WEBVTT - 4-6-26 Sloan with Ed Gallrein 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 Don't want to be an American. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.840 Got a full show back on seven hundred WLW on 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.959 this Monday morning and cause to celebrate something we probably 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:11.120 normally wouldn't celebrate. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.640 And you know, you take these things as they come. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.120 And sadly, on Friday, we heard that a plane, and 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.479 this would be an F fifteen East Strike Eagle, shot 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.160 down over southern Iran on Friday. That's the first US 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.480 fighter jet loss to enemy fire and well over twenty years. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.960 The two crew members ejected. The pilot was recovered. However, 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:34.400 it became a rescue operation for the weapons officer and 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.519 finally he was saved, and a retired Navy seal and 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.479 Army ranger breaks down the most daring rescue mission in 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.000 a generation. This is stuff that books and movies will 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.560 be written about. He's Ed Gollerind. Ed's in Kentucky, former 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.720 Seal Team six operator, Army ranger and now Trump endorsed 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.160 congressional candidate there in the Commonwealth. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.440 Ed, how's this morning find you? 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.520 Good morning? Well, it's a little chilli out here on 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.200 the farm. So we got a general rule, and the 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.600 folks up there in Ohio will second the motion on this. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.920 You don't put your cover alls up until Derby Day. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:06.920 Just keep them right there in the pickups drug when 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.560 we need them this morning. So dreading to the listeners, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.199 thanks for having me on, Scott, gotcha. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.480 So's it's coveralls, Derby day, plant flowers, Mother's day, got it? 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.640 That is the That's the rule of thumb, exactly right, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:18.560 that's the rule of thumb. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.399 Right there. Let's talk about this. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.120 Both crew ejected and Ran says, hey, we have them 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:24.679 in custody. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.360 You never obviously want to believe that. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.559 And the timeline is rather interesting, but walk us through 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.760 what an airman in this case is actually trained to 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.920 do in the seconds after ejecting over hostile territory. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:35.960 What's the first priority? 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.080 Hey, well, thank thank you for the question. And I 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.160 do want to celebrate the forces that got both those 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.160 great Americans out. And here's the lens that I see this, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.000 right you are. I've served on seven seal teams and 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.040 units that's sort of like a battalion. You know, it's 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.840 a fighting unit. It says not just six people, it's 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.720 over two hundred except for seal team. Stick that's different. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.120 Won't go into that twice as leader. It's cloudy classified, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.120 but I see this through the lens of not only 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.160 having gone through Navy Feer School, but I also went 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.040 through what's called High Risk SEER. That's a whole other 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.560 level up here in the US, and I'm a NATO 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.200 Combat survival instructor. And the profile there was a course 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.560 against the Russia, who was very, very highly technical skilled 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.040 to find out our down to air crewman if they 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.720 got shot down in a hostility. So all that to 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.760 say is we got to give credit to those aircrews 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.440 because when they punch out, that aircraft is going several 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.239 hundred miles an hour and they are basically shot out 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.360 by small rocket out of that aircraft into the air 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.840 at a very high altitude, typically not sure what profile 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.919 they were on here, and so it is a shock 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.840 to the system. And many times folks that ejected help 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.880 they'll have lifelong back injuries. Now, the key thing is mindset, 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.040 so they have to keep their wits about them. Yeah, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.919 there's the mechanics that coming out of the aircraft float 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.880 down on their parachute hitting the ground, and again they're 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.880 not hitting a prepared drop zone. There's no telling where 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.840 they're hitting. So it's a shock to the system. All 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.760 that to say credit to them because the training upstream 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.040 to have the mindset to keep their wisth about them 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.840 is what helps carry the day because they had to 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.720 hit the ground and follow the tactics, techniques and procedures 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.440 that are established so they could be rescued. So Scott, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.280 that's sort of a broad overview. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.480 Okay, And so yeah, I think with fil'll realize always 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.400 jumped out in the parachute. No, that the whole seat 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.280 part of the airframe there's attached to You're basically going 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.480 to chair when you land in that thing. I don't 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.840 know if that's Does that cause more pain? And did 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.440 they even train for that? I mean, I know that 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.200 they're simulators like I did a thing whereas in the 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.360 dunk tank and they upside down for a helicopter landing water, 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:53.800 But do they simulate that? 