How a SEAL Team 6/DEVGRU Operator joined DELTA Force

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  • @musketballmatt6773
    @musketballmatt6773 Год назад +1305

    Get this guy on the Shawn Ryan show

  • @WayneB-
    @WayneB- Год назад +221

    Kevin is one of the most humble and down to earth guys you will ever meet! When he introduced himself to our group he just said he was in the Army. Quite the understatement.

  • @dionthomas5418
    @dionthomas5418 Год назад +358

    This guy served in both Delta Force and Seal Team Six is a true legit badass Special Forces warrior showing no fear of the enemies of freedom and America

    • @adriandarcy-taylor6429
      @adriandarcy-taylor6429 Год назад +30

      That buys some serious bragging rights, but he couldn't be more humble and self-deprecating.
      I take my hat off to you sir.

    • @Choppy247
      @Choppy247 Год назад

      Becuz killing people under the banner of ‘merica’ automatically means one is fighting for freedom. Sure guy

    • @HC-wo2tz
      @HC-wo2tz Год назад +18

      Lol, "enemies of freedom and America". You sound like a high school senior on his way to boot camp with no knowledge of geopolitics.

    • @markbeames7852
      @markbeames7852 Год назад +4

      @@HC-wo2tz what unit were you with, and when?

    • @HC-wo2tz
      @HC-wo2tz Год назад +4

      @@markbeames7852 I have extensive combat experience in the Middle East, Europe, and the Pacific. Mostly in the online/virtual world. I was in a variety of units, but I swear to you, not once did I use the N-word on any online comrade slowing us down, or enemy players.
      In all seriousness though, if you're going to take the path of military service as some gotcha, try again. JIngoism isn't a good look.

  • @protoclown4717
    @protoclown4717 10 месяцев назад +13

    This guy is like an unrealistic character created for an Expendables movie. This is so incredible - I don't know how a movie hasn't been made about him.

  • @WarInHD
    @WarInHD Год назад +288

    He’s a stud, right before he retired he got to run a mission with his own son who’s in the 75th Ranger Regiment

    • @777repentnow
      @777repentnow Год назад +12

      That’s incredible! Any videos with this story?

    • @stephen3762
      @stephen3762 Год назад +33

      That's kind of sad that fathers and sons are fighting in the same war.

    • @flatsurfaces1913
      @flatsurfaces1913 Год назад +26

      @@stephen3762 it was a common thing in the past

    • @lilslicknick93
      @lilslicknick93 Год назад +3

      @@flatsurfaces1913 in what past? Unless your referring to maybe the draft or something but deff wasn’t common

    • @GoofysBandit
      @GoofysBandit Год назад +9

      ​@@lilslicknick93 I think he's referring to the Civil War. Lmao

  • @MarcusAurelius12
    @MarcusAurelius12 Год назад +137

    We have super heros who walk amongst us. I could have done so much more in the Army other than being a Recon Scout. I allowed my own mind to defeat me and talk myself out of Ranger school and special forces. Now that life is over and all I have in my head is regret and what ifs. If you are young reading this in your early 20s. Never leave the military with what ifs in your life. You will live to regret it. These men are truly super heros

    • @goldguard2k
      @goldguard2k Год назад +10

      i was also a recon scout at first, was gonna get out but signed another contract and decided to go sof and rs. no regrets

    • @MarcusAurelius12
      @MarcusAurelius12 Год назад +6

      @@goldguard2k proud of you brother. I'm 34 and got out at 28. Spent 7 years as a scout. Prepared myself for Ranger School after leaving fort Campbell and into Fort Irwin. Fort Irwin sucked the life out of me. Lost the drive I once had. I fell victim of a weak mind. Godspeed brother

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад

      @@goldguard2k congratulations bro that has to be awesome. And stuff you should be very proud of. That is sooo cool.amd I bet it was fun. And going that far ya you would have no regrets at all. Thanks for serving the nation and for being soft/sf. What a cool job I bet that was. Hey I have a question and your the perfect gentleman to ask. Are SF and SOF the same thing basically or different?

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад +10

      And one more thing I wanted to add. None of you men have anythig to regret. You all served your country bravely. And all of us Americans are Greatfull for all of you that did. Thank you gentlemen...

    • @euphoria2339
      @euphoria2339 Год назад +1

      I’m turning 26 is it too late

  • @davidreynolds2126
    @davidreynolds2126 Год назад +38

    Seal team 6 and Delta Force, that’s impressive.
    And here I am still trying to push doors open while I should be pulling.

    • @bg4097
      @bg4097 Год назад +2

      😅😅

    • @josephatallah7921
      @josephatallah7921 4 месяца назад

      it goes both ways
      - Tim Robinson, "I think you should leave"

  • @C-24-Brandan
    @C-24-Brandan Год назад +26

    He's got a super fascinating story & it's super impressive what he's been through & able to achieve/over come. The country needs more men like him!

  • @ivarboneless2649
    @ivarboneless2649 Год назад +44

    Kevin used to come into a GNC I managed in wilkesboro. One of the nicest and down to earth people I’ve met. His son came in a few times too and is just like his dad. Kevin if you read this it was 2014, good memories!

  • @jeffdaniel1000
    @jeffdaniel1000 Год назад +15

    Humble, soft spoken. That is what the Real Deal looks like.

