John A. Dailey is a USMC MARSOC Instructor that's trained hundreds of Marine Raiders across his over 20 years in the military. An early Force Reconnaissance Sniper, John witnessed the 9/11 attacks from a pub in Australia before getting shipped out to Afghanistan to help kick off the War on Terror. Later, he'd serve alongside his fellow 'tough rugged bastards' as a team leader at Detachment-1 in 2004, hunting insurgents, bomb-makers, and other HVT's in what would lead to the formation of the Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC). in 2008 he retired, taking a job that has him still training Raiders while penning his memoir 'Tough Rugged Bastards: A Memoir of a Life in Marine Special Operations'.
So what did the Raiders originally look like back when John joined Detachment-1? How has MARSOC changed since then, and what's really the difference between Marine Raiders and SEAL Teams? And as the titular tough rugged bastard, do you have to be hard-wired to be a hard man, or can you learn to be truly tough? Let's ask John.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
14:02 - Up at 4:30
16:38 - Growing Up in Virginia
21:35 - '87 Boot Camp - From Infantry to Force Recon
32:18 - Seeing Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' at the Berlin Wall
37:51 - Welcome to Force Recon
42:09 - From Australia to Afghanistan on September 11th, 2001
56:06 - Keeping An Eye o n John Walker Lindh
59:30 - Weaving MARSOC into SOCOM
01:03:43 - The First Deployment as a MARSOC Raider with DET 1
01:14:15 - High-Value Target Missions
01:25:42 - SEALS, MARSOC, and SOF Snipers in the Battle of Najaf
01:40:46 - Transitioning Out of Combat
01:43:40 - Training the Future of MARSOC
01:54:03 - MARSOC's Most Memorable Missions
01:56:04 - Writing the Book 'Tough Rugged Bastards'
02:09:47 - FOMO and the Parachute Story
02:18:09 - Questions from Patreon
02:22:44 - What's Next?
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