#294 Pete Blaber - Part 2: Delta Force Commander on Pablo Escobar, Takur Ghar, and Pat Tillman

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Shawn Ryan Show

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 418 minutes

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Pete Blaber is a retired Delta Force commander renowned for leading elite counter-terrorism and special operations teams across the globe, now applying his battle-tested leadership principles to corporate environments, authorship, and innovative security solutions. Born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, as one of nine children in an Irish-Catholic household. Pete attended Southern Illinois University. His military career saw him rise through the ranks of Delta Force to high-level command roles, directing critical operations in Panama, Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Retiring in 2006, he transitioned from commanding elite combat teams worldwide to leading executive teams. A prominent voice on leadership, team dynamics, crisis decision-making, national security, and organizational effectiveness, he has been featured in profiles, interviews, and podcasts sharing practical insights drawn from his extraordinary career. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: Post jobs for free at ⁠https://ziprecruiter.com/srs⁠ Get 20% off sitewide at ⁠https://helixsleep.com/SRS⁠ and enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you! Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get 20% off with promo code SRS at ⁠https://shopmando.com⁠ ! #mandopod Go to ⁠https://meetfabric.com/SHAWN⁠ and apply today, risk-free Go to ⁠https://shopbeam.com/SRS⁠ and use code SRS to get up to 50% off Beam Dream Powder, the sleep formula designed to help you fall asleep fast and wake up clear. Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today at ⁠https://claude.ai/srs⁠ and check out Claude Pro, which includes access to all of the features mentioned in today’s episode. One thing to pack, five ways to power! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code SRS at ⁠https://www.Ridge.com/srs⁠ #Ridgepod Pete Blaber Links: Substack - https://substack.com/@peteblaber Website - ⁠https://www.peteblaber.com⁠ Books - ⁠https://www.peteblaber.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.5	Pete... Pete, I don't know how much more of this shit I can take for one day, man.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:48.2	But it's important work we're doing.
0:50.0	So let's press on.
0:50.5	Okay.
1:15.5	So, you know, I guess we'll kind of do a segue because we're in Afghanistan in 2002. Just two years, not even two years, about a year and a half later, eight kilometers to the east of Taker Gar is where Pat Tillman and his platoon are doing, searching for weapons cachets.
1:21.8	The, how I got involved in this was, was kind of twofold or two pronged.
1:31.3	First in 2017, Mary Tillman, Pat's mother,
1:37.3	found an intermediary that contacted me and she sent me an email and it said I read your book
1:49.9	I know you were in Afghanistan and you were a ranger if you have time to talk I'd love to talk to
1:55.8	you and so I called her immediately on the phone and she said, you know, she told me her story.
2:04.7	She said it's been 13 years and I still don't know how whether my son was killed on purpose
2:11.1	or whether it was an accident.
2:12.4	I have a massive 3,500 pages of videos, reports, testimonials.
2:22.9	If you have time, would you mind taking a look?
2:26.0	And I was said, told her, hey, I'll be up there, you know, tomorrow.
2:31.4	I drove about 400 miles, I think. They lived up around San Jose. I drove about 400 miles I think they lived up around San Jose I
2:36.7	drove up met her at her place of work she came out at lunchtime she gave me this
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