  • @gib59er56
    @gib59er56 Год назад +6

    It just makes my jaw drop when I hear stories of guys from all Military branches go and give 100% and find themselves in the Unit. That is such a huge step to take, yet they go for it because they want to be among some of the very best warriors that we have. It blows me away. Damn man!! It shows what one highly motivated person can do when he goes all out for it. No excuses, no shame , just a warriors heart. Thank all of you people in our Military for who they are, and what they do on a daily basis. Y`all Rock!

  • @muriloninja
    @muriloninja Год назад +63

    Once he gets on the SRS, I cannot wait to hear Shawn ask a similar question but with his "how about the long version?" because that was breezing over a ton of stories. lol

    • @zico1583
      @zico1583 Год назад +1

      Who is this guy thanks bro

    • @ryhk3293
      @ryhk3293 Год назад +7

      @@zico1583 This is MSG Kevin Holland, of CAG (aka Delta Force) formerly of DEVGRU (aka Seal Team Six), one of the very few operators known to the public to have served on both of these two "Tier 1" JSOC Special Missions Units as an operational member.

    • @gumberly
      @gumberly Год назад +1

      "Well let's back up."

  • @ZebraActual
    @ZebraActual Год назад +153

    Note to Self: Never underestimate a game warden.

    • @Redpitbull44
      @Redpitbull44 Год назад +21

      Most of them have the hardest training of any police force. Think about it. Remote. Practically no backup. Everyone they encounter is armed. Even a fisherman has a knife... At minimum.
      And then there's the wild animals and terrain to contend with.

    • @Calvinmob681
      @Calvinmob681 Год назад +12

      Game wardens are usually a different breed. I've never seen an overweight one. Most of the guys I've ran into were country cowboys and all military vets.

    • @TheHypernaught
      @TheHypernaught Год назад +9

      He was in SEAL team 6 before he was a game warden. he was trying to get back in after 911. they said he would have to do a deployment with a regular SEAL team. He wanted to go back to tier 1 operations, so he apllied for Delta.

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад +6

      @@TheHypernaught well they told him he could go back to team 6 but first he had to do two deployments with a regular team first. Then he could go back to team 6. Then his friend told him about Delta Force. And he changed his mind and wanted to try out for them. Since ethry we're the only team higher then team 6. If he disnt make selection there he would have gone back to team 6. But he made Delta Force. What a cool career

    • @alanaldpal950
      @alanaldpal950 Год назад +4

      Or a navy cook ?

  • @ThatMNTrucker93
    @ThatMNTrucker93 Год назад +6

    That is a badass, hard body right there. Team Six, to Game Warden, to Delta. HOT DAMN!

  • @nobodyhome2318
    @nobodyhome2318 Год назад +7

    Met a Delta guy playing golf (retired) he was definitely a badass! He told me he joined
    the marines to fight in Vietnam and then the marines were pulling out, so he joined the army and did 3 more tours in Vietnam! Dude was a legit bad ass! This was in 1986 and we started playing a lot of golf together, I didn't know much about delta at the time, I was 16. The guy was a great golfer to boot and was always trying to teach me!

    • @Cam-lt9nv
      @Cam-lt9nv Год назад +3

      If someone you don’t know tells you, during a round of golf, that he was in CAG, then he definitely wasn’t in CAG.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад +3

      Delta was formed in 1977 with a limited crew. Vietnam was over in 1975. Marines were the first and last out of Vietnam since they secure the U.S. Embassy. Lots of things don't make sense.

    • @FloridaManMatty
      @FloridaManMatty 9 месяцев назад

      This is easy to verify - Do you recall the gentleman’s name?
      Everyone saying the times don’t line up…I’d like someone to name one person who took part in standing up SFOD-D who had not previously seen combat in Vietnam.
      Now…as far as SELECTION in that time frame, unless he went SF, Ranger, or was a combat engineer or a standout medic at the time, the likelihood of his version of events is more questionable.

  • @rezzyn94
    @rezzyn94 Год назад +20

    I try not to fanboy or be impressed by these guys very often, but I firmly believe the only word to describe this guy is legendary lol what a monster

  • @dave9351
    @dave9351 Год назад +23

    Never think a man with a southern accent is dumb....
    Some of the best & brightest "operators" are from the south 🍻
    Thank you for your service, gentlemen.
    Big shout-out to Billy Waugh

    • @dailygiftsforever
      @dailygiftsforever Год назад

      Charlie Beckwith and my cousin fought together at Plei Mei SF Vietnam in 65'. Beckwith was a southern gentlemen and the founder of U.S. Special Forces.

    • @mach183
      @mach183 3 месяца назад

      A southern white boy with an accent and one that chews is the joker that gonna teach you how to shoot a gun ! ,, and if you tell him you never been drunk before then that is your first mistake ..
      Telling him you ever been drunk … good times …

  • @glennhynes5263
    @glennhynes5263 Год назад +37

    Kevin's humility and folksy demeanor is even more impressive/refeshing when you consider, what must be, his incredible competence and drive. What a warrior.

    • @JK-vc7ie
      @JK-vc7ie Год назад

      I suspect he is cunning (in a good way) using his "folksy demeanor". He knows what he's doing.

    • @lesflynn4455
      @lesflynn4455 11 месяцев назад

      The dude is very charming. I'm sure that folksy demeanor serves him extremely well in many situations. "I'm sorry officer my foot slipped on the pedal when one of the chickens broke out of the cage."