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.040 Is there any way to practice that? 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.480 There's no way to practice The actual truth is I 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.560 understand that the impact on the on the finest is 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.320 north of seven g's. Yeah, and so all that to 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.120 say it many times causes permanent injury, as they have found. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.080 So now let's talk about when they hit the ground 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.080 and what happens next if we could, Yeah, now what 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.000 I want the listeners to know is long before this, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.320 there are forces that train equipp and they are literally 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.600 standing by what do we have, like ten thousand plus 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.040 targets we've hit. They're standing by to launch on a 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.160 moment's notice to rescue a down aircrewman while these operations 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.120 are going on. So every flight that's up there, there's 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.400 a force setting there, you know, sort of like a 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.080 you know, a reaction force, and they are watching and 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.200 waiting for the word to go. So once that happened, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.159 that put into motion. But it's very dynamic because now 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.000 you've got to adjust to the specific threat and there's 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.080 a lot of technicalities that go into place that are 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.200 very classified. But the key is that aircrewman hits the 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.679 ground and he's got to follow the established procedures to 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.920 optimize the probability or we say recover in this case 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.440 because he's not in custody yet that would be a rescue, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.800 but it's a recovery operation. So there's literally elements within 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.600 the United States Air Force, augmented by other services and 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.400 services and government agencies that do that. It is very, 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.839 very sophisticated. In this case, a lot of presses have 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.600 been given that my old unit, STILL Team six was 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.240 selected to be the force on the ground because of 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.680 the threat. So the combat search and rescue element was 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.240 now added to a STILL Team six to be the 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.840 force on the ground to actually get the down to 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.560 air crewmen. In the second case, the one that basically 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.560 evaded for a while four years rescue. So there's some 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.640 pieces that went on there that even talking about in 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.240 the other President want to I don't want to give 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.120 away some of our capabilities to help the enemy, But 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.720 a lot of credit goes to everything that happened upstream 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.640 in all the development of the United States has But 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.760 in the end it was also decisiveness. The commanders on 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.240 the ground have got to act very quickly. You can't 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.000 get behind on this or the enemy will get a 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.840 hold of you. Because it is a profit danned absolute 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.400 It is a basically a winning day for Iran if 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:24.400 they were able to get there. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:24.760 Sure. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.120 Look look what happened with President Carter, right. I mean 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.440 when your capture, when you shoot down aircraft and capture airman, 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.880 then it becomes a nightmare at this point and the 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.440 optics are terrible. But we pulled a miracle off. And 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.680 this is something I say a miracle from this side 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.359 of it, I guess. But in your line of work, ED, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.080 when you're a Seal Team six operator, you guys go, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.800 it's just what we do at gall right on the 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.080 show this morning on Scott's Loan here starting us off 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.200 with some good news about what's happening, and that was 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.680 a crew members shot down on Friday. The second one 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.240 was rescued just a few while I can almost say 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.440 a few hours ago. It feels like it was pretty intense. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.920 The colonel, by the way, so this is the weapons officer. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.120 He moved away from his ejection point before he activated 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.919 his rescue beacon and then he hiked I think a 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.440 seven thousand foot ridge line and wedged himself into crevis. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.200 One of the reasons why we would do that, I guess, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.720 activating the beacon after you've scaled a seven thousand foot 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.880 climb and then was able to wedge yourself in a 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:21.920 crevice to hide. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.920 What are the tactics of that, well. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:30.120 Because of the adversary capability, because remember I ran as 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.640 being assisted as it is being told on the press. