Description
Mike Glover served 18 years in Army Special Forces, worked as a contractor for the CIA, founded Fieldcraft Survival, and wrote the national bestseller Prepared. He's been on this show before. A lot has happened since.
The legal case that consumed the last 18 months is finished. He talks about the week he spent locked up — teaching breathing drills in a holding cell full of hard dudes — what the arrest cost him, and how family and a small circle of friends carried him through. Fieldcraft dissolved. He bought the pieces back. Now he's rebuilding it from the roots.
There's also a long stretch on the bin Laden story — O'Neill, Bissonette, the recorded debrief, the point man, and litigation nobody needed. Plus Roberts Ridge, the Jessica Lynch raid, Tillman, and why drama in the special operations community has real downstream consequences.
TRT, alcohol, helicopters, faith, veteran suicide, and a tribute to a Green Beret they called Swede.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Operation Anaconda helicopter crash and Neil Roberts
7:25 Book launch and New York Times bestseller
11:15 Stress, fitness, and TRT management
16:36 Podcast tour after the book release
22:59 Debating a second book on aviation and BASE jumping
31:01 Learning to fly Little Birds and military helicopters
39:11 Fieldcraft’s collapse and return to Mike
47:06 Alcohol, GLP-1s, and changing social habits
56:09 Bin Laden raid narratives and the Rob O’Neill dispute
1:08:21 Veteran drama, military narratives, and public trust
1:21:39 Resilience, therapy, and life after military service
1:32:31 Bear defense and aviation safety gear
1:35:22 Family, business recovery, and returning to helicopters
1:47:10 Rebuilding Fieldcraft Outpost and survival storytelling
1:56:34 Dream cameras, Montana Knife Company, and closing message