  • @rexarnold3950
    @rexarnold3950 Год назад +138

    Delta force what an amazing life that must be. I joined the army infantry. But didn’t have what it took. Will cherish my moments serving my country in Iraq and meeting all these heros from SF 5th group and the guests they brought with them

    • @MaxFromDk
      @MaxFromDk Год назад +25

      Most people don't have what it takes, and no shame in that.

    • @sonnysantana5454
      @sonnysantana5454 Год назад +14

      ay' you had what it took to raise your hand and swear an oath that's more than what most do i quit college to enlist in the corps and do things that most only read about you got salad( ribbons ) on your chest that means that you've been places and done things that most people fear to dream of and you came back from places where your spiritual brothers did not come back from you army bros say follow me we in the corps say semper fi bro

    • @ramirogarza3rd
      @ramirogarza3rd Год назад +4

      How the hell do you serve your country in another country? Anyone that went to Iraq did the opposite of serve their country. Y'all served for these oil companies over a lie.

    • @Ranger_k16
      @Ranger_k16 Год назад +5

      #Bluecordmafia

    • @xObscureMars
      @xObscureMars Год назад +2

      U may have. Did u even try? Don't sell urself short.

  • @Mastermindyoung14
    @Mastermindyoung14 8 месяцев назад +2

    When I was going through RIP back in '03 (right before Tilman), we had a guy who had gotten brought back for being AWOL. When they brought him in, he said he had been living in the woods of Maine for 4 years and started explaining how his tent site had gotten flooded and had to move several times and was making root cellars in the woods. The cadre were all enamored. They brought that dude inside the fence and we never heard anything else about it.

  • @williamreynolds9277
    @williamreynolds9277 Год назад +2

    That stadium where he took his physical fitness test was Towle stadium. It was my brigade task force run that got shot up. I got back from Jungle Warfare School the day before the shooting. We did most of our school PT tests there. It is the same place I took my Pre-Ranger PT test.

  • @calebmoss2081
    @calebmoss2081 2 дня назад

    "Just a little a compass course" that is comedy gold

  • @jamesritchie2167
    @jamesritchie2167 Год назад +7

    These guys are on another planet. I served in Angola fighting Russians/Cubans/all sorts. We were very effective as Bush soldiers but simply were not trained to these guys advanced levels. We were very good at killing the enemy. At Cueto Carnevale ( a 6 month battle) we killed over 4000 and lost 36.
    Once you have been into Hell there is no need to loiter.

    • @jean-sebastienouellet2849
      @jean-sebastienouellet2849 Год назад +2

      uh yeah.. ok

    • @Nghilifa
      @Nghilifa Год назад +2

      Riiight. You lost that battle last time I checked so save the fairytales for someone stupid. My dad got me some boers in that battle though! Also, it's spelled "Cuito Cuanavale".

    • @ktheterkuceder6825
      @ktheterkuceder6825 Год назад

      You also lost 3000 unita allies killed in that same battle. Don't flatter yourself.

  • @casmaster
    @casmaster Год назад +23

    Talking to a CAG recruiter when you're not even in the military anymore lol...wild that it worked

    • @stormybil
      @stormybil Год назад

      At that time that he is referring too, CAG needed more personnel like most of the military anyways

  • @JakeHunter2010
    @JakeHunter2010 Год назад +11

    Some dude have legendary careers ⚔️🔱 served at both tips of the spears. #JakeHunter88

  • @ninjadave1970
    @ninjadave1970 Год назад +90

    This is so great! I got to met a Development Group guy once on a elevator, and he would of giving me his challenge coin if it wasn't for being the last one he had! Their all incredible people! He'd been testing radios and parachute equipment, doing jumps with stuff, and when I mentioned how great it was all the weapons testing he's done, he said "I don't know how great it is... My clothes are so full of gun power residue in his washing machine that he sets off the Airport security detectors every time he goes through them! lol

    • @brother6819
      @brother6819 Год назад +9

      He wasn’t giving you a coin even if he had 100 more on him, bro 😂

    • @internet_internet
      @internet_internet Год назад +7

      Sounds like he may have been telling you a sea story.

    • @brandonjordan2516
      @brandonjordan2516 Год назад +5

      Dont you find it odd that special forces let alone Tier one units make up about 1/10000th of the population and yet, weve all met at least one or 10 of them?😉

    • @dashlivingston5975
      @dashlivingston5975 Год назад

      @@brandonjordan2516 silence

    • @TheInfantry98
      @TheInfantry98 Год назад +1

      He lied to your face

  • @Andrewusmc
    @Andrewusmc Год назад +7

    The definition of a salt of the earth type of guy

  • @DonnyBrook762
    @DonnyBrook762 Год назад +7

    Absolutely awesome.

  • @suasponte4968
    @suasponte4968 Год назад +5

    Wow. He was at Towle Stadium at Bragg. The shooting he is talking about was in 95. My barracks were across the street. Crazy for sure. Badass story.

    • @stormybil
      @stormybil Год назад

      Yup on Ardennes street

    • @jamesgarner4127
      @jamesgarner4127 5 месяцев назад

      I was in 2/505 at the time, I remember that day. We switched our run to area j after the shots started popping off.

  • @mr.g1683
    @mr.g1683 Год назад +1

    I recall that news story when a army soldier took a rifle from arms room and set up a position were his unit does PT. He shot down his chain of command.

