Bud Gibson

MACV-SOG/FORCE RECON Researcher- Producer of The Reconnaissance Cast
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Jim Bolen was a highly decorated Special Forces Green Beret who served with the highly classified Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) during the Vietnam War. He led over 40 dangerous, top-secret missions into Laos and Cambodia, primarily targeting the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Sihanouk Trail.Bolen's expertise included infiltration, intelligence gathering, and prisoner snatch operations, often under heavy enemy fire

New Interview with Jim -https://t.co/Ji3l0XtLUr

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@PitaFajita1775 I think I know if what you speak lol ☠️🤯

D is a helluva dude! Super small world

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Got Dagan “Hoot” Van Oosten joining us at 10 Am this morning

- Today we have a man who joined the United States Marine Corps on the delayed entry program in 1997. He has spent time with the 1st Fleet AntiTerrorism Security Team, 5th Marines, the USMC Marine Augmentation Training Support Unit, and the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion. During his time with the Marines he has been a Scout/Sniper Instructor, Chief Scout, and Liasion and Chief Instructor for the FBI HRT Sniper course. This guest has also worked with contracting companies like BlackWater and even worked with the CIA for 12 years. He has deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and Bahrain. He is currently the Co Owner of Nomadic Research, an outdoor company that values Patriotism, Individual Responsibility, and the Love of Freedom of the Great Outdoors. My guest is also the Founder and Owner of Ten22Fifty Inc, which provides Tactical and Security Based Consultation to the US Government, DOD, and Law Enforcement. This is our guest , Dagan "Hoot" Van Oosten.

Interview- https://t.co/4ZjvNzzrOs

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U.S. Navy SEALS rappel down from a U.S. Army Bell UH-1B Iroquois helicopter during an insertion in Southern Vietnam in 1967.

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Live now

MARINE SCOUT SNIPER & FBI HRT instructor - Dagan Van Oosten - https://t.co/CBeR7jZxNO via @YouTube

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Part two will be NOTHING BUT FORCE RECONN& MARSOC deployments

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Kick off with a GWOT stud here shortly
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2nd Force Recon & Marine Special Operations Battalion (MARSOC) VET - Chr... https://t.co/K1ZWs4y9ST via @YouTube

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@Thereactionary5 @AppleTV It’s a jocko commercial lol

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@elie_foube16925 @YouTube Oh for a FAC BIRD there wasn’t a better scheme available ⚔️⚡️

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Flying FAC on SOG's FINAL HALO MISSION - Paul Curs https://t.co/CpnAIaSGp3 via @YouTube

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@RushmoreDe58881 Absolutely!!!

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Project Delta brothers- Steve and Derrick Carpenter on the launch pad at Mai Loc after Steve’s recon op

PC- https://t.co/ga9oLKZJ9r

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Promu major à titre posthume, Arnaud Frion, opérateur chevronné du groupement de commandos de montagne (GCM), a été mortellement blessé le 12 mars 2026 à Erbil, en Irak, lors d’une attaque de drone attribuée à l’Iran.

En 2011, pris sous le feu ennemi, il identifie l’origine des tirs et conduit la riposte en s’exposant directement au danger. Son action décisive permet de réduire la menace et de préserver la vie des soldats engagés. Il est alors cité à l’ordre du régiment.

Au cours de sa carrière, il participe également au sauvetage et à l’évacuation des forces spéciales américaines prises dans l’embuscade meurtrière de Tongo Tongo, au Niger, en octobre 2017, contribuant à sauver des vies sous le feu ennemi.

Déployé dans le cadre de l’opération Barkhane en 2019 puis en 2020, il reçoit deux nouvelles citations. Cité à quatre reprises pour acte de bravoure, il se voit décerner la Médaille militaire le 31 décembre 2021.

Déployé en Irak depuis le 24 janvier 2026, il y accomplit sa mission jusqu’à cette attaque qui lui sera fatale.

