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This is a true story about the operation \u201cPineapple Express\u201d and helping Afghani allies escape Afghanistan. In this Passion Struck podcast episode, John R Miles interviews retired Navy SEAL Dan O\u2019Shea on how he guided a family of fourteen to safety, successfully evading the Taliban. Dan describes the harrowing details of their 96 hours of terror and what it took to get the family safely to the Kabul airport. This is just one story out of more than 700 people the \u201cPineapple Express\u201d helped save.\nLike this? Please subscribe, and join me on my new platform for peak performance, life coaching, and personal growth: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnRMiles/.\nOperation Recovery Website: https://www.operationrecovery.org/.\nEpisode Highlights With Retired Navy SEAL Dan O\u2019Shea\nIn this powerful episode, John R. Miles and Navy SEAL Dan O\u2019Shea discuss getting involved in Operation Pineapple Express. He tells the incredible story of survival as he guided an Afghani Allie, who is an American Citizen, and his family of fourteen escape Afghanistan and evade the Taliban over a 96-hour window of sheer heroics.\nHe talks about his decision to become a Navy SEAL, the biggest lessons he learned from going through BUDs, the organizational structure of the teams, his tour of duty in Iraq where he participated in over 400 hostage rescues, as well as his experience in Afghanistan and those Afghanis who served alongside him. Why he is adamant about never leaving a soldier behind. He ends by discussing the Frogman swim he founded to benefit the wounded and fallen Navy SEALs and their families.\nNew Interviews with the World\u2019s GREATEST high achievers will be posted every Tuesday with a Momentum Friday inspirational message!\nESCAPING AFGHANISTAN SHOW NOTES\n0:00 Dan O\u2019Shea Teaser\n1:09 Introducing Episode and Dan O\u2019Shea\n6:36 His path from the Naval Academy to BUDs\n9:38 How he learned your attitude is everything\n11:31 Competing in the ECO-Challenge (World\u2019s Toughest Race)\n13:00 Explaining the organization of the SEAL teams\n14:56 His time coordinate hostage rescue in Iraq\n20:04 Examples of High profile kidnappings\n23:07 His time as a counterinsurgency advisor in Afghanistan\n25:38 The Green Berets from the movie \u201c12 Strong\u201d on ever of 9/11\n29:42 How the Afghani interpreters risked their life for Americans\n32:53 The origins of Operation Pineapple Express\n39:33 Honoring his promise to the Afghani Allies he served with\n42:30 The story of how Dan O\u2019Shea saved a family of fourteen in escaping Afghanistan\n101:58 How his employer Equitus is supporting Pineapple Express\n105:13 Founding the Frogman swim and its purpose\nQUOTES BY NAVY SEAL DAN O\u2019SHEA\xa0\n\n"I am a SEAL. We have a combat record; we\u2019ve never left a man behind on a battle ever. That\u2019s our legacy."\n"When you go to combat with someone, that\u2019s a relationship on a brotherhood level that you can\u2019t compare to anything."\n"We\u2019re doing this to honor the promise we made to these people, these Afghan partners who risked their all for us, and they understand leave no one behind."\n\u2013 Dan O\u2019Shea\nENGAGE DAN O\u2019SHEA\nCommander Dan O\u2019Shea, a retired Navy SEAL, had more than 25 years of special operations experience, including multiple Middle East (Iraq/Afghanistan) and Africa tours following 9/11. Commander O\u2019Shea graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1991 and has a Master\u2019s in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego. A subject matter expert in Islamic terrorism, counter-insurgency (COIN), and hostage rescue operations, O\u2019Shea was a COIN advisor for the Commander International Security Assistance Force (COMISAF) Afghanistan from 2011-2012.\nO\u2019Shea established and served as the Hostage Working Group (HWG) coordinator at the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, from 2004 to 2006. He expertly managed the inter-agency coordination of more than 400 kidnapping incidents. Arriving at the height of the hostage-taking campaign that targeted more than 50 foreigners per month. By the end of his tour, foreign kidnappings in Iraq w