  • @adriandarcy-taylor6429
    @adriandarcy-taylor6429 9 месяцев назад

    How is it even possible to be such a humble, nice guy, (the kind of guy you want to date your sister) and at the same time, be so badass?
    God bless you Kevin, I hope you live to be 120 years old, and be happy every day.

  • @justaguy4real
    @justaguy4real Год назад +3

    18x and rep 63 are the best programs ever for civilians wanting to skip all the bs and go straight to the top. Wish they had it when i was growing up. Jealous

  • @TAllyn-qr3io
    @TAllyn-qr3io Год назад +4

    I was an STG1 and went straight into the Army and was a civilian for as long as it takes to say the oath of enlistment. Had to do basic in the Army. Even with a break in service of about 30 seconds, I had to do basic and lost a pay grade. Sucked!

  • @SJM6791
    @SJM6791 Год назад +15

    I once heard a Delta guy say that they don’t always take the best operator for their teams. He said they do always get the right guy for the team. They’re looking for a very specific type of person and operator. All of them are bad asses!

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад +5

      That's true. That's what Delta says. It's not the best guy. It's the right guy. Cuz they can train them. So they get the right guy and train them up to be Delta

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад +5

      ALL Tier 1 selections are the same. They are looking for candidates that can blend in the unit and work as a team. The difference here is that Devgru only takes from Seals because they have worked together years in combat deployments and they are a tighter crew. Delta takes from all branches but the negative about that is that doesn't guarantee that they all will work tight together once they hit combat deployment.

    • @glennhynes5263
      @glennhynes5263 Год назад +2

      Maybe the right guy is the best guy.

    • @tyronetrump1612
      @tyronetrump1612 Год назад +2

      @@deathfire096 actually not really - Just look at each units selection process. CAG is looking for more of the loner type who is comfortable being alone and working out problems alone but can work with the team. "Eagles are not a flocking bird" as one of the operators put

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      @@tyronetrump1612 and Green Team is looking for a football team? Are you familiar with Green Team? it's nothing like BUDS or SEAL Qualification Training (SQT). Devgru is the same as CAG just add the ocean. Seal Team 6 was formed 3 years later than CAG because of their failures in the beginning. There is a reason both are TIER 1 under JSOC. If you are comparing CAG selection to BUDS it explains your confusion.

  • @superkool7
    @superkool7 Год назад +11

    There isn’t much with this guy on the interwebs. Which makes him even more awesome. I’ve been looking for content for years lol so glad we have more than 2 videos now!

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад +1

      Hey I have seen a video of him telling his story at his church. And what it is , is him on stage and only him . Speaking to everyone telling his story m I just looked it up again. And I don't know how to save the link to my phone to be able to post here. But I know the name of the channel. You can look that up and watch it.
      Channel name is
      Songen
      Look up that channel and you will find that video. A great watch

    • @superkool7
      @superkool7 Год назад

      @@jermf35 yeah exactly! But it’s an amazing story that’s for sure!

    • @stormybil
      @stormybil Год назад

      Because of the amount of classified missions and materials guys like him were involved in

  • @engaling
    @engaling Год назад +4

    I used to go to church with him in Montgomery county. Great guy and was always so humble. Pretty decent with a shotgun during opening day of dove season too. ;)

  • @thirrteenthirrteen5528
    @thirrteenthirrteen5528 Год назад +5

    That shooting wasn’t in Reilly Road, it was in Ardennes.

    • @papatom5780
      @papatom5780 Год назад

      Was it Towles Stadium? I have ran a many a mile on that track, but names escape me now.

  • @Polo-Hat
    @Polo-Hat Год назад +20

    Anyone else find it strange that as a former SEAL Team 6 guy, he says he didn't know what Delta/CaR was when his friend suggested he try for that unit?

    • @kal5126
      @kal5126 Год назад +19

      He obviously heard of Delta...they cross trained and his friend was attached to them in Mogadishu. He had been out of the military and probably never heard of the cover name "CAG" (Combat Applications Group)

    • @praductjunior1519
      @praductjunior1519 Год назад +5

      Am I following he’s timeline correctly? He went from DEVGRU to Game Warren to CAG?

    • @ydb6564
      @ydb6564 Год назад +1

      @@praductjunior1519 yes

    • @praductjunior1519
      @praductjunior1519 Год назад

      @@ydb6564 thanks buddy.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад +4

      He was Devgru and left to be a civilian for 5 years. We don’t know the circumstances why he left but he left. Then after 9/11 he got the urge to go Commando and went to Devgru for his job back. They said No, he could deploy 2 times with the regular Seal and see if he is invited back for the selection. He said NO. He heard that the Army had a quick path to tryout for Delta and he took it. It took him a year. Like I said, We don’t know how he left Devgru the first time. How he left will say a lot why he went the Army route. Normally if you are tier 1 in either Delta or Devgru and quit and you have been out for 5 years they are not going to hold the slot for you. Why would they take you again and then you quit again.

  • @Paco-hh4jd
    @Paco-hh4jd Год назад +12

    I haven’t heard CAPEX in years! I was in the 82nd Airborne and participated in those back in 81and 82! Those things are awesome!

    • @papatom5780
      @papatom5780 Год назад +1

      Capex, roach coach, and DRB1, terms near and dear to my heart.

    • @Paco-hh4jd
      @Paco-hh4jd Год назад +1

      @@papatom5780 Haven’t heard those terms in years lol!

