Mike Ritland
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855 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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The Shawn Ryan Show · #164 Mike Grover - How Hacking Tools Are Changing Cyber Warfare · 29 Jan 2025
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Whether it's improving the PCB, improving the capabilities, or storing extra components because we're in the middle of a chip shortage so I can still make my stuff. That was a wild time. And it felt like there was just one thing after the other that was like, no, you can't sell these. No, the market's down. No, you can't have access to the chips.
And just trying to find ways of working around that. Down to like... All these little tiny components come in a really long piece of tape coiled up on a reel, right? I count those. I assemble those by myself as well. So, you know, I got machines to count them and assemble them so I can just send it off to the assembler.
There's so many different facets of running a hardware business that is like this that is really unexpected and I'm just kind of learning on the fly. So, yeah.
I mean, I'm all over the place. Definitely on Twitter, underscore MG underscore. Lots of other social networks starting to form and fall apart and whatever they may be. I'll try to keep all of that on the contact page of the o.mg.lol site, though.
Thank you.
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Mic Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland. It's raw.
Mic Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform.
We immediately deployed to Afghanistan. So I was in charge of all of them. As a new guy. And they didn't want to be the guy that failed their mission and got an American killed. Had a catastrophic failure and crashed a $100 million helicopter, MH-47. Our guys didn't even have uniforms. What did you think of working with the SEALs? It was a good run of killing a whole bunch of bad guys.
A week later, Benghazi happens.
The biggest kick in the balls that I've ever had, because, I mean, backing up a little bit, I had the option to reenlist. Obviously, I was on retention's radar for like, hey, this guy's an airborne ranger qualified dude. He's an E-5. I made sergeant when I was 20 years old. And so I was a team leader in the infantry, had good NCOERs.
And so it's like, hey, man, this guy's a good guy we want to keep in the military. But I told them that I want sniper school and I want halo school. in route to 18th Airborne Corps LURS, or Long Range Reconnaissance, or Ranger Battalion. And I was adamant about that. I actually went into a Sergeant Major's office who was the Military District of Washington, so he's a Command Sergeant Major.
He knew my uncle, and he said, Mike, what can I give you to stay in? I said, this is the things that I want. And he goes, which I found out later is true, HALO, or Free Fall School, is not a reenlistment option. And it's not. Back then, you didn't have a lot of incentive for staying in, so they used to give you schools to stay in. And I said, Sergeant Major, well, we can make it an option, right?
Because that's what I want. He's like, Mike, I can't do that for you. I mean, I'll call and I'll try. And he did, but it's not an option. So a CSM even can't make it an option. And so I said, okay, that's, that's my, I gave the options on the table and they decided not to facilitate what I wanted as a dream. And so I decided to get out.
I had a buddy who re-enlisted with me that I went to Ranger school with or re-enlisted without me. And he went to third range battalion. He jumped into Afghanistan on October 19th, 2001. Son of a bitch. Um, and so, The moment it happened, I was actually in college and I had gotten out of the military obviously, but I had transitioned into the National Guard component.
So I'm sitting in a chow hall at Fayetteville Technical Community College getting my associate's degree so I could further my education and saw the events happen, I did some crazy shit, man. I immediately started making phone calls. I went home. I packed a duffel bag of my equipment.
I threw my battle dress uniforms, my camo uniforms in the washer and then dried them and was making calls like, what are we doing here? What's happening? And I was at the time, I was in 30th heavy armor separate brigade and I was in the scout platoon and I was a team leader. So I had a little minuscule position that could affect something, but I knew we were going to war.
So I had a choice to make, which is real easy, which was I'm going back in the fucking military.
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