Valuetainment - April 09, 2025


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


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6 minutes

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190.84337

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1,320

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170

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1


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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
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
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.
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00:06:19.400 Look forward to hearing from you.
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