Vagabonds: two Special Forces soldiers adventures as "security advisors," Ep. 92

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

1978—a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents. Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and intelligence community veterans like Penguini, Max, Reek, The Spider Woman and a score of others—some heroes and some villains—they undertake a variety of missions for the government, other governments, large multinational corporations mostly in the aerospace or resource development industries, and occasionally just for suffering individuals who cannot find help anywhere else. In the process they lay the groundwork for an entire new industry of private military contractors. Two men sadly just a bit ahead of their time. Every episode in this book actually happened. Not always precisely as described herein, but close. Changes have been made sometimes to make the narrative flow more smoothly, some to obfuscate events that might be flirting with classification issues… Names have been changed, not always to protect the innocent. But the underlying story is, for the most part, the reality as they lived it. Get Vagabonds here: https://www.amazon.com/Vagabonds-Tourists-Darkness-Nick-Brokhausen/dp/1612009956 Get access to bonus segments with our guests: https://www.patreon.com/m/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Team House Discord: https://discord.gg/wHFHYM6 SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTeamHouse/ Jack Murphy's memoir "Murphy's Law" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Murphys-Law-Journey-Investigative-Journalist/dp/1501191241 The Team Room Reading Room (Amazon Affiliate links): https://jackmurphywrites.com/the-team-room-reading-room/ Intro music by https://www.youtube.com/user/RemixSample

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0:48.1	Special operations.
0:52.4	Covert Ops. Espionage. The Team House. With your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park.
1:07.0	All right, here we are guys.
1:11.0	This is episode 92. I'm Jack Murphy here with Dave Park. This is the team house. This is Jeff Miller and Nick Brockhausen on the show tonight.
1:23.6	We had Nick on the show once before.
1:25.9	He's the author of Whisper's in the Tallgrass
1:29.4	and We Few.
1:30.9	It was episode 76. You should check it out.
1:33.5	Good call. Yeah, you guys should go and check it out if you haven't already.
1:36.5	We talked about his time in Vietnam with Mac V. Sog. And now we have Nick and Jeff back on the show to talk about their friendship and their business partnership after their special forces service and how they met their entry into the private security world
1:56.1	which was nothing at all like it is today is very different in its sort of embryonic state
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