"Special Projects" in Special Forces | Randy McElwee | Ep. 390

In this episode of The Team House, we sit down with a former U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) combat medic who also spent time with the 75th Ranger Regiment, tracing his path from enlistment through the SF pipeline and into high-tempo operational assignments. He breaks down the realities of unconventional warfare, battlefield trauma care and medevac under pressure, and lessons learned from deployments and partner-force work (including the Gulf War and training alongside Pakistan’s SSG). We also get into building combatives and medical training programs, leadership on an ODA, and how 9/11 reshaped the mission and the generation that followed.
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09:15 — Choosing Combat Medic Over Comms
33:50 — Q Course Graduation & Desert Team Assignment
50:21 — Operation Salam: Mine Strike & Emergency Care
54:43 — UW Reality Check: Tribal Politics & Taliban Ties
1:02:20 — Gulf War Deployment: CAS Teams in Saudi Arabia
1:07:34 — Friendly-Fire Risks, Lock-Ons & Breaching Minefields
1:23:29 — Training with Pakistan SSG at Cherat
1:40:44 — Building Ranger Downed-Pilot / Trauma Rotations
1:46:38 — Life in Ranger Regiment Without a Tab
2:04:52 — Taking Command of an ODA & Raising Standards
2:13:01 — Combatives Program → Gracie Week → 9/11 Shock
2:22:41 — Transition to UGA: Training the Post-9/11 Generation

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