GRP 168-Task Force Pineapple: A Conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann.
Global Recon
John Hendricks
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Joining me for this week's podcast is retired Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann. LTC Mann spent a career as a leader in the Special Forces with multiple tours in Afghanistan. Scott is the author of Operation Pineapple Express, a New York Times Bestseller detailing the effort of a group of retired special operations veterans led by Scott who saved 500 Afghans being hunted by the Taliban. We discussed the harsh lives of the men who served in the Afghan Commandos, how they moved families to safety, and much more. Tune in
Main Takeaways
- Miscalculation of American assessments on how long the Afghan government can withstand the Taliban
- Operation Pineapple Express
- The difficult lives of the Afghan Commandos
- Village Stability Operations
- Working with Colombian Special Forces
Follow Scott Mann: www.scottmann.com
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| 0:00.0 | Shocking scenes of desperation and chaos in Afghanistan are being seen around the world. |
| 0:06.0 | Can't believe my eyes, says the man who shot this video of people clinging to an American cargo jet as it takes off. |
| 0:14.0 | Machine gunfire could be heard as thousands of panic-stricken Afghans stormed the airport. |
| 0:20.0 | They battled their way onto civilian planes which took off as thousands of panic-stricken Afghans stormed the airport. |
| 0:24.2 | They battled their way onto civilian planes, |
| 0:27.6 | which took off with hundreds of passengers jammed inside. |
| 0:32.9 | One air traffic controller marveled as a pilot ferried 800 people to Dubai in a plane designed for 150. |
| 0:35.7 | 100 people on your jet? Holy town. There were more scenes of panic as Nightfeld, and thousands more fought to get on any plane |
| 0:45.4 | going anywhere. |
| 0:47.2 | Scott in the mailstrom. |
| 0:49.1 | We learned just as we came on the air tonight that another service member has died as I set |
| 0:53.6 | off the top 13 U.S. |
| 0:55.3 | service members killed in this attack. |
| 0:58.1 | And we took note today what the general said, how he described what these service members |
| 1:02.3 | were tasked with doing right at the airport gate in this dangerous mission, their bravery, |
| 1:08.2 | their risk, and now their families back home forever |
| 1:11.6 | changed. |
| 1:12.7 | Here's our chief global affairs correspondent, Mark the Rights. |
| 1:16.8 | It is the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in a decade, and now the families |
| 1:22.7 | of American service members will get that knock on the door, an officer there to deliver the worst |
| 1:29.2 | possible news. The Marines and the Navy medic killed today were guarding the airport in |
| 1:35.4 | Kabul, screaming each and every person who went in. More than 104,000 men, women, and children checked for weapons. |
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