Valuetainment - September 12, 2025


“Kill Missions” - NAVY Seal REVEALS What You WEREN'T Told About The Iraq & Afghanistan Wars


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

212.29129

Word Count

996

Sentence Count

100

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

In this episode, we talk about how to deal with the consequences of lying to your family and friends, and how to keep your kids from doing the same. We also talk about the importance of being honest with your kids and how important it is to be honest with them.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Nobody got in trouble, right?
00:00:01.320 No, no, no, no, no.
00:00:02.140 And we're really good at – this isn't – okay, I don't want this to sound wrong.
00:00:06.880 We are really, really good at compartmentalizing what happens.
00:00:09.760 And I would even tell my – because you've got officers outside enlisted inside.
00:00:13.820 And I don't want to put you in a position where you report to your commanding officer.
00:00:17.780 I don't want you to be full of shit either.
00:00:19.220 You tell the truth, but we're going to tell you what the truth was.
00:00:23.260 And I'm serious.
00:00:26.140 Because I don't want that Monday morning shit coming around.
00:00:28.600 The best example of –
00:00:30.820 We're going to tell you what the truth was.
00:00:31.980 Yes, and it's going to sound exactly the way they're going to write the movie.
00:00:35.260 Like three shots on the Somali pirates, sure.
00:00:38.520 But one of the examples I have is Iraq.
00:00:42.400 One of the best summers of my life was 2007 in Iraq because I'm a young Navy SEAL, SEAL Team 6.
00:00:49.820 I'm here to hunt people, and I want to.
00:00:52.020 So it was – we were – I mean, we were – the gloves were taken off.
00:00:55.140 We're on kill missions to kill al-Qaeda because they're torturing the Sunnis.
00:00:57.960 Like they'll show up in town, so we're going to find them and kill them, and then the Sunnis start helping us.
00:01:01.640 But like we would do target, target.
00:01:03.240 If we only killed 11 guys in one night, we're like, why did we waste our night?
00:01:05.760 Like there's more out there.
00:01:07.280 But we would hit a target.
00:01:08.740 It's your target or not, but you find intelligence.
00:01:10.780 Oh, shit, the neighbor, he's got back.
00:01:12.020 So you run over there, hit the target, whatever.
00:01:13.940 And we were really good.
00:01:14.740 Like we're not killing everyone.
00:01:15.920 The more latitude – like when I bring up lawyers, the more latitude you give us, the better we're going to be.
00:01:22.160 We're going to play – I'm not going to hurt these people.
00:01:24.100 We're the good guys.
00:01:25.300 Like the two-year-old Sun, al-Qaeda wouldn't have done that for us.
00:01:27.620 But we're going to do this, whatever.
00:01:28.720 But it's so fast because we want to leave before the Sun comes up.
00:01:32.320 Our helicopter pilots can handle it, but I don't want to put them in danger, daytime shit.
00:01:35.780 So when we would wear our – there's like those quarterback things they wear, and we'd keep our masks and shit.
00:01:42.980 And one of my officers kind of came in.
00:01:45.660 So he's the commanding officer.
00:01:47.020 We're doing our thing, and I was like, hey, we found this here.
00:01:49.120 We're in building 211.
00:01:50.560 I want to hit building 370.
00:01:52.240 So we're going to go over there right now.
00:01:53.240 And I look at him and my boss, and I said, shit, sir, you know what?
00:01:57.000 You're in charge.
00:01:58.120 And he looked at me and said, oh, make no mistake.
00:02:00.600 I'm not in charge.
00:02:01.560 I'm responsible.
00:02:02.960 You're in charge.
00:02:03.760 Don't fuck me.
00:02:06.000 And then, you know, he's like, I got the macro.
00:02:08.260 You got the micro.
00:02:09.140 So we would do that.
00:02:10.360 And even when he –
00:02:10.960 But that's the truth.
00:02:11.720 Yes, because he could get – like if we did something maybe a general would be pissed about.
00:02:16.720 Right.
00:02:17.000 I don't want him to know that happened.
00:02:18.100 I will tell them it was very clean.
00:02:19.700 We went in.
00:02:20.200 Boom.
00:02:20.740 Bad guy.
00:02:21.220 Here's his gun.
00:02:21.640 There's a picture.
00:02:22.620 So is it kind of how your kids eventually get to a point where they sit down together and have a meeting and say, look, guys, we're going to have each other's back.
00:02:31.280 No one's going to snitch on anybody.
00:02:33.300 And if mom and dad ask what happened, we're all going to say the same thing.
00:02:36.740 We will solve it together here, but we're not going to tell them everything that happened.
00:02:40.920 Is it a little bit like that?
00:02:42.540 I think so.
00:02:43.900 And if my kids –
00:02:44.620 It depends on kids.
00:02:45.380 I'm just saying I know some kids, maybe four of them.
00:02:47.460 If they were doing it for the right reasons and didn't hurt anybody, I can appreciate their loyalty to each other.
00:02:53.560 Yeah.
00:02:54.500 If they hurt someone, I have a problem with that.
00:02:56.140 It's like – it's – you know, don't just lie to me because you're trying to get – I would rather have – deal with the consequences now because I screwed up and admit it.
00:03:04.640 Yeah.
00:03:04.960 Like some of the best bosses I've ever had because I – if anyone says they don't screw up every day, they're just lying.
00:03:10.360 I would screw up all the time.
00:03:11.820 And some of my best bosses would – I remember two in particular.
00:03:17.000 They wouldn't come up to fight because I'm ready.
00:03:18.560 I'll get defensive.
00:03:19.500 I'm going to defend my position or whatever.
00:03:21.500 They would just say, you're just so much better than that and leave.
00:03:24.920 It's like, oh, I'm never going to let you down.
00:03:28.180 I'm better than that.
00:03:29.380 Shit.
00:03:30.000 I was ready to fist fight.
00:03:31.400 Get my ass kicked too, but you expected more out of me.
00:03:34.740 Hey, what is up?
00:03:35.480 This is Robert J. O'Neill, former SEAL Team 6 operators.
00:03:38.880 I was fortunate to be on some of the most high-profile missions in our very long war on terror.
00:03:43.580 But I am now on Menecht, and you can connect with me there, and we can literally talk about anything.
00:03:49.800 You can text.
00:03:51.020 We can do video calls.
00:03:52.140 I can give you messages.
00:03:53.700 And go to Menecht, find me.
00:03:55.880 Literally nothing is off limits.
00:03:57.440 Any crazy questions you have that you may or may not want the answers to, I am more than happy to do it.
00:04:01.960 So find me on Menecht.
00:04:02.940 Again, this is Robert J. O'Neill.
00:04:05.000 See you there.
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