    • @tawcaw
      @tawcaw 5 месяцев назад

      Field problem

  • @lesflynn4455
    @lesflynn4455 11 месяцев назад

    Wow. He literally typed out his resume on a typewriter for entry intoThe Unit in the 21 Century? Bravo Sir. This guy is made of solid stuff.

  • @paulstrathern4309
    @paulstrathern4309 Год назад +9

    This guy is a LEGEND. Real BAMF. But when his buddy described Delta selection and OTC as 'a little compass course in the woods' I said 'JESUS!!' and my eyes popped out of my head. I don't get why Dev didn't immediately take him back.

    • @1970bosshemi
      @1970bosshemi Год назад

      Because that’s JUST the selection course. that’s to weed out the bulk of the applicants.

    • @Defsolid
      @Defsolid Год назад +1

      I wondered the same about why he didn't just get back to the teams, i haven't watched that Danger Close pod episode yet, maybe the explanation is in it.
      Edit: The explanation is definitely in the pod episode.

    • @matthewbodmer5552
      @matthewbodmer5552 11 месяцев назад

      I can't imagine they'd just let anyone back in after being out of the military almost decade, no matter what you did prior. I bet getting into Dev in 2002 wasn't the same as it was in 92.

  • @peanutbuttawaffle
    @peanutbuttawaffle Год назад +15

    put him on the shawn ryan show!!

  • @ifell3
    @ifell3 Год назад +1

    Some folk have fidget spinners, other folk just sit and hold an axe ^^

  • @Mike_Norris
    @Mike_Norris Год назад +1

    His story his so usual and unlikely, it must seem like a stolen valor situation when he wore that uniform with both Special Forces insignia and a SEAL trident. Amazing.

  • @friedmac7146
    @friedmac7146 Год назад +3

    David Goggins who holds the world record of one armed pull-ups was also a Navy SEAL, an Army Ranger, and Air Force Commando, a Moab Triathlon runner etc. And has his own RUclips Channel.
    "Sometimes I spend 30 fucking minutes staring down my running shoes before I Put Those Bitches On!!" -David Goggins
    🇺🇸🦅😎⚓🍺✨⚔️

    • @Nasty_J
      @Nasty_J Год назад +1

      He was a SEAL, did not pass PJ school because of injury, and he never went back to try and finish it. He went to the Ranger leadership school, which is Ranger School, but not a Ranger from the 75th Ranger Regiment. He is badass, but he is not known in the SEAL community as a badass.

    • @Nasty_J
      @Nasty_J Год назад

      @svdclvlnd ah, correct TACP thank you for the correction.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад +1

      Goggins is a pt freak but his issue was he was hurt several times and couldn’t deploy for years after his heart surgery but he was doing a lot of running and marathons and pt outside of the Seals and rubbed off the teams the wrong away. They didn’t give him orders to re-enlist with the Seals and was rejected for Devgru and he was approved to tryout for Rangers. Long story but they wanted him gone. Great pt guy but not so much for the teams. He even admits that after work he didn’t want to be part of the teams and wanted to do his thing solo. The fact is the Seals are a tight fraternity. If you are not tight with the teams and can’t think teams first before you they will push you out.

    • @friedmac7146
      @friedmac7146 Год назад +1

      @@deathfire096 )) I'll let him know you're input. Respectfully where are You Posting From in a General Vicinity?
      I'm from the Omaha ✨🌽✨ Nebraska Area.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      @@friedmac7146 😂 is not my input but from his own mouth. I’m in Utah.

  • @gussieclaymore
    @gussieclaymore Год назад +4

    "CAG, what's that" ? How did this guy not know of the existence of CAG considering that both units cross train together and deploy into GWOT ?

    • @VM-yt2fj
      @VM-yt2fj 2 месяца назад

      It might be goes by different name back in the days.

  • @gmswhackos2652
    @gmswhackos2652 Год назад +7

    I drank a lot of beer on victory drive at ft. Benning. Does that count for something?

  • @IanMoone46n2
    @IanMoone46n2 Год назад

    That's an impressive uniform right there. Respect 🫡

  • @RenegadeRanga
    @RenegadeRanga Год назад

    The true quiet professionals are the best.
    4 week selection=little compass course, absolutely hilarious.

  • @redcapote4760
    @redcapote4760 Год назад

    When they got his resume back and saw SEALS and DEVGRU on there, that must have shat themselves.

  • @GrandMasterWu777
    @GrandMasterWu777 Год назад +30

    That is one high level operator.

    • @BGrunty
      @BGrunty  Год назад +10

      A Legend

    • @freethinkingamerican80
      @freethinkingamerican80 Год назад

      Pardon my ignorance, I'd like to know more about him...who is he?

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад +3

      @@freethinkingamerican80 glad you asked. I know of a video where he is at his church telling his story in detail. And it's only him speaking no one else. So he drops a lot of info on his career. Here is the name of the channel where that video is
      Songen
      That's the name of the channel. It's a great watch

  • @BruceMusto
    @BruceMusto 11 месяцев назад

    That's a hell of a story.

  • @willeypoboy5607
    @willeypoboy5607 Год назад

    God bless America and every man and women that serve. Never judge a book by its cover!

  • @General_Shenanigans
    @General_Shenanigans Год назад +1

    Hes like the smarter version of forest gump lmao. Just, "oh okay sure why not" annnd off he went.

