I think you should always respect your enemy and then shoot him. I have bullets and a gun. He's a bad guy.

He's going to die. And if he gets lucky, I'll die. These guys over there wearing suicide vests. Do you think your gunfire in that direction is going to suppress anything? These guys are already dead. You can call in AC130 gunships on dudes and they'll keep running at you. If it interferes with me or my team making it back to the states, it doesn't matter. We're coming home. I'll stop.

Daniel Corbett is a keep running at you. If it interferes with me or my team making it back to the states, it doesn't

matter. We're coming home, all stop. Daniel Corbett is a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6, the most

elite unit in the Navy SEALs. He was involved in high stakes military operations all over the world,

including the rescue of Captain Phillips from Somali pirates back in 2009.

He served multiple tours at Iraq and Afghanistan, where his SEAL Team 6 was part of countless search and destroy missions against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets.

Dan is the most cold-hearted killer I've spoken to on this podcast.

He embodies the Navy SEALs, not driven by any ideology or hyperpatriotism. He is simply driven

by the thrill of the kill. After leaving the SEALs, Daniel went on to become a paid private

mercenary, locating high-value targets for both blackmail and assassination purposes all over

the world. His story is so unbelievable that Hollywood has come knocking, where he's got a television

show in development

based off of his book, American Mercenary, in bookstores all over the country, so make sure to go

pick it up. And for a bonus episode with Dan, where he goes into greater detail about his time

doing black ops, head over to patreon.com slash The Connect show. What an incredible life story,

The American Mercenary himself, Daniel Corbett, right here on The Connect, with Johnny Mitchell. When I'm in your house and I have little green circles under my eyes and I have my gun on you, you don't have time to grab a human ship. We did Captain Phillips mission, jumped into Indian Ocean, saved Captain Phillips. And then I just look to my left and there's a pistol

at my forehead. I'm in prison. I'm like friends with all the hooligans. I'm with the shot calling of the jail now. I wanted to contribute to there being less than. That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shang. It's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

When you go into the military, do you have any idea about where it's going to lead you?

To a degree, like I knew I wanted to be a seal, so I knew I'd be heading down that pipeline.

But beyond that, it was a mystery, but it was cool. It added to that sense of adventure in the

unknown. Like, let's go. Let's do it. Yeah. I suppose that depending on what your skill set is,

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