Brent Tucker - ADA to ODA to Delta Force | Operations at the Tip of the Spear | Round 1
Combat Story
Ryan Fugit
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Today we have round one of our two part Combat Story with an elite member of the Tier 1 community, Brent Tucker who completed over a dozen deployments with Special Forces and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta (or more commonly referred to as Delta Force). Brent is now the founder of First Responder’s Coffee Company and First Responder’s Cigar Company, which uses the tag line ‘Coffee with a purpose’ because it directly supports the First Responder community.
In our first round interview, we cover Brent’s unlikely path into the military, to include bringing along his brother and somehow going from Air Defense Artillery to Special Forces to Delta. In this episode, we also delve into Brent’s first deployments with 20th Group, which sounds very similar to a former guest who many will recall who went from 20th Group into Delta: Bob Keller.
Brent is what many of us expect when we think of the Delta Operator as his experiences downrange, book recommendations, friendships, and approach to life show. Please enjoy this wide ranging discussion with a former elite operator, Brent Tucker.
👇 Show Notes:
00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - Guest Profile:
01:55 - Start of Interview
03:45 - Childhood and Sibling Relationships
10:23 - Fear Bfore and During Enlistment
14:44 - Family Business and Raising Kids
24:08 - Factor Meals Ad
25:27 - Family Discussions on Enlisting
27:11 - Recruiter Experience
30:45 - Deciding To Go Special Forces
38:01 - 1st Deployment and Going to Selection
52:52 - Raising Kids and Missing Missions
01:01:25 - Time in 20th Group
01:10:08 - Thinking of Quitting
01:18:34 - First Time in Combat
01:32:10 - Recommended Literature
01:51:35 - Experiences with Apaches
01:53:56 - Listener Comments and Feedback
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the |
| 0:02.0 | 64 comes way around and is doing a gun run facing us. |
| 0:08.0 | And he's shooting and some of them are hitting the compound, |
| 0:10.0 | some are shooting over the compound. |
| 0:12.0 | And like a movie. |
| 0:13.6 | They're coming right at us. |
| 0:15.2 | And me and Bill jump different directions |
| 0:18.0 | and it lands right in between us. |
| 0:19.8 | And there's dirt flying from now from our own explosions from friendly fire and I remember like getting |
| 0:25.7 | up off the ground like wiping the dirt off my face and I'm like this is awesome this is what I signed up for. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to Combat Story. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Ryan Puget and I serve War Zone Tours |
| 0:37.2 | as an Army attack helicopter pilot and CIA officer |
| 0:40.0 | over a 15-year career. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm fascinated by the experiences of the elite in combat. |
| 0:45.1 | On this show, I interview some of the best |
| 0:47.4 | to understand what combat felt like on their front lines. |
| 0:50.5 | This is combat story. |
| 0:52.4 | Today we have round one of our two-part combat story with an elite member of the Tier 1 community, Brent Tucker, |
| 0:58.0 | completed over a dozen deployments with Special Forces |
| 1:02.8 | Forces Operational Detachment Delta, more commonly |
| 1:05.1 | referred to as Delta Force. |
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