DANIEL ELKINS | Fighting for Those Who Fight for Us (Ep. 351)

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

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Daniel Elkins to the show. He is a Green Beret and the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Director of SOAA (Special Operations Association of America). In this interview, we discuss why he enlisted in the military at the age of 28, why he chose to become a part of Special Forces, his thoughts on America going to war across the globe, what he thinks went wrong with our withdrawal from Afghanistan, Operator Syndrome, the controversy around burn pits, how the US military should change the rules of engagement, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.
0:54.0	All right, guys. Today we got a special guest on the podcast. His name is Daniel Elkins. He is a green beret.
0:58.0	So all you guys that make fun of me for only having seals on the show. There you go. I got you a green beret.
1:02.0	But he is the co-founder and chief executive director of SOAA or SOA or special operations association of America.
1:09.0	So I just wanted to give him a special thank you because he did this while traveling.
1:12.0	He was doing some spots for Fox News and for Newsmax.
1:15.0	And it was just kind of an interesting period.
1:17.0	And the reason why I was on all those different shows and he kind of squeezed us in is because we're at the one year anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1:23.0	So we certainly talked about that in the podcast. We also talked about why he decided to go to military route to begin with.
1:28.0	Kind of the difference between training and war. And this was a guy that I didn't know that until we were doing the interview.
1:33.0	This guy was basically working as a pastor before he enlisted in the military at the age of 28.
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