SEAL Team 6 Jailed in Serbia Daniel Corbett | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 194

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 220 minutes

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Subscribe to the Mike Drop Patreon Page to see Ad-Free Episodes Early + Bonus Content at https://www.patreon.com/mikedrop Daniel Corbett provides unique solutions to those with unique problems. An elite Navy SEAL operator, Daniel deployed to Iraq with SEAL Team 5 in the summer of 2005. Later, he joined DEVGRU at SEAL Team 6 in 2007, deploying to various classified locations around the world before shifting into instructing at NSWBTC. After that, he fell into private military contracting, where he would go on to make international news when he was thrown in jail in Belgrade, Serbia for eighteen months after tracking a terrorist financier. Today, he continues to monitor international news, taking meetings with those who need unique solutions to unique problems, but there's more to Daniel's story than meets the eye. What's it like operating at the Tip of the Spear? How does somebody get into private contracting? And most importantly - what is life like when you're spending 18 months in a Serbian jail? Let's ask Daniel. ---------- Support Daniel Corbett - RELEASES AUGUST 20TH - Get Your Copy of Daniel's Book, 'American Mercenary: The Riveting, High-Risk World of an Elite SEAL Team Operator Turned Hired Gun' at https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daniel-corbett/american-mercenary/9781546006213 IG - https://www.instagram.com/american_mercenary ---------- Sponsors: Beam Take advantage of Beam's biggest sale of the year and get up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://www.shopbeam.com/MIKEDROP and use promo code MIKEDROP at checkout! ---------- 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	from what I saw and I'm sure it's happened to guys.
0:03.2	Even if you are totally on the other end of that political aspect
0:07.6	where they're like, we're out for you,
0:09.8	if you perform well enough, you become undeniable.
0:14.0	I was either number one or number two man in the door.
0:19.0	I was at Salter, but I shot hard and I was good at CQC. They were like, this guy's good.
0:25.0	When I checked in that squadron, like everybody here is good. Like you need to perform.
0:29.0	And then I get a phone call from the next team guy and he's like, hey, job opportunity, let's link up.
0:34.0	But you're here for Butchitch?
0:35.0	I'm like, I don't know what that is.
0:37.0	He's like, it's the president.
0:38.0	You're here to assassinate the president.
0:40.0	And then I look back and there's a 20-year year old kid with a pistol right at my forehead and I can hear like the spring of the magazine shaking.
0:48.0	And his fingers on the trigger.
0:50.0	Now it's just like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Ladies and gentlemen as always it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the
1:16.1	podcast. You spent 17 years between active duty and reserve time as a
1:20.7	US Navy seal. He spent time at Team 5, the infamous Team 6, and the reserve Team 17.
1:27.6	He did four deployments and a number of special missions which we're going to get balls deep into, did 10 years as a contractor with some
1:35.9	super secret squirrel shit that we can't mention what the name is but we are
1:40.2	going to talk about some of it. He's the author of American mercenary which comes
1:44.2	out August 20th and you can pre-order it now. He also spent some time in a Serbian
1:49.0	jail which we may or may not get into. Ladies and gentlemen he is the guy that your father warned you
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