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.200 I can't go in any further detail, but it appears 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.400 China and Russia and North three are assisting them. Even 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.440 though those are highly sophisticated beacons tracking devices, you have 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.400 to be worried that the adversary can locate that. So 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.320 getting out of the key thing. Back to that mindset 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.560 as for he went through the shock of ejection, and 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.360 again credit to him and the training that went upstream. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.840 You know before this ever happened. He's got to get 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.920 out of that area rapidly because the local populace, some 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.480 of them may report it. That's where the Iranian forces 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.680 are going to flow to. So he's got to get 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.920 moving quit to get out of that particular zone. So 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.400 to make it more difficult. So to your point that 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.239 beacon is going to be based on again tactics, techniques 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.840 and procedures, is it is going to be activated when 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.160 the circumstances are optimal for us to track him and 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.720 find him using all the capabilities of the US military 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.440 and government agency. And something else I want to add 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.200 here is just think about it. To the credit you 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.160 gave the Field Team six in our sister unit Delta, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:44.360 that is not regular special operations units in the right term, Scott, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.680 thank you for using it. This was a special operation. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.760 Special Forces of specifically Screenbery are this is the element 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.160 went in there. I want the listeners to remember this. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.720 Every minute of every hour of every day of every 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.280 week of every month of every year. These units set 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.600 alert to conduct these kind of sensitive activities and operations 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.880 all over the world, and just think about it. They 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.680 do not I know, it's going to bust your bubble. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.640 They do not always make the media, fortunately, and that's 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.440 the world they live in. And I want to give 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.200 you sort of a sort of a framework. They live 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.160 in the world between peace and war, in a gap 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.439 where you're always at war. But it's in the shadows. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.600 That is not hype, it's not bravado. It's what our 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.440 nations asked us to do. It is a very high 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.920 commitment that they have and a higher level of performance. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.080 But there's a lot to celebrate here. It's not just 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.720 guys with guns. These guys are smart. They helped plan 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.880 to conduct this operation and they prevailed against all odds. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:47.880 A lot to celebrate. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.080 Yeah, yeah, it was Seal Team six, as you mentioned, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.400 Delta Force and Rangers are on standby for this mission. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.559 But also we got to credit the CIA. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.560 They ran a disinformation campaign simultaneously with the military operation. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.360 How tightly coordinate does it have to be? And and 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.600 how does that? How do you how do you coordinate that? 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.640 And and by the way, with it's not like you 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.280 knew this was going to happen, as they didn't have 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.240 this in the in their pocket to pull out. I mean, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.320 you guys planning and you make it up on the fly. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.600 There's no, there's not much intel. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.360 No, no, no, I want to know, I want to slightly. No, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.439 we have the contingent. We always plan in these most 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.839 dangerous course of action. So right there on a dry 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.800 race board, and I've been there a thousand times. We 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.720 have in these most dangerous course of action shot down 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:34.679 air crew behind enemy line, unlocated. We've been't We've already 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.440 got the contingency. We we've got to play just like 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.640 a football team. But the dynamics to your point of 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.559 putting it in play and when it happened, because now 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.360 you've got to adjust there really what's going on on 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.600 the ground, right and you have the least empowered as 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.360 opposed to the previous administration because you time is against you. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.440 But you know you just mentioned something with respect to 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.280 you know, those particular units uh working with our I'm 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.240 gonna just say generally our agency brothers. And I'll tell 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.960 you the best chow at the cafeterias in the Washington, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.679 DC area is at the CIA headquarters, at the food 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.560 course there. I can vouch for that. I can say 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.480 no more. I can say no more. But they have 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.040 pretty good eating right there. Right. But but we worked 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.560 with them. Remember I just I just mentioned there's that 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.400 band between peace and war. This isn't hype, this isn't bravado. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.640 It exists, so our nation complete safety in their bed 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.880 at night. We work with our agency partners all over 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.800 the world. It isn't new to us. So hats off 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.439 to the agency. Because you hit, you hit a key point. