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Episodes: 391
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.9/5.0
Estimated listeners: >100k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
YouTube: 418.0k subscribers
Instagram: 47.0k followers
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mike@trikos.com
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Host
Mike Ritland - Former Navy SEAL and bestselling author. He hosts Mike Drop, where he speaks candidly with high-credibility guests about leadership, resilience, and the real human costs and lessons behind high-per...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Terry Wilson - Special Operations Experience, Afghanistan Deployments, Leadership Under Pressure, Grief And Rebuilding, Faith And Personal Redemption, U.s. Foreign Policy And Winnability Of Conflicts
Terry Wilson - Downed Chinook, Grief And Rock Bottom, Recovery And Rebuilding Family Life
Terry Wilson - Combat Deployments, Helmand Province Experience, Afghanistan Withdrawal Realities, Personal Breakdown And Return Through Faith/fitness
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Episodes
Declared Dead in Vietnam: Major Capers on Faith, Loss, and Coming Home | Ep. 295 | Pt. 3
June 12, 2026
Major James Capers spent years after Vietnam running ambushes behind enemy lines, surviving an assassination attempt in Hamburg, and serving as a bodyguard to President Nixon before a general sent him home after receiving intelligence that his wife and son would be killed on a Saturday morning. But the moment that defines this episode happened after his bloodiest mission — when he was loaded onto a helicopter with his wounded men and his dead dog King, flown through a storm, and placed in a h...
From Force Recon to the Medal of Honor: Major Capers on Vietnam's Bloodiest Missions | Ep. 295 | Pt. 2
June 11, 2026
Major James Capers ran 50 missions in Vietnam as a Force Recon Marine — combat swims in shark-infested waters, a POW rescue that earned him his first Purple Heart and Bronze Star, and a four-day battle that left him wounded with his legs broken and his dog dead. He was one of the few African Americans in Force Recon, and fought his way into Combat Swimmer school when the commanding officer tried to send him home before he even started. He spent three months at Khe Sanh facing a Chinese divisi...
DECLARED DEAD IN VIETNAM: Force Recon Legend Finally Gets the Medal of Honor | Ep. 295 | Pt 1
June 09, 2026
Major James Capers led a four day mission in Vietnam that should have killed him. His unit was inserted, took heavy contact, and fought through the night with everything they had. He was wounded, his dog was killed, and when the helicopter finally came in to pull them out, he told the crew to take his men and leave him behind. President Trump signed a bill awarding him the Medal of Honor for what he did on that trail, outnumbered and outgunned, refusing to abandon a single Marine no matter th...
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