Retired Army Sergeant Major and Green Beret Terry Wilson spent 24 years in uniform with the 7th Special Forces Group, racking up 11 combat deployments and nearly 11 years total downrange. He is now the CEO of Tactical Edge Coaching and Consulting, where he works with high performance men to become better leaders in all aspects of their life.
In this episode we get into the daily troops in contact grind of Helmand Province, watching a Chinook get blown out of the sky a couple hundred meters away, recovering bodies from the crash site through the night, losing a teammate to an IED within days, the brutal reality of the Afghanistan withdrawal, and hitting rock bottom after losing his son before faith and fitness gave him a way back.
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Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:28 - Guest Introduction
00:02:28 - Last Book Read
00:03:04 - Controlling Anger
00:04:11 - Time Travel Wish
00:05:09 - EDC & Firearms
00:06:21 - Childhood Overview
00:08:39 - Parents & Upbringing
00:10:36 - Juvenile Crimes
00:13:25 - Meeting Wife
00:13:49 - Joining Army
00:17:48 - First Job as MP
00:19:53 - SF Selection
00:24:58 - First Duty Station
00:26:06 - Helmand Province
00:30:28 - Ad Break
00:31:31 - First Deployment
00:32:43 - Sister ODA Losses
00:37:47 - Chinook Down
00:40:37 - Mitch Young IED
00:46:03 - Ad Break
00:47:41 - Prison Raid
00:49:50 - Afghan Commandos
00:59:21 - Ad Break
01:01:05 - Honduras Deployment
01:02:36 - Schools & Sniper
01:09:29 - Chinook Memory
01:09:52 - Ad Break
01:11:18 - Crash Site Recovery
01:20:30 - Ad Break
01:22:59 - Processing Grief
01:27:42 - Son's Death
01:30:09 - Ad Break
01:32:30 - Floodgates Open
01:40:23 - Faith Journey
01:48:09 - Marriage Repair
01:52:18 - Free Will & God
02:00:57 - Tactical Edge Coaching
02:06:10 - Venezuela Operation
02:19:52 - Iran Concerns
02:21:53 - Martyrdom Ideology
02:26:16 - Refugee Impact
02:28:16 - Greenland Hypothetical
02:34:17 - Closing Remarks
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