Marié et père d’un enfant, Arnaud Frion laisse le souvenir d’un chef exemplaire, engagé jusqu’au bout, respecté de ses hommes et estimé de tous.

Son courage, son engagement et son sacrifice ne seront jamais oubliés.

Ne jamais oublier. 🖤

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@michaeldineen58 @YouTube The one and only ⚔️⚡️

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1st MACVSOG OP from FOB2 with Pat Watkins https://t.co/vzGzw6MYgL via @YouTube

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@michaeldineen58 @TraeyzX I got damn close!! Only thing that saved me was I was a snorter back in my younger days and I’m literally terrified of needles lol… So glad you got away from that loaded gun safely!! It’s a terrible way to go through life

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@terryschappert This is EPIC!!!!

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@michaeldineen58 @TraeyzX When I broke my hip and legs I was eating morphine by the handful!!! Shits a dead end road and you get there QUICK

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heavily laden member of Co 'B', 2nd Royal Australian Regiment, crosses a ditch during a search and clear operation.

Photo taken: August 1970 by PFC Laszlo Kondor.

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@LoudOutside Nah she lost the plot here

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General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière KCB KBE DSO MC & Bar DL

On 6 October 1990, a soldier who had joined the British Army as a private thirty-eight years earlier landed in Riyadh to take command of every British serviceman in the Middle East. Lieutenant-General Sir Peter de la Billière inherited a force that was still building, and would become Britain's largest deployment since the Second World War, and with it the task of making British arms count inside an American-led coalition under General Norman Schwarzkopf. It completed one of the most improbable rises in the modern Army. Born in Plymouth on 29 April 1934, he had lost his father, a naval surgeon, when HMS Fiji was sunk by German bombers off Crete in May 1941; he enlisted in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry as a private in 1952, was commissioned into the Durham Light Infantry in 1955, and joined the Special Air Service the following year. What followed was three decades of undeclared wars: Malaya, where he was mentioned in despatches; Oman in 1959, where he led a troop in the assault on the Jebel Akhdar and won the Military Cross; the Radfan and Borneo from 1964 to 1966, which brought the Bar to the MC; and Dhofar in the early 1970s, for which he was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order. He commanded 22 SAS from 1972 to 1974, and from 1979 to 1983 he commanded the SAS Group, the officer in overall command in May 1980 when the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy at Princes Gate.

The Gulf command tested everything those small wars had taught him. As Commander British Forces Middle East he was Schwarzkopf's British counterpart, and he forged the close working relationship with the American commander on which the British contribution depended. He deployed his old regiment deep into western Iraq in patrols hunting the Scud launchers that were threatening Israel and the coalition, and when the ground offensive began on 24 February 1991 his forces formed part of the coalition's great "left hook" through the Iraqi desert. The 1st Armoured Division under Major General Rupert Smith passed through the minefield breach cut by the Americans and, in a hundred hours of fighting, covered 170 miles and took the surrender of thousands of Iraqi troops, in the largest British armoured operation since the Second World War. Kuwait was liberated and the ceasefire came on 28 February; 47 British servicemen had been killed. De la Billière's war had been the headquarters' war, the briefings and the coalition politics, and he had played it as a soldier who had spent his career on the other side of such rooms, in the deserts where the plans met the enemy.

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, promoted to full general, and made a special adviser to the Ministry of Defence on Middle East affairs before retiring in June 1992 after forty years in uniform. In 1992 he published Storm Command, his personal account of the Gulf War, and in 1994 Looking for Trouble, his autobiography; both were bestsellers, though his willingness to write about special forces drew sharp criticism from within the regiment he had once commanded. His documented contribution is the arc itself: a private soldier who won gallantry medals across three decades of the Empire's last small wars, and who rose to command Britain's last victorious large-scale conventional campaign, becoming the public face of a war that was fought by a coalition, won in a hundred hours, and ended with its objectives intact. Few careers have spanned the full distance between the troop commander on the Jebel Akhdar and the general who sat beside Schwarzkopf in Riyadh, and that distance is the measure of him.