Ret. Green Beret Storyteller Scott Mann - Part 2 | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 135

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 134, Scott Mann talked about his humble beginnings - enlisting in the Army, working his way up to Special Ops, and discovering some of the most untold parts of the world in a way only a good soldier can. But Scott's leadership, and the struggles that came with it, were only small part of that story. In Part 2, Scott digs into the challenges that come with leading, and the often absurd political machinations that come with it, before diving into the aptly named Operation Pineapple Express, reviewing his charitable works, and explaining just how he managed to get on a stage in his acclaimed play 'Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret.'

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
01:17 - Running the Ops Center
17:29 - Navigating Leadership Waters
23:13 - Challenging Calls
40:56 - Regretful Ops
46:07 - Retiring on My Terms
58:16 - Gender, Vaccines, & Social Engineering in the Military
01:02:50 - Different Ways in Ukraine
01:11:26 - Veteran Entrepreneurs
01:15:21 - Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret
01:19:01 - Operation Pineapple Express

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Support Scott Mann:

Website - https://scottmann.com
Play - Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret - https://lastoutplay.com
Book - Operation Pineapple Express - https://operationpineappleexpress.com
Podcast - The Rooftop Podcast - https://spoti.fi/3FIz3vs
YouTube - https://bit.ly/3lsoR3v
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/scottmannauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottMannAuthor

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0:00.0	having to look a wife in the eyes or a mom in the eyes and you know try to give
0:07.4	them some kind of peace on why their son died
0:13.8	or why their husband died you know there's always the knowledge that you're
0:17.9	gonna have to do that and not only you're gonna have to do it once you're
0:20.3	gonna you're gonna be responsible to some degree for that individual and
0:23.8	their family for the rest of your life from a leadership perspective I I
0:27.1	kind of unpack it a couple of ways and and you know that that always ways on
0:32.1	you right at a personal level that was my only problem with just like turning
0:36.3	it loose is because if you want to fight a gunfight in Afghanistan or you're
0:40.4	gonna find a gunfight I mean these people are your friends too like you grew
0:43.6	up with them you know and and there's a deep deep bond and so keeping them
0:47.5	alive you know first and foremost and if there is going to be loss it needs to
0:53.4	fucking matter
1:02.0	welcome to mic drop the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give
1:07.9	a shit about your feelings
1:10.8	you know asking any organization in DC to police itself yeah it's a loss
1:16.2	fucking cause we're all three of your deployments to Afghanistan similar in
1:21.8	terms of because at mean by the time you went there you were fairly senior right
1:26.2	yeah so was we're all three deployments from from where you sat more of a
1:33.1	leadership type of position I mean were you going out with the guys much or
1:38.0	yep the first deployment in as you said in every one of those pretty senior guy
1:45.2	in in my career I was you know I think I was like 15 years in for the first
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