Special Ops Contractor Training Afghan Partners | Joan Barker | Ep. 168

Oct 12, 2022

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PTSD - What's Going on in the United States?

PTSD and PTSD Treatment

What Did You Learn When You Were in Nigeria?

What Was It Like Studying Hausa and Relearning the MSA?

What's That Out There?

Do You Know if I Get Bited by a Dog? Or Am I Going to End Up in a Mud Hut?

I'm Not a Doctor, but You Can Fix It, Right?

Is It Worth Culture Shock?

The Culture Shock

Volunteers in Cross Cultures Training

Do You Have a Peace Corps Assignment?

Is There a Monolith?

The Next Stop Stop After the Peace Corps

The DLI American Language Center in San Antonio, Texas

What I Learned in Dubai and the UAE

The Pirate History Podcast

What Was It Like to Work for a New School?

The AFFPAC Hands Program

What I Learned From Marsak, I'm a Marine Infantryman and I've Always Wanted to Be an Operator in the Marines

I'm Going to Piss Off the Navy Seal, Right?

Language and Culture

The Key Elements of Training - Trust

Was There a Transition Period for You?

I'm Not Here for That. That's Their World

I'm Not the Savior Here, Right?

Peace Corps - The Invisible Buffer

The Bus Hosting Story

The Road Rage in Ghana

I Don't Want My Parents to Know That I'm on Vacation

I Don't Know What's Going on Here

01:00:39 • 2min

Is That You Got Away From Me?

01:02:27 • 2min

It's Just Like Road Rage, You Know?

01:04:03 • 2min

How Did You End Up Working With the Afghanistan Air Wing?

01:05:38 • 2min

CRC Is Just a Memoir

01:07:26 • 2min

A Brief Overview of Afghan Air Force Training Programs

01:09:04 • 2min

Affid - The SME's in Afghanistan and Iraq

01:10:40 • 2min

I'm Going to Roll My Eyes

01:12:18 • 2min

Why Are We Bringing in This New Shiny Toy?

01:13:50 • 2min

Do You Really Want to Be a Veteran?

01:16:20 • 2min

You're Invited to John's Christmas Party

01:17:53 • 2min

The SMW Flight Line

01:19:32 • 4min

The American Air Force and the Afghan Air Force

01:23:40 • 2min

The SMW and the American Huey Pilot and the Afghan Colonel

01:25:25 • 3min

I'm Like Hey Man Can Anybody Help This Guy Get His Tank Refilled?

01:28:31 • 2min

Is It a Sham That You Lost Your Contract With the AAF?

01:30:05 • 2min

Afghan Air Force Program Managers - What Was Your Impression Over Afghanistan?

01:32:06 • 2min

Is It a Good Idea to Train Afghan Pilots in the US?

01:33:40 • 2min

The Fall of Kabul

01:35:55 • 2min

Is the US Going to Send You to the Airport?

01:37:50 • 5min

What Is the Afghan Adjustment Act?

01:42:39 • 3min

The Afghan Adjustment Act's Pass

01:45:51 • 2min

How I Got Pulled in as an English Teacher and I Was Like I Don't Have Any Like I'm Not Friends With Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division

01:47:59 • 3min

The Afghans Don't Want to Fight We Need to Tell Them the Truth

01:50:51 • 2min

The Afghans Don't Care to Stand by Us and We Need to Do Right by Them

01:53:09 • 2min

What's Moral Injury?

01:54:52 • 2min

What Is Moral Injury?

01:57:20 • 4min

The History of the Great War Podcast

02:01:49 • 6min

War Strategy in Afghanistan

02:07:43 • 2min

The Sadder Narrative Is That We Can Do It All Over Again

02:09:29 • 2min

Refugee Resettlement in the United States

02:11:12 • 2min

Volunteering for the Afghan Adjustment Act

02:13:22 • 2min

Is There an Effort to Ensure Afghan Parolees Are Extended and Identify Accessible Visa Options?

02:15:26 • 3min

Afghanistan Refugee Resettlement Agency

02:18:05 • 2min

Afghan Special Immigration Visa Interpreters and Moral Injuries

02:19:37 • 2min

Uh John Fox and Uh Baz Doctor Baz on the Show on Friday and I Hope to See Some of You Guys There

02:21:38 • 2min

Joan Barker is a consultant specializing in military language and culture training. She has worked on educational contracts for U.S. Special Operations Command and overseas as a trainer with partner forces in the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan. From 2017 to 2018 she worked on a defense contract in Kabul teaching English to members of the Afghan air force and Special Mission Wing (SMW). After the fall of Kabul, Barker spent months advocating for the evacuation of Special Immigrant Visa interpreters, as well as vulnerable members of the SMW. She also worked to highlight the issue of moral injury affecting veterans of the war in Afghanistan. This spring, she taught English to Afghan refugees that processed through Fort McCoy, Wis., as part of Operation Allies Welcome. Check out Joan here:👇 https://linktr.ee/joan.e.barker Follow Joan on Twitter:👇 https://twitter.com/jb__tweets?s=21&t=IvfzY7kNSMoZVryCZd_SdA To help support the show and for all bonus content including: -2 bonus episodes per month -Access to ALL bonus segments with our guests -Ad Free audio feed Subscribe to our Patreon! 👇 https://www.patreon.com/TheTeamHouse Team House merch: https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10474963 Social Media: The Team House Instagram: https://instagram.com/the.team.house?utm_medium=copy_link The Team House Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTeamHousePod Jack’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/jackmcmurph?utm_medium=copy_link Jack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackmurphyrgr?s=21 Dave’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dave_parke?s=21 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 Want to sponsor the show? Email: 👇 theteamhousepodcast@gmail.com #specialoperations #contractor

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