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SOFREP Radio

Special operations military news and straight talk with the guys in the community. Hosted by former military operators. As seen ranked #1 in Apple Podcasts government category.

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58:18

Pete Hegseth, Fox & Friends Co-host, Author, and Veteran

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2021/05/24

On this week's podcast SOFREP Senior Editor and SOFREP Radio host, Steve Balestrieri is joined by Fox & Friends co-host, author, and veteran Pete Hegseth.In a wide-ranging discussion, Pete talks about his path to journalism and his subsequent interactions with his former teammates. They also discuss Pete's political plans, his books In the Arena and American Crusade, and his adventurous swim across the Hudson River with 30 Navy SEALs.The two also touch upon America's foreign policy and the need

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58:08

Jonathan Hancock, Creator of "Bastards' Road" and...

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2021/05/21

On this week's podcast SOFREP Senior Editor and SOFREP Radio host, Steve Balestrieri talks with Jonathan Hancock a Marine veteran from 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment – The Magnificent Bastards – who walked 5,800 miles across the United States to visit fellow Marines and Gold Star families in a journey of healing.Jon's trek across the country and his interactions with the veterans, Marines, and Gold Star families was filmed, at first by himself and then by filmmaker Brian Morrison who joined him

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50:35

Michelle Black, Author of "Sacrifice, A Gold Star...

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2021/05/09

On this week's podcast SOFREP Senior Editor and SOFREP Radio host, Steve Balestrieri sits down with Michelle Black the author of Sacrifice, A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth.Michelle Black's husband, Bryan, was a Green Beret and one of four American soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger in October 2017 by ISIS terrorists.Steve and Michelle talk about her husband's life, the events leading up to the ambush, its aftermath, and the investigation surrounding it.Michelle and the families of the

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49:52

"Reveal, the Hunt for Bin Laden" Debuts on Discovery...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/05/02

In this special episode of SOFREP Radio, SOFREP Senior Editor Host Steve Balestrieri speaks with Clifford Chanin the Executive Vice President and Deputy Director for Museum Programs of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. They talk about the museum's collaboration with Discovery Channel on the upcoming documentary Revealed, The Hunt For Bin Laden.The show follows the 10-year effort to find Osama bin Laden. In cooperation with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s access to American intelligence and military

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125:45

Special Forces Legend, Rick Lamb

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/04/23

In this week's episode of SOFREP Radio, Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri talks with Rick Lamb. The word "Legend" gets thrown around a lot but in Mr. Lamb's case, it is entirely apt. He joined the Army in 1978 under contract to become an Airborne Ranger directly and over the next 26 years, Rick served in both the 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions, the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 10th Special Forces Group, retiring as a Command Sergeant Major.He also seemed to be a part of every significant combat operation of the

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65:43

Dennis J. Blasko, Expert on China

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2021/04/09

In this episode, Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri joins our resident expert on the Chinese Army, Mr. Dennis J. Blasko.Dennis served 23 years in military intelligence and as a Foreign Area Officer He served in infantry units in Germany, Italy, and Korea and in Washington at the Defense Intelligence Agency, From 1992 to 1996 he was an Army Attaché in Beijing and Hong Kong. Mr. Blasko is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of numerous

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63:16

Brad Thomas, Ranger, Delta Force and Heavy Metal

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/04/02

Brad was with the Ranger Battalion at the Battle of Mogadishu in October 1993 and went on to spend 12 years with Delta Force. Now retired, he's killing it music with a band of veteran musicians made up of veterans, "Silence & Light." Brad is an accomplished guitar player and composer. These guys are putting out albums and donating the proceeds to veteran's charities too.Brad and his brother veterans are still serving and now SOFREP Radio has the pleasure of serving Brad and his story up to

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44:51

Dr. Chloe Carmichael, Author of 'Nervous Energy'

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2021/03/26

This week on SOFREP Radio, we welcome Dr. Chloe Carmichael, author of Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety.All of us are familiar with the feeling of anxiety, but we typically see it as something bad, something to be avoided. But not Dr. Chloe. She believes that the first zing of anxiety is actually a biological gift passed to us from our early ancestors. The jolt of anxiety is actually energy, kind of like the kick from a turbo charger. By harnessing that energy, we can push past the

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54:14

James Rosone, Air Force Interrogator, DoD Contractor...

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2021/03/19

This week on SOFREP Radio we welcome former Air Force interrogator and prolific author James Rosone.Rosone served six years in the Wisconsin Army National Guard as a member of the 1/126th Field Artillery Battalion. He left the National Guard in 2002 to pursue a career in the Air Force. It was during his time in the Air Force that I deployed to Iraq for the first time. Rosone served nearly three and a half years in Iraq both as a military member and then as Department of Defense and Department of

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52:05

Gary Powers Jr., Son of the U-2 Spy Plane Pilot and...

