USASOC Special Missions Unit Sergeant Major | 75th Ranger Regiment | Sean Hagerty
Combat Story
Ryan Fugit
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Today we have an interview with a former Ranger Regiment soldier turned US Army Special Operations Command Sergeant Major, Sean Hagerty. Sean fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq with Ranger Regiment and then spent many years in the very secretive side of the Army in places all over the world.
After retiring, Sean wrote a psychological thriller called Jones Point that has a great plot line focused on a father taking revenge after losing a daughter but in a far more creative and compelling way. Sean self-published that first book but was then picked up by Blue Handle Publishing for another set of books because the first one was so successful.
Sean is an incredibly accomplished soldier and leader and I hope you enjoy this discussion of both the Special Operations world and more secretive USASOC experience as much as I did.
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Show Notes:
00:00 Intro
01:04 Introduction to Combat Story
01:23 Meet Sean Haggerty: Ranger to Author
02:20 Writing Process: From Notebooks to Tablets
06:46 Jones Point: A Psychological Thriller
08:40 Early Military Fascination and Career Beginnings
16:31 Ranger Regiment Life Pre-9/11
19:32 9/11 and the Aftermath
30:28 Camaraderie and Trust in the Platoon
30:47 First Mission Outside the Wire
31:14 Ambush on Route Purple
35:05 Decompression and Team Building
36:53 Invasion of Iraq
39:20 Early Impressions of War
41:16 Advice for Aspiring Rangers
44:38 Transitioning to a New Role
00:11 Surviving a Coup
48:29 Joining a Secretive Unit
58:49 Life After the Regiment
01:01:43 The Living, Breathing Nature of Society and Selection Processes
01:02:30 Holistic Approach to Soldier Care
01:03:40 Aging Athletes and Deployment Stories
01:05:11 Mental Performance Coaching Techniques
01:07:01 Amazing Training Environment and Helicopter Adventures
01:09:04 Defense Science Board and Technological Innovations
01:16:49 Writing Journey and Inspirations
01:23:09 Sentimental Items and Reflections on Service
01:27:42 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | So I was in a foreign country and there was a coup. |
| 0:07.3 | And what had happened was no one really knew about this coup. |
| 0:11.5 | It's not like, you know, they got newscasters and everything anywhere, |
| 0:14.1 | but I woke up in the morning and it was definitely a field of the air, smoke throughout the city. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm like, something's wrong. This is not right. I don't have any really access to news. I think I hit |
| 0:24.3 | AFM on the TV. They're not telling me anything. So I jumped in my vehicle and was like |
| 0:29.0 | all right I'm going to go, I'm going to go to the embassy and I started going that way and there's just military vehicles there's some pop pop pop I'm like I'm not going that way |
| 0:37.3 | Like all right, I'm by myself so I'm going to go over to where there was a there was a team now special forces guys and like you know what I'm going over to the team house I think I I'm better suited to be at the team house with 12 other trigger pullers I'm yeah team house I went, came around the corner, boom, military checkpoint, and |
| 0:57.1 | vehicles are stacked on stack. And they are just walking down the line, popping people, |
| 1:01.2 | pulling them out of their cars and taking their cars. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to Combat Story. I'm Ryan Puget and I serve War Zone Tours as an Army |
| 1:07.9 | Attack helicopter pilot and CIA officer over a 15-year career. I'm fascinated by the experiences of the elite and |
| 1:14.5 | combat. On this show I interview some of the best to understand what combat felt |
| 1:19.0 | like on their front lines. This is combat story. Today we have an interview with a former Ranger Regiment |
| 1:26.0 | soldier turned U.S. Army Special Operations Command Sergeant Major Sean Haggerty. Sean fought in |
| 1:32.0 | both Afghanistan and Iraq, the Ranger Regiment, and then spent many years in the very secretive side of the Army in Ussasakh and places all over the world. |
| 1:41.0 | After retiring, Sean wrote a psychological thriller |
| 1:44.5 | called Jones Point that has a great plot line |
| 1:47.5 | focused on a father taking revenge |
| 1:49.7 | after his daughter is kidnapped, |
| 1:51.7 | but in a far more creative and compelling way. |
| 1:54.8 | Sean self-published that first book, but was then picked up by Blue Handle publishing for |
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