Mike Ritland

What are these guys carrying? Do they have nods to have helmets at this time in the war? No nods. No helmet. We eventually evolved into that but we we were straight ak-47s and flip-flops Man, I mean it was we like our guys didn't even have uniforms. They're rolling around and whatever we can get them I actually

exploited a program that was a nonprofit that was providing clothes and toiletry items to soldiers overseas and got this nonprofit to send me helicopters full of equipment to be able to outfit my Afghans with just clothes, with just toothbrushes, because they didn't have it and we weren't paying for it. So they needed stuff.

exploited a program that was a nonprofit that was providing clothes and toiletry items to soldiers overseas and got this nonprofit to send me helicopters full of equipment to be able to outfit my Afghans with just clothes, with just toothbrushes, because they didn't have it and we weren't paying for it. So they needed stuff.

exploited a program that was a nonprofit that was providing clothes and toiletry items to soldiers overseas and got this nonprofit to send me helicopters full of equipment to be able to outfit my Afghans with just clothes, with just toothbrushes, because they didn't have it and we weren't paying for it. So they needed stuff.

I mean, it's so funny seeing these dudes running around with Harley-Davidson shirts and flannel jackets and USA ball caps, but we had to do what we had to do.

I mean, it's so funny seeing these dudes running around with Harley-Davidson shirts and flannel jackets and USA ball caps, but we had to do what we had to do.

I mean, it's so funny seeing these dudes running around with Harley-Davidson shirts and flannel jackets and USA ball caps, but we had to do what we had to do.

I get back from that deployment and Iraq was getting bad and I wanted to go to school. So I went to put my name in the hat to go to SFARTEC, which is Special Forces Advanced Target Reconnaissance, Target Acquisition, Interdiction, Exploitation, a whole bunch of words and an acronym that doesn't even look right. It's SFARTEC, whatever.

I get back from that deployment and Iraq was getting bad and I wanted to go to school. So I went to put my name in the hat to go to SFARTEC, which is Special Forces Advanced Target Reconnaissance, Target Acquisition, Interdiction, Exploitation, a whole bunch of words and an acronym that doesn't even look right. It's SFARTEC, whatever.

I get back from that deployment and Iraq was getting bad and I wanted to go to school. So I went to put my name in the hat to go to SFARTEC, which is Special Forces Advanced Target Reconnaissance, Target Acquisition, Interdiction, Exploitation, a whole bunch of words and an acronym that doesn't even look right. It's SFARTEC, whatever.

People call it Sephardic, and it's our CQB, Advanced Schoolhouse, for hostage rescue, for direct action, for vehicle interdiction. We learn all that stuff there. It's, I believe, an eight-week school, maybe nine weeks, so it's pretty long. And it is the minimum...

People call it Sephardic, and it's our CQB, Advanced Schoolhouse, for hostage rescue, for direct action, for vehicle interdiction. We learn all that stuff there. It's, I believe, an eight-week school, maybe nine weeks, so it's pretty long. And it is the minimum...

People call it Sephardic, and it's our CQB, Advanced Schoolhouse, for hostage rescue, for direct action, for vehicle interdiction. We learn all that stuff there. It's, I believe, an eight-week school, maybe nine weeks, so it's pretty long. And it is the minimum...

qualification that you need to serve in a commander's and extremist force, which there's one of those per group, which is a reinforced company that's designed to conduct Haas's rescue and crisis response across the world.

qualification that you need to serve in a commander's and extremist force, which there's one of those per group, which is a reinforced company that's designed to conduct Haas's rescue and crisis response across the world.

qualification that you need to serve in a commander's and extremist force, which there's one of those per group, which is a reinforced company that's designed to conduct Haas's rescue and crisis response across the world.

Usually at the team level you learn in so it's called so phallic you learn basic CQB Sometimes it's strong wall. I think at that time it was probably strong wall real basic CQB You don't learn points of domination. You don't learn Haas's rescue considerations Maybe a little bit, but it's not there's not a lot of it. Okay, so I

Usually at the team level you learn in so it's called so phallic you learn basic CQB Sometimes it's strong wall. I think at that time it was probably strong wall real basic CQB You don't learn points of domination. You don't learn Haas's rescue considerations Maybe a little bit, but it's not there's not a lot of it. Okay, so I

Usually at the team level you learn in so it's called so phallic you learn basic CQB Sometimes it's strong wall. I think at that time it was probably strong wall real basic CQB You don't learn points of domination. You don't learn Haas's rescue considerations Maybe a little bit, but it's not there's not a lot of it. Okay, so I

At the basic team level, if you don't have a Sephardic qualified guy, you might not know a lot. You might think you know a lot, but you really don't. And I thought I knew a lot, but I didn't know anything. I showed up and didn't know shit about CQB until I got there. I knew how to shoot. I was a decent shooter with pistol and carbine, but I didn't know much.