Awesome presentation! Thanks for the great info!

Excellent presentation.

Thanks for the insightful video brother!

Thanks for sacrificing so much even if it was for you’re pride you still served you’re country to the maximum!

@RRCMikeEdwards

14 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

@josephsilvestre2174

11 күн бұрын

@@RRCMikeEdwards hello, @RRCMikeEdwards just a question since Rangers are Jsoc funded. i was wondering if they get jsoc somewhat of a standard level training that seals or Sf doesn't receive bc of the jsoc funding? Also just been doing some research on SFARTAETC and is it a SOF wide course? that Rangers can attend? or is that specifically for green berets? i was wondering if SFARTAETC the tier 2 Army's premier CQB school??? just asking bc ik itz nothing like SMU training but it would be awesome to have the idea of being extremely capable. Hopely im not crossing any lines just asking bc the SMU route doesnt interest me bc i personally see them all respectfully as highly trained and capable units. i have a huge interest in regiment i just wanna keep it simple in a SOF career.

Super informative video, Mike! Thanks for putting it together! Did you always carry such a muscular frame even when you were doing a ton of rucking in RRC?

Keep up the good work brother!!

There's around 4000 A-Team slots in SF...not everyone in the command is A-Team operators, there's Civil Affairs,& Psyc Ops also

Mike is a tank of a human!

@RRCMikeEdwards

14 күн бұрын

Thanks brother!

Great video Mike. I appreciate your insight. A couple things I would like to say though: 1) There are way less SEALs than that. As of November 2023, there were 2900 SEALs (including ST6) and just over 3500 rangers, so there are actually less active SEALs compared to 75th Rangers. The “10,000” number gets thrown around a lot when discussing the number of SEALs, but that is the number of individuals assigned to NSW, not total SEALs which includes over 4,000 civilian employees, 2900 SEALs, SWCC, and Navy Reserve personnel. The difference is the rangers have all their support internal whereas the SEALs outreach their support to civilians and other navy personnel which makes the total NSW number seem much larger (also includes SWCC too). One Source: Task & Purpose / SOF by the Numbers + many other reliable sources. (KZread won’t let me provide the links, it keeps deleting my comment when I do.) 2) Im sure you know this, but SEALs go to 6-9 months of SQT after BUD/S as well where they learn more advanced tactics including CQB, small unit tactics, maritime ops, airborne, freefall, SERE, tactical driving, etc. And then 18 months of work up when assigned to a team prior to deploying. So they get a lot more training on top of the very basic training at BUD/S. Source: SEAL/SWCC online / Assessment Pipelines (again I can’t provide the link, but it’s easily verifiable). This comment was not meant to be argumentative or negative in any way. Just a couple things that I think are common misconceptions about the Navy even among Tier 1 guys from other units. I appreciate everything you do and have done.

@DavidAndrew-dn2zz

16 күн бұрын

@cornbread_2401 just gonna say this but without a argument but are you a operator? This guy is a tier one SMU operator who's receive more additional extensive training than your average SOF operator. He knows what he is talking about bc he has stated he has worked with multiple SOF units and navy seals current and former have admit that Green berets know a lot and that tactics have changed over the decade and everything you have read on Wikipedia is probably very much inaccurate or out of date information. Please keep in my the information on the internet the government approves and that is bc that kinda of information has been declassified and more than likely has changed over the decade the seal pipeline is probably than a green beret/CCT AFSOF Etc... Again tier one guy who's done it and trained and gone through those selections and most importantly keep in mind has worked alongside these units. Please understand that thank you sir

@DavidAndrew-dn2zz

16 күн бұрын

@Cornbread_2401^^^

@Cornbread_2401

16 күн бұрын

@@DavidAndrew-dn2zz Lol, yes I understand that, and I don’t get my information from Wikipedia. I just provided sources for the comment. I’m not talking about my background on here, but let’s just say both things I said are verifiable facts, any SEAL or ST6 operator will tell you the same thing. I’m not saying anything that is “classified”. Not being argumentative here, but what I said is not even an opinion and anything to argue honestly. If someone likes one unit better than the other, I couldn’t care less honestly. To each their own. But if your opinion is based on the belief that there are 10,000+ SEALs and don’t count the 6-9 months of SQT in their pipeline they have to go to, your opinion is based on false beliefs. And Yes, I know what unit Mike is from and that he has trained & deployed with SEALs. I greatly respect him and everything he does/has done. That doesn’t mean he knows everything about other units make-up and pipeline schools just like a SEAL wouldn’t know everything about his units organization and structure. People can still be wrong, no matter what unit they are from. Respect. 🙏 Still love the video and content Mike puts out.

