Episode · The Shawn Ryan Show · 2025-08-14
Books mentioned on #227 Henry Dick Thompson - MACV-SOG Operator, Codename "Dynamite"
Henry L. (Dick) Thompson, Ph.D., is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and legendary MACV-SOG operator known by the codename "Dynamite."
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“author of SOG codenamed Dynamite, a twobook series about top secret missions that were once classified for 20 years”
Plugged The Stress Effect
“and author of the stress effect, teaching leaders how to make decisions under pressure.”
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“Still have it put it in the book.”
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“you know, if you read the book, when you get in there, you'll see that, you know, I would keep having that discussion uh with Meadows”
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“so that you know people remember and been doing that and you'll see in the back of the book and in the book you'll see every month uh there's a section in there the guys of those 34 here are the ones that died this month”
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“I mean, in the book, it's related initially to combat, but it's still combat when you're not in combat. um the moving forward.”
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“keep remember in the book it talks about um you know people die people die twice. The first time they die is when their heart chs.”
Plugged SOG Codename Dynamite
“Um, so some discussion back and forth like that. Um, and got to the point where we were being overrun and you know why I called a com um, (In the book I just call it the grim reaper coming in)”