#51 Chris VanSant - Delta Force Operator / The Hunt for Saddam Hussein | Part 1

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.9 • 38.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Chris VanSant is a former Delta Force Operator & Army Ranger with 11 combat deployments and 20 years experience. VanSant took part in over 600 combat missions, including the capture of Saddam Hussein. In this episode, we'll cover his upbringing and his time in the Army Rangers & 82nd Airborne and how a DUI as a young recruit changed the course of his career. We get an in-depth look at the grueling OTC / Delta Force training pipeline and find out what its like to go straight from training into an ongoing deployment in Afghanistan, where Chris would meet his team for the first time. We wrap up with the early days of the Invasion of Iraq - history in the making. Chris currently serves on the board of the All Secure Foundation and is on a multi-year effort to complete the seven summits to raise awareness for veteran mental health and support All Secure. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://blackbuffalo.com - USE CODE "SRS" Chris VanSant Links: All Secure Foundation | Instagram | LinkedIn Please leave us a review on Apple & Spotify Podcasts. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website | Patreon | TikTok | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the show. We've been having some heavy ones on here
0:07.0	lately right and this week's no different we got a two-part series with a
0:12.7	former Delta Force operator who was on the Saddam Hussein raid which
0:19.8	eventually led to Saddam's execution which is exactly what needed to happen
0:27.5	to that human being. Please like, comment, subscribe to the channel please head
0:35.6	over to Spotify and Apple Podcast. Leave us a review, subscribe there as well
0:41.0	and without further ado ladies and gentlemen please welcome Chris Van Zant
0:47.3	former Delta operator to the Sean Ryan show. Love you all this is a heavy one
0:53.7	and it's important. Lot of history here. Enjoy it. One last thing, merch, gummy
1:00.7	bears, all that good stuff is about to be back in stock. We have a thing we
1:05.5	call the Sean Ryan show newsletter. Go to the description, click the link below
1:10.2	sign up for the newsletter because that's how you get notified when all this
1:14.2	good stuff comes to the market. All right, love you guys cheers. Chris Van Zant
1:19.6	welcome to the show man. Hey man thanks for having me I appreciate it. Yeah
1:23.8	I apologize I'm I think I'm fighting off a little something some of my voices a
1:27.2	little odd but I'll do my best. No worries no worries off you need to take a
1:31.0	break. We'll take a break. Appreciate it. But a whole career in special
1:37.3	operations, army special operations out of the unit. Now you're doing business
1:44.7	consulting. You're really involved in the all-secure foundation. I want to
1:48.4	touch on that at the end. Actually, I want to do more than touch on that. I
1:51.5	want to talk about what they're doing. But for this interview, I mean you're just
1:55.7	a really inspiring guy. I'm inspired by I know my audience is going to be
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