@DavidAndrew-dn2zz

16 күн бұрын

@@Cornbread_2401 seals teams and ST6 are not even compareble in terms of skills and mission statement. Seals teams will tell u that especially Shawn Ryan. they are just not the same. seals teams do NoT have more land ware training than rangerd or SF dudes. Just known fact bc after all they operate on land. Regular seals teams do more Maritime type missions and swim a lot and sure they get some small unit tactics training but not to mention that all ARMY SOF receives the same training too. Navy seals are great don't get me wrong. But they're NOT as good as Hollywood likes to betrayed them. Also to state that a delta force operator and SMU Army ranger were both not impressed with a Navy seal skill set and this is coming from this video as a source of evidence and if the best operators are not good enough evidence then youll hear it from green beret chronicles and another green beret that he stated that he wasn't impressed not by the brave men but by the consistency/proficiency in combat training

@DavidAndrew-dn2zz

16 күн бұрын

@@Cornbread_2401 Navy seals are Forsure Highly elite and sume best warfighters but I do agree as I see them as the navys light infantry with airborne/mff/combat dive infil/EXfil methods. They're like Army rangers but a focus on Maritime sea operations

Thanks for the video. What does Marsoc specialize in?

man i remember you from the teamhouse podcast , thanks for sharing your experience!

Hey I was wondering if delta force has maritime capabilities/teams? If so what do they do? I think I’ve heard former delta kinda of hint that they do maritime stuff but never clear answers.

Hey man great video. I know that marine reconnaissance isn’t a sof unit but they are a cut above regular marine infantry. Have you ever worked or talked to anyone from that community? If so what do you think about their mission, training, and pt standards? My brother was a marine and said those guys get great training and are “super fucking cool guys” so I got interested in them

I had a mate who left the uk marines without permission. I met him in spain and he went we went running everyday in summer in 35dg heat with the bastard sun burning skin. He eventually went back to uk and took his shit. A coupla years later i met his dad and he told me he joined uksf. Ive only seem him two times since then in 7 years. His mum showed me videos bof him flying a plane and driving some kind of tank. I know nothjng else about him now. SF is a different world❤

@1anre

8 күн бұрын

What squadron?

This is a great presentation, I'm British so getting my head around the US having so many different SF units (sof for yanks) was a bit of a task. Special Forces almost being a trademark for the green berets and SOF being the catch all is interesting and makes much more sense now. Glad to see the marines and rangers getting some credit, rangers have always been great guys, again confusing becuase a lot of blokes who arent rangers walk around with ranger on their arm. Very interesting about the funding for the white seals. I'd have assumed the USN spending billions on aircraft carriers and submarines wouldnt raise an eyebrow at throwing money at the seal teams.

@mikhacoffman4522

10 күн бұрын

Ranger qualified because they passed ranger school which is a leadership school in the army vs an actual member of the 75th ranger regiment.

@1anre

8 күн бұрын

SEALs are the shiny kids of the Navy. They get good funding but not as extreme as GBs and Rangers as Mr Edward said. Green Berets treasure being exclusively referred to as Special forces and don't like other Special Operations forces claiming their title, hence why SOF became more popular to cover other units doing identical work but with different history from GBs in 1952

Rangers also got a huge increase in funding when we showed how good we are. Killed or captured more HVT than any other unit, SOF or CF.

@RRCMikeEdwards

7 күн бұрын

100%

Would like to know your thoughts on SR in the Air Force, up to the 724, from a Tier1 reconnaissance perspective.

@davidedwards3222

7 күн бұрын

I trained them during my their pipeline. Good guys, they do reconnaissance for AF assets. They are not anything like RRC. They were combat weathermen until the AF changed their name. I think they are just trying to find a place to contribute to the fight better than before.

Do you think it would make sense to have the former CIF Companies integrated into the Ranger Regiment vice the Green Berets since the Rangers train in DA all the time? I understand the Rangers are responsible for DA and SR on the SOCOM side, but what are they responsible to the Big Army for? Besides charter time, what else could the Rangers do to help Big Army, especially the XVIIITH Airborne Corps? Could we make 3 more Ranger Battalions? Say, bring back 4th, 5th, and 6th Ranger Battalions? Downsize the Airborne units by 2/3rds? (82nd Abn Div becomes 82nd Abn Brigade, the extra funding freed up from eliminating x2 82nd brigades would be used to bring back the 4th, 5th, and 6th Ranger battalions to the 75th Ranger Regiment. Could Ranger School be part of the initial pipeline to become a Ranger? Why isn't Air Assault part of the Ranger pipeline if Rangers are always doing air assaults? Should the EIB, EFMB, and ESB be mandatory for Rangers serving in Infantry, Medic, and Combat Arms roles in the Regiment? Why dont the Rangers have their own official CQB course like the Green Berets do with SFARTAETC? Should SFARTAETC be a Ranger Regiment responsibility? What if Ranger School and the EIB Board were managed by the 75th versus non-Ranger entities? What if you had a Ranger Battalion co-located with every major XVIIITH Abn Corps unit? Many such questions.

