Navy SEAL Immigrant Drago Dzieran Part Two | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 162

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Retired Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran has a complicated past. Before serving twenty years at the Tip of the Spear, he was a political prisoner in his home country of Poland after they assumed Communist rule. After immigrating to America, he became a citizen, joined the military, and not long after started serving with Jocko Willink over at SEAL Team 2, before eventually transitioning to SEAL Team 4. He's operated all over the world, stopped a lot of bad guys, and even archived his travels in his memoir 'The Pledge to America: One Man's Journey from Political Prisoner to U.S. Navy SEAL'. What makes a man move away from his home to fight for another? What was Jocko like on SEAL Team 2? And what does the future have in store for Drago Dzieran? Let's find out. ---------- Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:36 - Life was Totally Different Now 06:46 - A Newly-Released Political Prisoner 14:25 - An Emergency U.S. Visa 19:35 - Working-Class American Compassion 33:42 - Joining the Military 38:05 - A Brief Explanation of Skydiving (& American Women) 43:01 - I Joined the Navy, Having Never Seen the Ocean 50:47 - Joining SEAL Team 2 01:01:21 - Meet Jocko Willink 01:14:23 - Working Out on 9/11 01:28:08 - Deployed to Iraq 01:38:23 - SEAL Team 4's Craziest Raid 01:46:05 - Teams in Fallujah 01:56:05 - Dating Advice from SEAL Team 4 02:08:23 - The Pledge to America & The Navy Seals Fund 02:13:54 - Censorship and ConnectZing ---------- Support Drago Dzieran - Book - The Pledge to America: https://www.amazon.com/Pledge-America-Journey-Political-Prisoner/dp/1637583710 Website: https://dragodzieran.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dragodzieran ---------- Sponsors: Manscaped Get 20% off + free shipping with the code MikeDrop at https://www.manscaped.com. That’s 20% off + free shipping with the code MikeDrop at https://www.manscaped.com. I can promise you’ve never seen a ball trimmer look like a spaceship. Get yours today from our folks at MANSCAPED™. ---------- Black Buffalo Go to blackbuffalo.com/discount/MIKEDROP and use promo code Mike Drop at checkout for 20% off your first order! Black Buffalo products are intended for adults aged 21 and older who are consumers of nicotine or tobacco. ---------- Fueled by TeamDog | www.mikeritlandco.com | @Teamdog.pet ALL THINGS MIKE RITLAND: SHOP for Fueled By Team Dog Performance Dog Food, Treats, Apparel, Accessories, and Protection dogs - MikeRitlandCo.com - https://www.MikeRitlandCo.com Team Dog Online dog training - TeamDog.pet - https://www.TeamDog.pet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're acquiring kidnapping.
0:02.0	We're acquiring.
0:04.0	Kidnapping.
0:05.0	Well, body snatching.
0:07.0	Yeah, body snatching.
0:08.0	That sounds way better.
0:10.0	We're inviting Iraqi general to prison.
0:13.0	How about that?
0:18.0	I didn't see the ocean until I came to bats.
0:21.0	Actually when I met Jack of first time we're doing the
0:24.1	quile swim in the silken too and the jacko just showed up.
0:28.1	Fuck that guy was towing me the other guy and the buoy. We basically, well instead of saying hijack because this kind of sound bad. I would say we acquire.
0:37.0	Using my technique of the convincing the guy to speak, not very effective, so I. I'm going to help you join us.
0:43.2	So let me go use my Dragos Accelerated English course.
0:46.9	He got a shot of morphine, so he shut up, he stopped screaming.
0:50.0	And then, you know, we how he's asked to prison.
0:52.0	We cannot just dump them and say, well, you didn't retire,
0:55.2	honorably retire, so fuck you, I'm not going to help you.
0:58.4	We will help you. Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.
1:15.0	Then in the present I was sitting with Andrew Krasuski and like for other prisoners and they were transporting gas.
1:22.0	This is one of the Solidarity Trade Union
1:24.9	flag that the armband came up when I was told not to do it and so we arrived
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