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.719 There was a bit of a diversion, a distraction. Oh 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.680 we found him. Now, you remember, Scott. I've said on 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:48.000 the radio station before, things are not always what they seen. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:53.160 So purposely we use this information and misinformation on the 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.920 battlefield to confuse our enemies. They do the same to 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.960 ut But you're right, it was very clever. It's not 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.080 just guys with guns that show up and do bad 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.640 things to bad people who deserve it. There's a lot 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.520 of intellectual activity. That's what I'll say about Seal Team 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.640 six and Delta. Those guys are. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.760 Smart at gal Ryan take us to the pilot's PERCEPTI 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.920 thirty six hours, he's injured by the way, hikes to 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.480 a seven thousand foot ridge line, wedges in a crevice 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.319 of automates, his beacon. What is a pilot carrying on 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.800 him or her at that time? What equipment do they 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.920 have ready to go on their person? And how long 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:28.600 can they survive? 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.120 A great question the listeners can basically do you know 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:37.120 a quick search of normal Air Force aircrew combat equipment 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.280 survival VEST He's going to have his deacon, He's going 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.560 to have his pistol. He's going to have fire starting equipment. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:49.839 He's gonna have also the ability to catch game if necessary, 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.520 if it's a long term survival. He's going to have 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.319 signaling devices some that I can't go into that are 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.959 classified with respect to can only be seen with certain 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.760 source of optics. So that VEST is going to be 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.679 under all his other equipment. But he's the key thing 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.400 I want to emphasize here is his mindset of maturity. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.120 That in his mindset, it's like running a football player 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.920 taking that three point shot. He's got to have the 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.800 ability to act because what we've seen in the past 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.640 is is they get on the ground, they get disoriented, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.320 they you know, they become overcome by the dramatic impact 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.679 of the ejection. So credit to him. And also I 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.520 want to point out I don't know if he's a 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.240 full bird colonel, not likely, probably a lieutenant colonel. At 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.880 his senior leadership level he was. Probably he might have 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.080 been the squadron commander or the number two. He would 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.719 have been a gold mine for the operations that have 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.319 gotten this, not only for propaganda, but the interrogation he 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.560 would have gone through to try to get, you know, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.800 capabilities that the US has. Because a good thing to 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.199 celebrate here for the listeners. We are fighting a twenty 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.480 first century plus war. The key thing about what's going 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.360 on in Iran, in addition to taking one of the 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.319 full horsemen of apocalypse off the table and their ability 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.400 to get a nuclear weapon i e. The Aatola was 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.440 a suicide bomber looking for a new full stop. Kevn said, 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.520 that is we're pushing to terrence poker chips back on 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:25.520 the table with China, with Russia and with North Korea. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.840 That is one of the major outcomes of what's going 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.080 on in Iran, and again we're north of ten thousand 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.360 targets hit. I mean, this is the likelihood of a 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.960 bird strike when you start doing the statistical probabilities of 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.960 what it could occur, when you have that many aircraft 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.960 mine and that many capabilities put you at risk. So 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.760 a lot to celebrate here in our great nation this 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.800 week as crews the recovered, but continue to pray for them. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.440 They're in harms way and they are doing things to 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:01.160 make our nation safer as a result of these Operation Scott, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:01.680 thank you. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:02.000 Yeah. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.560 I think the one of the more fascinating things to 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.960 me at Gal Ryan is that they launched this rescue 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.800 operation launch from a airstrip twenty five miles inside of Iran. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.120 That was, as you mentioned, pre position for contingencies. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:15.720 How's that? 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.640 How long's take something like that, an asset like that 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.440 to develop and there could all be not that many 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.920 people know it exists, and certainly not the Iranians. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.440 Well again I can't, I won't the bullet anything classified, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.000 but I wanted you to think about it like a 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.040 football team and they've got Hey, we've got this one 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.920 hell Mary path. We're going to practice that practice that practice. