Tu Lam: My Unlikely Journey to Delta Force's G Squadron

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Ritland’s guest recounts his journey through Special Forces, describing his assignment to First Group in Okinawa, Japan, where he experienced harsh team-room hazing and worked across Southeast Asia. He details his transition from jungle warfare and SIFT teams to fighting in no-holds-barred matches, eventually receiving an offer to join the unit (Delta Force) as a combatives instructor. The guest describes rotating through combat deployments with squadron teams and ultimately finding his way into G Squadron’s technical reconnaissance operations.

Key takeaways

• The guest recounts being made to stand outside his first team room all day as a new arrival, then spending a month doing janitorial work before earning trust
• According to the guest, working with Malaysian commandos taught advanced jungle stealth techniques including scent reduction and leaving minimal trace
• The guest describes how targeting evolved from 50% success with human intelligence to 99% hit rates using NSA technology and signals intelligence

Episode details: published July 11, 2026 · 312.6K views · 21:46 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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