Special Forces Sergeant Major in Afghanistan, Memoir Ghostwriter Randall Surles (SGM, Ret.) Round 2
August 31, 2024
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as posted by the channelToday on Combat Story we have our second interview with 32-year veteran and retired Special Forces Sergeant Major Randy Surles, who entered the Army in 1987 and retired in 2019. In round one we covered Randy’s jump into Panama where he broke his leg and had to crawl for seven hours to safety, his transition into Special Forces from the Ranger Regiment, and his attending Lancero school in Colombia, which you can think of as a more dangerous Ranger School (entirely in Spanish!).
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In this episode, we dive into his time leading Green Berets in the post-9/11 era in Afghanistan where he saw multiple combat deployments. Randy now helps veterans write their own memoirs as a ghostwriter with the aptly titled website The Military Editor. With that, please enjoy our second interview with Randy Surles.
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