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2021/03/12

This week on SOFREP Radio, we are pleased to welcome Gary Powers Jr.Gary Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Spy Plane pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 during a reconnaissance mission. Growing up, Gary never really knew the historical importance of the U-2 Incident or what his father really did. It wasn't until his death in 1977 that Gary started to untangle the myths from the truth and learn about his father's military history.In this scintillating episode, Gary

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85:06

Jack Devine, 32-Year CIA Veteran and Author of...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/03/05

This week, we are excited to welcome Jack Devine back to SOFREP Radio.With a career in the CIA that spanned more than three decades, Devine knows more about the American intelligence apparatus than most today. From the Iran-Contra affair and undermining the Russians in Afghanistan to serving as CIA’S acting director of operations and associate director of operations in the mid-1990s, Devine is a spy’s spy.Since his first appearance on SOFREP Radio in 2017, Devine has been hard at work. He brings to

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63:19

Sean "Buck" Rogers, Former Green Beret and Author of...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/02/26

This week on SOFREP Radio we welcome former Special Forces Green Beret Sean "Buck" Rogers.Sean Rogers join the military at the age of twenty-one. After a serious injury during Ranger selection, he changed course and went on to Special Forces. As a Green Beret he served two combat deployments to Afghanistan. When his military service was complete, he returned to serve his community as a member of the Denver Police Department. Always challenging himself, Sean earned a master's degree and committed

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48:10

Jessica Donati, Wall Street Journal Reporter and...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/02/19

This week on SOFREP Radio we are thrilled to welcome Jessica Donati.Donati covers foreign affairs for The Wall Street Journal in Washington DC, and has reported from over a dozen countries in the role. She joined the paper as the bureau chief in Kabul in 2015, and lived in Afghanistan for over four years.Previously, she worked for Reuters in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, covering both the conflicts in Libya and Afghanistan. Her work on a series on the war in Libya was chosen as a finalist for

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54:36

Former Navy SEAL Team Two Commander and Author Mike...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/02/12

This week on SOFREP Radio, we're proud to host Mike Hayes, former Navy SEAL and commander of SEAL Team Two.Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He’s jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate’s leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He’s written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his

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Col. Michael Leonard, USAF Pilot and Author of 'An...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/02/05

This week on SOFREP Radio we're excited to welcome our guest, Col. Michael Leonard (ret.), US Air Force pilot and author of the new book An American Combat Bird Dog Pilot: From the Battlefield of Vietnam and Beyond.In this exclusive interview with Leonard, we get a first hand account of his adventures, from his days before the military right on through to his years as an executive working for companies like the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation and Lockheed-Martin.Of note is Leonard's

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68:02

The Secret CIA Mission to Hunt Down bin Laden With...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/01/29

In this exclusive interview, Alec and Mark — alongside Michael Marks, who captured their story — pull back the cloak on the origins of the operation to build, test and field the first Predator drone and recall what it was like to view, for the first time, a live feed of a target area through the eyes of a UAV.Not only did the pair lead the clandestine mission, they actually put eyes on Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan — through the Predator — before the 9/11 attacks. After 39 months of back and forth

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48:12

Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/01/22

This week on SOFREP it is our esteemed honor to host Sergeant Major of the Army Michael A. Grinston.For the uninitiated, the sergeant major of the Army is the most senior enlisted member in the United States Army and reports directly to the Army Chief of Staff.As the sergeant major of the Army, Grinston is the Army chief of staff's personal adviser on matters affecting the enlisted force. He devotes the majority of his time traveling throughout the Army to observe training and interact with Soldiers

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49:18

Jacob Sotak, SOFREP Editor in Chief

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/01/15

Jacob is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan in the early 2000's as part of a Civil Affairs team. After his service, which included a stint at the Presidio of Monterey Defense Language Institute where he studied Arabic, Jacob relocated to New York City. In New York he worked for the New York Times and several other companies before joining forces with SOFREP as Editor in Chief.In this sit down with Jacob, we hear some stories from OEF and how he came to lead the team at SOFREP. Moreover,

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67:53

Editor's Round Table Featuring Steve Balestrieri,...

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/01/08

This week on SOFREP Radio we decided to shake things up a bit. While we had a standard-issue podcast lined up for you, we thought we would take a moment to discuss the events that unfolded in Washington D.C. on January 6th — and the aftermath — in a segment we're calling Editor's Round Table.SOFREP contributor Sean Spoonts, Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri and Editor in Chief Jacob Sotak dive into the protest-turned-insurrection and try to answer some of the questions banging around the internal

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55:51

Delta Force CSM Tom Satterly (Retired) and Jen Satterly

SOFREP Radio ·

2021/01/01

We are honored to host Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Tom Satterly and his wife Jen in this very special episode of SOFREP Radio, and the first of the new year.Tom served in the United States Army for twenty five years. Not long after joining the Army in 1986, he passed the Special Forces Q Course and became a Green Beret. By 1991, Tom had moved to Delta Force where he served for the next 20 years deploying on countless missions across the globe.Most notably, Tom served in Somalia and fought in

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