Before O.D.A. 3124 arrived in Nerkh in the fall of 2012, former interpreters were in touch through Facebook with a warrant officer named Michael Woods, another Firebase Cobra veteran who was the team’s deputy leader, a role focused on administration and logistics. Bravo Company was a small world. Golsteyn told me that Woods had been assigned to his team as a deputy when he arrived as a new Special Forces officer in 2008. Golsteyn said that he took issue with Woods’s performance and that Woods responded by trying to blackmail him, claiming that he would make his own complaint to Golsteyn’s boss. “I was a new captain, and he just thought he could run me,” Golsteyn said; instead, he fired him from his team. (Despite multiple attempts, Woods could not be reached for comment.
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