Lesser Known Operators
Hosted by Nicholas Allen · Nicholas Allen
5.0from 85 ratings
- 132
- Episodes
- 123
- Transcribed
- 85
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Lesser Known Operators
Lesser Known Operators is my attempt to sit down and interview as many of the military's Special Operations Forces also known as "Operators" as I possibly can. There are a lot of really great "Operators" out there that no one has ever heard about. I want to go in to their experiences and learn some more about the best there are in our military.
- Publisher
- Nicholas Allen
- Category
- education · government · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 8 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 24 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
123 of 132 episodes have a transcript.
24 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
129 - Alex Dekker, Green Beret, Author: Desert Heist
13 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
128 - Justin Pickering, Green Beret, Author: The Deliberate Mindset
8 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
127 - Marc Fitzwater, Green Beret and Owner of I68 Consulting Group
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129 - Alex Dekker, Green Beret, Author: Desert Heist
Published 24 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Now, a lot of the groups have adopted 12-ish months to let the guys retire. And that's pretty necessary. 12 months will get you kind of where you need to be to transition out. But, you know, that's only a couple of years old. You know, the SFLTAP or the Transition Assistance Program... I know everybody in the group would just blow that off and then just get out. And then this quiet professional mindset of, okay, that's over. Now I need to go do something else. That's very traumatic. You leave the compound, whichever compound you're in, and you're like, I got to go find something different because that's over. […]
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- Alex Dekker
- Justin Pickering
- Roger Vogel
- Christian Irvine
- Aaron Blaine
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 31 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 54 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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