  • @CannibalLecter
    @CannibalLecter 3 месяца назад

    He heard he'd get a better book deal lol

  • @mdlllib5676
    @mdlllib5676 Год назад

    This story is so amazing and surreal.

  • @robpolaris7272
    @robpolaris7272 Год назад +1

    Imagine being trained as a SEAL and a SFOD-D trained. The last person an enemy of the US wants to tangle with.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      a bullet can't tell the difference. The enemy only has to be lucky 1 time.

    • @robpolaris7272
      @robpolaris7272 Год назад +1

      @@deathfire096 I means in term of their skills. Yes bullets and bombs don’t discriminate.

  • @jeffdaniel1000
    @jeffdaniel1000 4 месяца назад

    This guy is the real deal

  • @brcbrc1340
    @brcbrc1340 Год назад +2

    Love this guy, I o ow we are just seeing the surface of his personality, but I’ll bet he is a riot to have fun with, makes me smile, reminds me of my old Army buddies and doing fun shit on the weekends, besides drinking, I dont miss the military, but I sure do miss the people

  • @mvubu6823
    @mvubu6823 10 месяцев назад

    Moral of the story.... don't fk around with a game warden, never know his background.

  • @danielshaw8049
    @danielshaw8049 Год назад

    A Country Boy , will survive.

  • @itsme_Willow
    @itsme_Willow Год назад +4

    He made that sound way too simple

  • @JMums2
    @JMums2 8 месяцев назад

    I feel like the delta guy in the black hawk down movie was trying to sound like him

  • @jimpowell2296
    @jimpowell2296 10 месяцев назад +1

    Shows you that ST6 is more than enough training to go to CAG.

  • @Pscuffed
    @Pscuffed Год назад +6

    awesome story

  • @Ranger_k16
    @Ranger_k16 Год назад +9

    You'll notice that Delta never tries out for SEALs but SEALs try out for Delta. Go Army!

    • @BGrunty
      @BGrunty  Год назад +4

      You can’t try out for DEVGRU if your in DELTA

    • @Ranger_k16
      @Ranger_k16 Год назад

      @@BGrunty you must not get out much

    • @78ramjr
      @78ramjr Год назад +1

      @@Ranger_k16 DEVGRU only selects from the SEAL Teams, so why would a Tier 1 operator step down to “Try” out for another Tier 1 unit? He is correct a Delta Operator can not just sign up for a DEVGRU spot.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      @@78ramjr LOL, We never tryout to be in NASA by his logic. Because We can't. There is NO path or shortcut for Delta to be Devgru.

  • @KarmaFlight
    @KarmaFlight Год назад +1

    You can't make a story like this up. OUTSTANDING!!!!!!

  • @chrisculley3756
    @chrisculley3756 3 месяца назад

    I've heard some odd stories about guys getting in Delta from being with the 3rd Battalion 75th Ranger regiment I Heard lots of stories . Had a few friends go to selection from my company and out of my platoon and it was always something that I wanted to do as well unfortunately never got the chance. But this has to be one of the oddest stories I've ever heard and I've heard some good ones. But this is just the oddest one I've ever heard joining the National Guard for a year to just go to CAG selection as a game warden prior SEAL guy. Holy shitballs. RLTW 3/75

  • @jetdr
    @jetdr Год назад +15

    To be a member of not 1 but both of the most elite groups in the Military, not just the US, but these two groups are pretty much the Gold Standard worldwide! I mean Delta (CAG) are legendary

  • @edgleason8918
    @edgleason8918 Год назад +1

    He's typical of the real been-there-done-that guys.

  • @Stewart5225
    @Stewart5225 Год назад +2

    Kevin Holland is an American Hero

  • @Cleatusfrommybasement
    @Cleatusfrommybasement Год назад +4

    I was there at Bragg in 95 when the shooting happened. Was a 2nd brigade run for 325 and supply guy shot up the formation. 7 guys from 1/325 were hit. But he thought he was shooting up 4/325 but it was 1/325. I was Bco 1/325 back from Haiti from reenlisting to get a RIP contract. Cco 1/325 had 3 shot I believe. Steve Greer, major Tom Greer twin brother was one of the guys who tackled the dude and beat the shit outta him.

  • @taltezy2941
    @taltezy2941 Год назад

    He took a step up.

  • @anthonymckay9404
    @anthonymckay9404 Год назад +1

    I think it's that Delta selects from personal with combat MOS's , and in a grade of E5 or higher. Not just army or a nother branch so they are not just picking up just anybody in the military. So if you do not have a combat job you don't get recruited. VS seals are open to all personnel in the navy and marines who may not have combat skill set already. So by the time Delta guy may have had many combat tours before he even reached being qualified to even being eligible for recruitment. And yes its not just rangers and SOF they pull from its combat MOS.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      Not true. Coast Guard or National Guard have NO combat deployment and Delta will take them. Devgru only takes the top senior Seals from the teams with years of combat deployments. Devgru only takes from the Seal community making the teams real tight together. They all know each other and had training and combat deployment together. To be consider for Devgru you need to be a senior SEAL E-5 or above active with the Seals with plenty of combat deployments. Devgru is also tier 1 and are very demanding.

