The Baghdad, Iraq SWAT Team

Chris VanSant, a former 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (1st SFOD-D) operator, joins us for a two-part series on the Shawn Ryan Show. With a military experience of 20 years, Chris has served in the 75th Rangers, 82nd Airborne, Green Beret, and Delta Force. He has completed 11 combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa, and has taken part in nearly 600 combat missions, including the capture of Saddam Hussein and the hunt for al-Zarqawi

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[ddbbtwr]

The Fat Electrician said he knew a guy that would throw a rubber duck instead of a flash bang when breaching rooms. Legendary

[jamestrotter]

Shawn, you’ve inspired me to pursue my dream of becoming a speech therapist for mimes. To all of you out there pulling a rope with no end; to those that feel trapped inside an invisible box, I will save you from a life on the streets. James Trotter’s Speech Therapy for Mimes, LLC.

[ThePatriotParadox]

These interviews you bring us inspire us and are things we not only want to hear, but things we need to know, thanks man

[OCREASONER]

That’s cool. They used to call 1st Force Recon Baghdad SWAT as well. Just hunter killer ops nonstop. This was just prior to standing up MSOB. Ryan, you should really have MGuns Mariota Pa’u or one of the other plank owners from MSOB on. It would be an awesome conversation..

[beastwaynes]

The Charlie Sheen in me really badly wants to know specifically what he means by "commando shit."

[neptunetriton]

I participated in both these wars too. I just turned 20 yrs old and at the time I thought I was being patriotic, defending my country against “terrorism”. The flags were all waving, United We Stand and Never Forget bumper stickers were on all the cars, and when I was deployed, we’d get letters from grade-school kids thanking us for our service. Little did I know then that the war would drag on long enough for some of those kids to enlist and deploy themselves.

The big gut punch is realizing a few years later that we were all lied to about 9/11, Iraq having WMD’s, Saudi/Israel involvement, and a whole lot of other things which made our military actions unjust and immoral. While we took out some genuinely despicable people along the way, that doesn’t excuse the sheer destruction, death, and pain we caused to everyone affected by these manufactured wars for power and profit.

The US and its coalition forces are hardly the good guys in these stories and its strange to hear these interviews gloss over the fact that its not heroic to kick down someone’s door and shoot them when you’re literally the one who invaded their country under false pretexts. You’re the baddie if you did this, not them.

[thodstagshorn]

Thanks, Shawn, gonna watch part 2 right now.

[chromeinox]

Iraq was that country that had nothing to do with 9/11, right?

[troy]

These guys did their job and did it well.

[robertgemski]

Thank you all for your service, contribution and sacrifices for our country.

[frenchtickler]

“We where making a difference”

(Looks at the current present state)

😮😮😮😮

[ranchmantubularspacesausag]

I love these shorts because they leave out so much truth and everyone just eats it up.

[mitedupev]

, and he look real proud of that ... Wow tough men

[AlwaysRight]

They were protecting their country from a foreign invasion. I’ve come to understand this during my career. This guy should too if he has any reasoning ability.

[paradigm-wxbn]

Why am I hearing the: "A-Team" theme??? Murdock??? Wow!

[Mr-American]

What he confused me was.. how did the Taliban with very little funding and minimal resources manage to give Americans a 20 year fight…. In fucking flipflops and PJs on….

[mattwiederholt]

He was basically wiping the Christmas noobs in cod lobbies

[lathynjordan]

My dad was over there w you guys respect the troops a lot of them get back home really fucked up seeing what they’ve seen and doing what they’ve done

[elicallaway]

WOW, our definitions of "making a difference" must be really different.

[samartman]

WE should never have been there in the first place ☹️☹️☹️☹️