of the hill they're spread out. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm like thinking to myself like what the fuck is going on? |
| 0:35.8 | I have guys shooting me from this side. |
| 0:38.0 | These guys just blew up over here. |
| 0:39.5 | I didn't really like I was trying to like you know what I mean like your very first time. |
| 0:43.2 | What the fuck is going and Pat hit me so hard in the back of my head like knocks some |
| 0:47.8 | fucking sense he says shoot motherfucker and he hit me so fucking hard. |
| 0:51.2 | I was like oh god what I got to do I got to okay I said I grabbed my greatest I started |
| 0:55.8 | to engage in the guy and that was that was that. |
| 0:59.7 | I seen another gentleman coming through and he was running all black. |
| 1:02.3 | We had rangers in entire area and he was 1170 out of you came peeling through and he |
| 1:07.1 | was going directly towards the guys we could not fucking talk to and I remember I stood |
| 1:10.7 | up and fucking I was never people say one shot one kill bullshit that's not real. |
| 1:15.0 | It's one shot good correction keep sending. |
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