At the moment we’ve our first Fight Story from a Swedish Particular Operations soldier and intelligence skilled, Max Lauker. Max spent 20 years within the elite Swedish forces and was a plank holder for one of many predecessor items to what later turned Sweden’s Particular Operations Group.
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He served a number of deployments that we cowl on this episode in what I’ve coined as 4 missions and a funeral to dig into extra of the fight experiences and classes whereas additionally referring to loss that comes with this line of labor.
Max takes us via time combating in Iraq and Afghanistan, solo and crew deployments to Latin America, doing full cycle cross-border reconnaissance missions within the Balkans, to lonely and admittedly horrifying intel work in Jap Europe and Russia. That is only a little bit of the motion that Max writes about in his upcoming e-book that he co-wrote with Antonio Garcia titled ‘Quantity 788: My experiences in Swedish Particular Operations – making ready for NATO and the Conflict on Terror.’
I believe you’re actually going to get pleasure from this chat with our first Swede on this present, Max Lauker.
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Present Notes:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Welcome to Fight Story
00:56 Meet Max Lauker: Swedish Particular Operations
03:53 Rising Up in Sweden and Navy Service
06:48 Selecting the Ranger Path
08:06 Swedish Particular Operations Group
11:20 Becoming a member of the Arctic Rangers
15:34 Choice Course of for Particular Goal Units
22:41 First Deployment: Latin America
29:16 Sudden Mission in Venezuela
33:38 Workforce Deployment in Colombia
38:09 Official Mission in Kosovo
40:01 The Full Circle Mission in Kosovo
41:19 Reconnaissance and Surveillance Operations
44:22 Cross-Border Tensions and Discoveries
47:30 Reflections on the Kosovo Mission
49:22 Transition to Iraq: A Harmful Deployment
52:50 Afghanistan: Intel and Direct Motion
57:26 Lonely Intel Work in Jap Europe
01:10:54 The Challenges of Counterintelligence
01:15:27 Writing the Ebook: A New Mission
01:20:06 Ultimate Ideas and Reflections
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