CHAD ROBICHAUX | Rescuing Our Allies in Afghanistan and Ukraine (Ep. 302)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Chad Robichaux back to the show. Chad is a retired Force Recon Marine that served eight combat deployments in Afghanistan, retired MMA Champion, 4th-degree BJJ black belt, best-selling author, speaker, and Founder of the Mighty Oaks Foundation. He’s also the co-founder of a new organization called Save Our Allies (SOA) which rescues American Citizens, Permanent Residents, SIV Holders, and other special populations from conflict zones and contested areas like Afghanistan and Ukraine. In this interview, we discuss his initial reaction to the withdrawal from Afghanistan, why he and his teammates started SOA, how they saved 12,000 people in their first 10 days on the ground in Afghanistan, concerns over vetting those they evacuated, what the immediate future holds for Afghanistan, why they got involved in Ukraine, what missions they’re currently running in Ukraine, his thoughts on the current issues of the United States, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. Hi guys today
0:24.2	We've got a return guest to our show. His name is Chad Robacho. He is a retired force recon Marine
0:29.0	He's also an Afghanistan combat veteran. In addition to that, he's a pro MMA champion and a fourth
0:34.2	degree Brazilian jujitsu black belt. He just got his fourth degree this year. Also, he's a best-selling
0:38.4	author speaker. He's the host of the Robo show. That's his podcast. He's the founder of the Mighty
0:42.9	Oaks Foundation. That is a foundation that helps out military veterans that have PTSD or any other
0:47.5	mental issues. They do some great things. But we basically don't talk about any of that in this show.
0:52.5	We spend the overwhelming amount of our time talking about save our allies or S.O.A.
0:57.5	So this organization, they saw what happened in Afghanistan last year. And as opposed to
1:03.3	doing what most of us did, most of us civilians or even people that are in NGOs or even with
1:07.2	the federal government and they're just lamenting like, oh, that really stinks. How terrible is this?
1:12.2	They decide to create an organization. I say they and he'll talk about some of the folks that he
1:16.1	did this with, but Tim Kennedy, Sarah Varado and some other people that maybe can't be mentioned.
1:20.7	They decide they were going to create an organization and go out there and save these people.
1:24.9	That they weren't just going to lament what was happening or wait on the federal government to
1:28.5	do some things. They were going to go get our allies, these American citizens, green card holders,
1:34.8	or people that have a connection to the United States, get them out of there and get them to safety.
1:39.3	And I jotted it down because I wasn't sure about the number. But during the interview, he said
1:42.6	they saved 12,000 of our allies in 10 days. In 10 days, him and his team saved 12,000 people,
1:53.4	people that would have been sold into sex slavery or shot in the street or be headed.
1:57.8	You know, they're not really doing public executions anymore because they're trying to seem like
2:01.0	the Taliban has moderated or things like that. But we get into all of that in this interview.
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