Green Beret Exposes the Government's Chinook Shootdown Cover-Up | Ep. 294

About this video

Terry Wilson, a retired Army Sergeant Major and Green Beret with 7th Special Forces Group, recounts his journey from a chaotic childhood involving theft and drug dealing to 24 years of military service. He describes getting three juvenile felonies, joining the Army as an MP, and later passing Special Forces selection in 2004. Wilson details his first deployment to Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, where his team experienced daily contact with Taliban forces during a 10-month deployment, resulting in hundreds of enemy casualties.

Key takeaways

• Wilson argues that his tumultuous childhood built resilience that made military training easier to handle compared to peers from more stable backgrounds.
• Wilson describes Helmand Province operations as primarily movement-to-contact missions with daily troops-in-contact situations, claiming his team achieved hundreds of enemy kills during a 10-month deployment.
• Wilson recounts that his sister ODA lost multiple personnel during his first deployment, including an 18 Delta named Tim Padet who Wilson says was killed by PKM fire before armored ‘chicken plates’ became standard equipment on gun trucks.

Episode details: published June 2, 2026 · 29.7K views · 2:35:23 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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