Did u ever worked with UKSF guys and how were they compared to JSOC units?

Could you do one on officers vs. enlisted in SOF? And tips for the pipeline? Thank you!

@davidedwards3222

Ай бұрын

Yeah sure will. I’ll try to do another one next week.

@RRCMikeEdwards

14 күн бұрын

I still need to address that tips for the pipeline question. I just realised I never answered that one.

Hey Mike, would you make a training program that reassembles the Ranger Reccanisance daily training throughout the week? Like weekly Mon thru Sat. Weight lifting than tactical training etc? I would totally buy that from you brother. Thanks for your service. God bless

@RRCMikeEdwards

28 күн бұрын

Man I would like to do that, and it would be hard because most of the training we did takes a lot of infrastructure. As far as the physical fitness training I could put something together like that.

@andresvalentinesantos8746

28 күн бұрын

@@RRCMikeEdwards i would be so grateful if you could for sure man. A thousand thank yous for replying. The inspiration and complete motivation to take part of something you put together for us would be epic. Send it. God bless

Nice video bro.. Noticed though that you have been negative about Seals the whole clip.. Interesting.. They surely cant be that bad.. Its a bit confusing and contradictory how one is the least competent when they are the only unit trained in all components, Land, Sea and Air

Are there any good books to learn how to do recon like recon skills and recon tactics

@sharwama992

4 күн бұрын

I second this 🙏

Why do people refer to TFO/ISA as the people in Virginia? I get that its extremely secretive, but isn't there a decent amount of info out there? (Erick Miyares and Adam Gamal)

@RRCMikeEdwards

7 күн бұрын

yeah its probably as secretive as RRC but its a much bigger unit. Its just because they are always so secretive with their names, it always changes so I call them the guys in VA

Still deciding on whether or not i should go op40 or 18x. I'm in college now and will probably go sf once i get my degree. Any advice?

@RRCMikeEdwards

14 күн бұрын

It depends on what you want to do. If you want to be one of the guys who always get the call and kick in doors and literally hunt bad guys, If you want to stay in and become a Tier-1 operator at some point I think Ranger Regiment will set you up for success more. If you want to go to a SOF unit and experience a lot of different stuff and locations then the SF pipeline would be great. SF is way more chill than Ranger BN and SF guys get to do lots of different things whereas Rangers focus heavily on raids and forceable entry. In Ranger BN you will have to fight for your job everyday. In SF it's not like that at all, ive seen guys get DUI's and stay in SF. In Ranger BN if you make mistakes like that you are gone!

@rhino7933

14 күн бұрын

@@RRCMikeEdwards thanks for the long response man, it’s awesome what you prior sof guys are doing for us young guys. This kind of information is gonna get the right people trying out for the right jobs. I still got a year before I graduate so I have time to pick. Spent the last 2 years training for one of the contracts, and I’ve looked at every option. I guess time will tell

@zero32013

13 күн бұрын

Hey @rhino7933, dude I’m legit in the same position as you I’m a year out of college and still deciding on op40 or SF. Thanks Mike!

@1anre

8 күн бұрын

​@RRCMikeEdwards they get dismissed from the military if Regiment catches them with DUIs or the just get sent back to ordinary army as punishment and to a get a NTR, also?

@1anre

8 күн бұрын

​you both shoukd visuslize what Mr Edwards said and imagine what role 6yrs down the line you'd be happy seeing yourself in. It's not going to ve hard doing it that way @@zero32013

Most level-headed talk on what SEALs should aspire to be. Damneck ar least are slightly above the vanilla-SEALs or as Mr Edwards put it "white-side" SEALs. Looking at Rangers with a whole nother' level of respect now. ALways thought Rangers were in the 15-20,000s & Green Berets were in the 4-5,000s hence why they're paid more and slightly more revered on the army side & are the Special Operations unit that have never had theie Beret changed and are even nicknamed after said Beret too.

Cut your hair hippie, LoL I'm trying to grow mine out so I can donate it to a cancer patient, this will be the third time trying to grow it out, usually get hot and pissed off and shave it Hope you're doing well brother. RLTW!!

I would have guessed that SEALs get great funding, other than Rangers.

@davidedwards3222

Ай бұрын

The SEAL teams are huge so the finding is spread out more but they only have access to the conventional funding, and SOCOM funding. Rangers have access to conventional funding, SOCOM funding, and JSOC funding and its spread among way less guys. This only pertains to the white side SEALS, ST6 has access to the JSOC funding as well.

@brock45569

Ай бұрын

@@davidedwards3222 makes sense.