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.720 It We're not exactly sure what yard line will be on, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.760 we're not exactly sure of the weather conditions, we're not 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.040 exactly sure the defense they'll be running. But here's our 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.680 base play. So you have the base play and I'm 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.560 sure that makes sense to you, or like the three 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.520 point shots from the corner. You've got your base play, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.200 but you make some final adjustments right there at the 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.280 last puddle and then out you go. But what this 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:04.560 relies on is is the is the intellectual ability of 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.720 these warriors to do this. And I'll say it again, Yeah, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.240 these guys are good in the weight rooms. Yeah they can. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.920 They can run fast, they can swim far, and they're 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.280 very strong and sick. But their mindset and their intelligence 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.400 is what carries the day because you've got to keep 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.160 your wits about this. Does that make sense? 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:23.120 Yeah, yeah, totally. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.320 I mean, you know, we tend to get tunnel vision 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.880 and are you know, breathe differently and our heart race 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.440 is under pressure and yeah, if you're at that level 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.240 of elite operator, you've got to be able to control 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.280 all that stuff. The President called this one of the 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.040 most daring rescue operations in US history. You've done this 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.760 in real time, ed Gil Ryan, how far up the 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:40.720 list is a rank. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.400 Well, it'll be it'll be way up there. When the 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.040 books of movies coming about about this, it's going to 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.680 be a patriotic explosion because of all the things that 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.200 had to happen, because there's there's so many unknowns in this. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.640 And you're exactly right. I spent my career planning these 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.120 contingencies and conduct in what you would call very sensitive activities, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.360 not exactly like this, but the same kind of high stakes, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.280 high risk scenarios in that band between peace and war 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.520 where you're at war all the time, when you're at 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.720 Steel King six or Delta or some other select units 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.040 and activity in our nation so we can stay safe. Oh, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.600 it'll be very high up there, and it's going to 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.880 be jaw dropping. It is going to be absolutely jaw dropping. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.800 And this is gonna be one of the families you're 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.080 gonna want it to go to. And I guarantee you 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.000 will increase recruiting for both officer and listed again one 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.560 of this movie in this book comes out. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:35.920 Guarantee, Yeah, I get it. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.199 Ed gll Ryan running against Thomas Massey in Kentucky for 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.639 that Concresdal seat with some of the most bizarre ads 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.679 I've ever seen. Talk about a disinformation campaign. Ed you 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.240 just laid out killing the enemies and airstrikes and every 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.760 you don't sound very woke. 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.360 Well, I'll say you that the veteran community has basically 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.359 told me, I guess I should have got three Bronze 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:02.160 Star medals and two combat jump badges with bronze stars based. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.560 On that ai AD he's running that. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.639 I've got lack of courage running all veterans for clarity, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.600 it is an insult that anyone has has put their 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.680 life on the line to include leading others in combat. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.840 So all that to say, that's all the Liz Cheney 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:20.040 of Kentucky. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:25.000 Has after fourteen years in Congress, That's all he has 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.399 is an ai AD to attack the only retired Navy 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.280 seal officer that serves our nation. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.160 On seven seal teams in units include quite the Steal 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.600 Team six. So all that to say, his desperation is 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.800 only exceeded by this honesty. And again it's an insult 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:42.720 to anyone to serve. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.560 He is Ed Gollryan seeking your vote for this congressional race, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.439 and the Commonwealth Retired Seal Team six Army ranger and 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.640 could go on for probably another five ten minutes about 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.280 all the awards and decorations he received. Serve our country honorably, Ed, 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.560 thanks for jumping on the show and laying this out 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:04.240 this morning. It's absolutely fascinating and some good news finally 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.640 in a world it seems like we're lacking good news, 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:07.400 all the best. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:07.680 And good luck. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.400 Yes, thank you so much. I gotta get some farm 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.560 work done. Thank you a little listeners, God bless them. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.840 Yes, sir, thank you, Ed, appreciate it. Let me get 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.879 news in the picture here in just seconds. It's going 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:18.919 to be a hell of a movie. Can't wait for 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.440 it be on Netflix at about two hours seven hundred Wow.