SEAL Team 4 ZeroEyes Rob Huberty | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 124

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Mike Ritland interviews former Navy SEAL Rob Huberty, who served nine years in Naval Special Warfare with three combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. Huberty recounts his path from high school wrestler to SEAL Team 4, sharing stories from BUD/S training, hazing culture, and strike force missions in Baghdad hunting bomb makers and financiers. He discusses his transition from military service to co-founding Zero Eyes, a company providing AI gun detection software, and reflects on the realities versus expectations of SEAL operations.

Key takeaways

• Huberty attributes his decision to enlist after 9/11 to childhood influences from action movies and military books, initially attempting West Point before choosing SEAL training
• According to Huberty, BUD/S training lives up to its reputation in intensity, though actual SEAL operations often differ from popular expectations—his Baghdad deployment focused on intelligence-driven raids rather than direct firefights
• Huberty emphasizes that combatives training in the Teams was largely an afterthought, arguing that if armed personnel are in hand-to-hand combat situations with weapons present, something has already gone wrong tactically

Episode details: published January 16, 2023 · 274.6K views · 2:27:07 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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