    • @anthonymckay9404
      @anthonymckay9404 Год назад

      @mike boyer Combat MOS doesn't mean you have combat deployments. You have a job training and preparing for combat and if you are an E5 you've been doing it fr sometime most likely and when you've been recruited you've more than likely shown them something. Like the 18 Airbrne has an additional required 4 mile run and 12 k road March in addition to the army's bi annul fitness test requirements. Versus the seals takes volunteers newly in the navy and marines with zero combat training and leadership training.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      @@anthonymckay9404 Seals are tier 1 and tier 2. There is a 2 year pipeline to get to the Seal teams and once you make it you are the new guy in the team deploying with veteran Seals to be deployment ready. Devgru Green team is another level in the Seals. You need to be top 1% in the teams with years of combat deployments just to be consider for Green team. Most Seals selected for Green Team are E-5 and above. Both tiers in the Seals is about deployments with the teams. The reason the Seal teams are tighter because they stay within the community. Seals have their own leadership training in the community. You think Seals make E-5, E-6, Chief and Master Chiefs with no leadership training in the pipeline? 😂

    • @Tipasa100
      @Tipasa100 Год назад

      Not accurate.

    • @borrago
      @borrago 25 дней назад

      ​@@deathfire096more national guard soldiers deployed to Afghanistan than active duty.

  • @whalehands
    @whalehands Год назад +7

    I just realized that's Daniel Winkler sitting in the middle. Have one of his knives sitting on my hip as I write this.
    And he mentions Kyle Lamb. The knife I have on me is the Case/Winkler Kyle Lamb Hunter.

  • @chrisholland1504
    @chrisholland1504 Год назад

    "You know" x 100

  • @jonathanroberts9905
    @jonathanroberts9905 Год назад +1

    So basically, what you're trying to say is........ You're a total badass 😎 👏 🙌
    Okay Sir

  • @xaviervaldes4074
    @xaviervaldes4074 Год назад +1

    How old was Kevin hollands when he joined DELTA ?

  • @mariobriones1074
    @mariobriones1074 7 месяцев назад

    E5 dev gru is crazy

  • @MrSwccguy
    @MrSwccguy Год назад +2

    i DoNt kNoW, dElTa iS mOrE pRoEsSiOnAL

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад +1

      All tier 1 are super professionals. Devgru is a longer pipeline. No direct shortcut from other branches. You need to pass Buds and get to the teams and have years of combat deployment just to be consider for Devgru.

    • @MrSwccguy
      @MrSwccguy Год назад +1

      @@deathfire096 you missed the joke dude r/woosh

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад +1

      @@MrSwccguy LOL

    • @MrSwccguy
      @MrSwccguy Год назад

      @@deathfire096 r/woosh

  • @grantbuxton
    @grantbuxton Год назад +1

    I wish I had the mental strength and maturity to have had made it there, I ruined my sfas slot for getting in a fight two nights before I was supposed to leave for brag

    • @BGrunty
      @BGrunty  Год назад

      Everything happens for a reason

  • @heywoodjablome7834
    @heywoodjablome7834 Год назад +6

    He needs to be on the Shawn Ryan show

    • @andeleampere5823
      @andeleampere5823 10 месяцев назад

      He needs to be in the Oval Office instead of President Joseph Biden, and likely instead of any other American! Hey There, Kevin! Duty is calling! The 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses will be held on January 15, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. If you get with Ryan "Bird Man" Parrot, perhaps he can talk his friend Mr. Musk into throwing you three billion dollars (before you get the show on the road, so that is legal). Iowa native and 12 years a SEAL Mike Ritland (having interviewed that former SEAL Mr. Ryan Parrot on his Mike Drop podcast, who was so brave he gave out his phone number for people who might be hurting and need his help!) would love to see you win with most other Americans also! Thanks for your service for our Land of the Free and Home of the Brave with the red in our flag representing the Americans who gave their blood and lives for our United States to be a free country under God and Americans, whose rights were given from God, not from leaders; for instances: whose foundation for existence had required violence and deceptions of man evolving man from less complex animals, almost like Islamic the terrorists' foundation for existence requiring violence and deceptions of man today for Jihad.

  • @karanscheema
    @karanscheema Месяц назад

    Legend

  • @machstem6390
    @machstem6390 Год назад +1

    You back? How was it?

  • @American-BadAss732
    @American-BadAss732 Год назад

    That's insane he could have went right back to the seals and got some real good trigger time right away but he went through all that selection again to do the same thing in the army instead of navy...If u think about it.

    • @borrago
      @borrago 25 дней назад

      CAG does not do the same thing as devgru.

  • @Dowling.JT9
    @Dowling.JT9 Год назад +4

    this is the dude that was red squadron, left, and then when he tried to come back they told him no, delta might take you though...? because why? SWC transfering to an Ateam Style Delta squad... questions.

    • @vitigaymer1053
      @vitigaymer1053 Год назад +8

      No. They told him he would need to spent a few deployments on a vanilla SEAL Team before he could return to DEVGRU.
      So one of his DEVGRU pals who served with Delta during Black Hawk Down. Told him he would try for Delta rather than spend a few years at regular SEAL Team

    • @jermf35
      @jermf35 Год назад +3

      @@vitigaymer1053 what you said are facts... I don't know why the other guy chose to forget that last part you said. The man says it in the video. It's seems like some people are tryig to discredit him for some reason I'm guessing jealousy. But ya of course he would try out for Delta instead of having to do two deployments on a vanilla team before he could go back to team 6.. cuz his original plan was to go back to team 6> but instead of wasting time jumpig through those hoops. He chose to upgrade and try out for Delta. And if he didn't make it he had the seals to fall back on. But he made Delta. Stayed in tier one the whole way and what a cool career ends up and Delta Force

