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Shenanigans | One man's journey from Irish Special Forces to a Mogadishu mercenary to U.S. Green Beret

Aug 5, 2022

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Swig - The Most Dangerous Thing I've Ever Doed

01:53

SF Special Operations - You Have to Be Comfortable With Chaos

02:11

Did You Get Selection in O2?

01:45

Introduction

2min

Special Forces - Chuck's Back Story

3min

The Young Man's Struggle to Serve Man

2min

The American Military Is All Behind Close, Right?

3min

What I Learned From the Irish Army Resurros

6min

Swig - The Most Dangerous Thing I've Ever Doed

2min

What Is the Structure of the Irish Army?

3min

SFODA - I'm Going to Do Something a Little Crazy

2min

The Art Training Pipeline OTC

5min

10.

I'll Do It. I'm Fucking Bad Tempest.

3min

11.

Is There a List of This?

5min

12.

Did You Get Selection in O2?

2min

13.

SUT Instructors - The Last Place You Want to Go After the Q-Court Is Fucking Camp McCall, Right?

2min

14.

18 Bravo. What's Your MOS of the Time?

2min

15.

You're Always Wrong When You Shoot a Q Course, Right?

4min

16.

The Q Course on Robin Sage

2min

17.

The Importance of Partnership in the Middle East

2min

18.

SF Special Operations - You Have to Be Comfortable With Chaos

2min

19.

The Iraqi Counter-Terror Force, You Know?

3min

20.

I Was in the ICTF and I Was Deployed in Oh Six in Iraq.

3min

21.

I'm a Team Star, I Want to Come Back After Swick

3min

22.

The Hardest Job in Iraq in 2007 Was Infantry Driving Running Strikers

5min

23.

Swick Orders - You Don't Have the Luxury, Right?

6min

24.

I Wanted to Back to B23, So I Want to Take a SALTOR Team

2min

25.

Oman SAS Officer Corps Training

2min

26.

The Jordanian Base

3min

27.

PLDC - The First Course They Go Through, Right?

4min

28.

Do You Want to Be a Sergeant Major?

2min

29.

SF Command Is the Last Place Soldiers Touch These Programs, Right?

2min

30.

The Obstacle Helmet Was Like a Participation Trophy

4min

31.

What Are the Key Requirements of the Special Forces?

5min

32.

The GMB 1.1 Requires a Chinook, Right?

2min

33.

Is That That a Camera Thing?

2min

34.

I've Been in Afghanistan for a Long Time and I'm a Survivor, Right?

3min

35.

I Have TBI and I'm Putting Work Before My Family

3min

36.

You're Better Than Everybody, Right?

3min

37.

Is There a UAV Navigation Area in the Parking Lot?

2min

38.

What's Your Advice to Students Going Through the Special Forces Qualification Course?

2min

39.

The Q Course Is Awesome, but Don't Be a Jackass and Argu With Instructors

3min

Full Spectrum Special Operations (Special Forces). MSG(R) Kevin Owens takes us through his journey from joining the Irish Army, being in an Irish Counter Terrorist unit, serving as a security contractor in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, joining the U.S. Army, surviving Special Forces selection, combating Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan as a Green Beret, retiring and then his life now running the Field Craft Survival office in North Carolina.

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