Valuetainment - April 09, 2025


＂Trump Canceled Us On The Ramp＂ – Navy SEALs Reveal Secret Aborted Mission That Almost Sparked WAR

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On this episode of the podcast, we sit down with retired Navy Admiral Mike Hayden, who served with the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) for 17 years. He talks about some of the scariest moments of his career, including the time a nuclear bomb exploded in his face on a mission, and how he managed to get back on the plane.

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00:00:00.000 During the 17 years you guys were in, was there ever a moment where you guys were so deep that
00:00:07.040 you had intel where we were this close to possibility of a world war, something really
00:00:13.700 nasty? Was it ever a point where it was so close that if this thing happens and this triggers this,
00:00:20.160 we could be in a world war three overnight? Was there ever a moment like that in your 17 years?
00:00:30.000 There were a couple scenarios under the Trump administration right before I retired. We were
00:00:35.860 spinning up to do a couple things that if they would have went, potentially, potentially. And
00:00:43.240 I'll be honest, Trump kanked us when we were on the ramp getting ready to go. He solved it. However
00:00:49.020 he does, whatever he does, he called and literally stopped us on a ramp. You vividly remember that?
00:00:54.940 I mean, we spun up to go. We were going to go do the thing and got in midair and got ready to do
00:00:59.380 the whole process and we got canceled and spun around and came back home.
00:01:06.600 Okay. So this has got to be 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. This is that time.
00:01:11.980 Yeah.
00:01:12.800 And if this were to happen?
00:01:15.240 I mean, potentially, I mean, it could have been an active engagement with a bunch of Russians.
00:01:20.280 It could have been dicey. You just never know.
00:01:22.640 So you're on the ramp. You're ready to go. Everybody's, you know, strapped. You're boom.
00:01:28.600 Get the phone call. Nope. It's quarter. We're not going on it.
00:01:33.720 Huge letdown. Huge letdown.
00:01:36.300 You wanted it.
00:01:37.220 Oh, I mean, everybody wants it. Everybody wants to go. And you start to think about the ramifications.
00:01:40.960 Like, what if this goes south? What if this does spike off the whole thing and now we're stuck here?
00:01:45.820 We can't get back home. What if it, what if it does go nuclear? Now everybody's back home and we're stuck
00:01:50.920 here in the middle of nowhere. I mean, it gets dicey.
00:01:54.000 But, but is, is it like, okay. So yeah, let me ask a question in a different way. Is, is it like, um,
00:02:03.360 you ever seen, you've seen a movie Hurt Locker. I don't know if you, with, uh, what's his name?
00:02:06.820 Who's in his phenomenal, Jeremy Reiner, right? There's some name like that, right? What's his name?
00:02:11.820 Jeremy Renner.
00:02:12.460 Renner. I'm sorry. Jeremy Renner. Yeah. Phenomenal actor.
00:02:15.820 And you watch him just go up and he shows almost the addiction with the adrenaline and the life on
00:02:25.520 how close you're always on the edge. And he always wants to go back. Every time he comes back,
00:02:29.760 he's around his wife. He's like, he just wants to go back and doesn't know how to be a father.
00:02:33.760 Is it like you're, you're always itching for something to be a part of? Like,
00:02:39.360 give me the next mission for me to go on.
00:02:41.780 Yeah. And what Jeremy Renner does in that movie is he's operating on switches and not dials.
00:02:47.040 He's flipped it. He fell in love with it. He gets a taste of the adrenaline. You can't get it out of
00:02:50.360 your system now. Now you just chase it. We call it chasing a dragon. You can chase the entire time.
00:02:55.580 Be careful what you wish for. You'll eventually find it. But a lot of times they spend their entire
00:03:00.200 career chasing the one thing and they never stopped. Um, you don't enjoy it.
00:03:03.480 Was this mission to take somebody out? I can't get into all the specifics, but yeah,
00:03:09.420 I mean, it was a, a lot of people going through international waters that shouldn't have been
00:03:12.800 potentially possibly carrying some stuff they shouldn't have been. And we were going to intervene
00:03:17.660 and he solved it, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Cause you want to go to work. You want to do
00:03:23.480 the thing. But the way it was presented, that was solved. Was it like, yeah, I made a phone call.
00:03:29.080 I spoke to him. Did he publicly say how he solved it or no? This was all behind. So this is not even
00:03:33.180 anything that publicly has been disclosed. Yeah. I mean, we don't even get a phone call.
00:03:37.580 Just they literally turn around like, can't get going back home. Was Barrett your, was, was he
00:03:42.280 your commander at the time? The chief at the time? Okay. No. So he got out in a 20, 24, no 92, he's to
00:03:48.200 2014. So no, he wouldn't have been in. Uh, I thought it was 92 to 2014, 22 years and a month. I think.
00:03:55.540 Yeah. He would, he wouldn't have been in. He got a 2014, 22 years and a month.
00:03:58.980 Yeah. So, okay. Interesting. So today, what we're seeing right now, right? You, and maybe
00:04:10.120 let me go while we're still on that topic there. Gassam Soleimani. Do you guys remember Gassam
00:04:13.860 Soleimani? And when that, that happened, that was a, were you guys part of that at all or
00:04:20.180 no? Do you guys know a friend? Okay. So you obviously have peers that were part of this,
00:04:24.140 who were on this mission. This was a crazy one. No. I mean, this was a January 3rd, 2020. We take
00:04:33.460 out Gassam Soleimani, who is the guy who manages all the, you know, Islamic revolutionary guard. He's
00:04:42.960 the guy that's dealing with all the proxies. He's the guy that's dealing with Houthis, with Hezbollah,
00:04:47.100 with all those things. And he could potentially be the guy that's running Iran. When this happened,
00:04:54.520 were you guys like, holy shit, this could turn into something? Or was it like, okay, this is a 0.97
00:05:00.860 statement. Knock it off. Stop. Don't do anything. And if you do, this is what the U.S. is capable of
00:05:07.080 doing.
00:05:07.260 I see that as like a show of force. Like how committed we are, how far you're willing to go
00:05:13.840 for the whole thing. No different than, you know, the Israelis after Black September. I don't care if 0.93
00:05:18.540 it takes a decade. We're going to go the entire way. And I think we've shown that as a country
00:05:22.700 a lot. Take us 10 years, 20 years, we're going to keep going the entire way just because we said we
00:05:28.960 would. Then it's what it is. You can go wherever you want to. You can hide as much as you want.
00:05:33.700 Your trade craft can be phenomenal. We just have people that are going to sit in this room all day
00:05:37.100 long and do nothing but hunt you. And we'll find you. It's a superpower.
00:05:42.640 That we have.
00:05:44.300 I mean, you have people that just sit in a room all day long and do nothing but just pick you apart.
00:05:49.220 They'll unravel your entire existence right now. That's all they do. And there's endless manpower
00:05:53.540 of them.
00:05:54.240 Us. U.S.
00:05:55.860 Yeah, I mean, anybody we have to go after, any target we have, I mean, there's just,
00:05:59.480 there's people, that's all they do.
00:06:01.040 Hey, what's going on, guys? DJ Shipley and Cole Factor from GVRS Group. I want to talk to you real
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00:06:05.020 Retired Navy SEALs, entrepreneurs, and co-founders of GVRS Group.
00:06:09.520 Cover everything from flat range shooting, mental health, mental resiliency, physical education,
00:06:14.520 anything you guys really want to drop into. Search us on my neck, find us on there, and
00:06:18.160 I'd love to connect with you guys.
00:06:19.400 Look forward to hearing from you.
00:06:20.620 Appreciate you guys. We'll talk soon.
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