    • @zico1583
      @zico1583 Год назад

      Hi guys anyone have the link to the full interview plz

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      @@jermf35 LOL There is more to the story. Going from tier 1 to tier 1 is not an upgrade but he wasn't tier 1, he was former tier 1 off the military for 5 years, he wasn't even in the reserves when he left. He was a civilian for 5 years. Tier 1 are not going to hold your spot for you for 5 years while you play civilian and then decide to comeback to the team. It doesn't work that way. It's like a QB in the NFL, no team will hold the job for 5 years and then you will be a starting QB again if you decide to return. You have to tryout in training camp and compete with other QB's for the spot if you are lucky, usually after 5 years out of the NFL, they don't want you because there are guys younger and faster than you for the spot. Without looking at is Seal records We don't know how he left in the first place and in what conditions and why ST6 didn't want him back. You guys are basing this by his version and not the version of his superiors in the team since records are confidential. Many good Seals are rejected to ST6 and some ST6 are sent back to the regular teams because you are in constantly in combat deployment and you have to qualify for your spot and promotion all the time. ST6 is a different animal go ask DJ Shipley. He said ST6 selection test was the hardest thing he did and he barely made it and once he was there and did many combat deployments with ST6, he came out messed up and 7 times he almost died. Like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are an Army wars, not Navy or Air Force, so after 9/11 the Army got pressure to fill a lot of slots including Rangers and Delta so they opened their process to all branches and a route for other branches to be Delta after 1 year and he took it. Devgru are a tight unit. They only select from the top 1 % of the teams and that line is long to tryout. If you leave for 5 years and want to comeback, you have to go on combat deployments with the regular Seals to prove your condition and show them you are Devgru qualified again. It's all about deployments for the Seals. That's how they grade you. How well you operate with the teams. That was his test and he went the Army route.

    • @gbody2617
      @gbody2617 Год назад

      SWC? Single Whacky Caucasian?

  • @st3wi3D
    @st3wi3D Год назад +1

    Crazy story!😅

  • @pm3577
    @pm3577 Год назад +1

    Where’s the whole interview please?

    • @DZ-hu2sv
      @DZ-hu2sv Год назад

      Put in Kevin Holland and scroll down a little bit. I found it that way. Idk his last name but finally found it in the comments

    • @DZ-hu2sv
      @DZ-hu2sv Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/i64bMjUIdO8/видео.html

    • @DZ-hu2sv
      @DZ-hu2sv Год назад

      That's the link. I was hoping I could copy it without losing where this comment was 🤣

  • @Golgi-Gyges
    @Golgi-Gyges Год назад +2

    I missed where he was a SEAL

  • @editingbasket9728
    @editingbasket9728 Год назад

    Some people feel the need to ask the internet should they enlist and some people tell the internet how they enlisted and it's about the only thing they can tell you about their service.

  • @ag4832
    @ag4832 Год назад +2

    Where can I find the full video?

  • @FreshlySnipes
    @FreshlySnipes Год назад

    What. A. Legend.
    Would love to see a movie about his story.

  • @chillindinner
    @chillindinner Год назад +1

    Where can I watch the rest of this interview?

    • @BGrunty
      @BGrunty  Год назад

      Jack carr - Kevin Holland

  • @na-dk9vm
    @na-dk9vm 6 месяцев назад

    Genuinly asking, i take it everyone on bragg knows where the delta compound is?? As in, they know where it is and see it regularly, but obviously stay away from it??

  • @68Tboy
    @68Tboy Год назад

    He did the PT test at range 325😂

  • @ninjanunch27
    @ninjanunch27 Год назад +2

    Come to the Shawn Ryan show Kevin. Please it would be awesome. Would love to hear some stories from you and I heard you were in Ukraine recently too. 🦅

  • @glennwatson3313
    @glennwatson3313 Год назад +3

    So this guy was in the navy, the National Guard and the Army, not to mention the Park Ranger Service. Was he also an Avenger?

    • @captaincrunch72
      @captaincrunch72 Год назад +1

      He was a North Carolina state game warden NOT a park ranger... Game wardens are state troopers / police

  • @davidcarik1761
    @davidcarik1761 Год назад +2

    I would often ask my Dad (former Sailor) about how I could do something (pre-Internet) and he would say "I don't know, why don't you go down there and talk to someone and see what's going on." He would also say "Well, call them up on the phone and find out the straight skinny."
    Mr. Holland wants to join Delta so he just picks up the phone and "talks to someone.....and gets the straight skinny."
    😂

  • @johndeere8594
    @johndeere8594 Год назад

    I can’t believe the state didn’t hold this guys job. The citizens of North Carolina should have been on the phone with every congressman they could get a hold of raising hell. Calling the governor. They should have found something for that man to do.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      Why would they hold a job for him when he was in the Army killing people? He left the job to go Army. They should give that job to a poor unemployed person looking for a job since he already had a new job with the military.

    • @johndeere8594
      @johndeere8594 Год назад

      @@deathfire096 Next time you can take his place completing special forces training and risking your life for the rest of us practically for no pay.We want have anything to worry about with you on the job.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 Год назад

      @@johndeere8594 that’s weird. You get paid in the Army since day 1 plus special pay for special training. Is not free. Thanks for the laugh.

  • @MrCarlos93B
    @MrCarlos93B Год назад

    That is so army.