Former DEVGRU (SEAL Team 6) operator Mike Sarraille didn’t take the easy road. He enlisted in the Marine Corps, earned his place as a Recon Marine and Scout Sniper, then commissioned through the Navy and completed BUD/S.
He landed in SEAL Team 3 with Task Unit Bruiser, the most decorated special operations task unit of the Iraq War, and led combat operations through the Battle of Ramadi in 2006 and the Battle of Sadr City in 2008. He later was selected for DEVGRU, joining Gold Squadron. Ten combat deployments later, he came home with a Silver Star, six Bronze Stars, and numerous other awards.
He was also there the day Michael Monsoor jumped on a grenade. That moment, standing feet away from a teammate who gave everything so others could live, is the kind of story that never leaves a person. Sarraille carried it forward the way operators do: by leading, by teaching the next generation of officers, and later by translating those lessons into business.
After 20 years in special operations he founded Talent War Group, built it into a leadership and executive search firm that was acquired, and now serves as Chief Talent Officer at Overwatch Mission Critical.
He's an author (The Talent War, The Everyday Warrior, Scarlett’s Big Shot), speaks on culture and high performing teams, and still chases hard things, including four world records skydiving onto all seven continents in under seven days.
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🇬🇧🏴🏴The Muslims invaders took over and ran Spain for almost 800 Years but a tiny band of devout Christian warriers held out in the Nothern west mountains.
They never surrendered our lost the faith and after 40 Generations they destroyed the Islamic invasders and took back their country. THIS will be the story of Britain.
We may be forced to the mountains but we will NEVER Surrender this sacred land to Islam. We will fight to the last drop of our blood and we shall be victorious
No Surrender! Are YOU with US?
Both Communism and the globalists’ financial empire are run from a board room in the City of London.
Bessent and Trump have found a third way, which threatens both the communist revival and the globalists’ shadow offshore system.
From Iran’s shadow banks to Japan’s yen, could this be the opening move of a new global economic order?
Senior Chief Douglas “Mike” Day was a Navy SEAL, Silver Star recipient, and a warrior who endured what every medical expectation said should have been unsurvivable.
On 6 April 2007, as assault force commander for Naval Special Warfare Task Unit-Fallujah, he led a raid aimed at capturing a senior al-Qaeda figure in Anbar Province. He stepped first through the doorway of a cramped 12x12 room where four insurgents waited in ambush.
The volley hit him hard. 16 rounds punched through his body, arms, legs, groin, abdomen, buttocks, nearly severing his left thumb. 11 more slammed into his body armor, plates engineered to defeat a single 7.62-mm round before failing; every subsequent impact should have been fatal. A grenade detonated close by and knocked him out.
In the instant the bullets struck, his mind fixated on his family. Then muscle memory took command. He kept fighting, shifted to his pistol after his rifle was knocked away, and finished the remaining fighters in the room. When he came to, he directed Iraqi scouts to safeguard the women and children inside the building and used a fallen teammate’s radio to call for extraction, still not fully grasping how badly he himself was hurt.
Rather than be carried, he walked to the waiting helicopter, convinced being lifted would only make the pain worse. For that action he received the Silver Star and spent the next two years recovering physically. In 2020 he told the full story in his memoir Perfectly Wounded. The deepest injuries, however, remained unseen.
Day carried the burden of that night and everything that followed for years afterward, the kind of invisible wound that never heals the way a bullet hole does. In March 2023 that weight finally claimed him.
Naval Special Warfare Command later put it plainly, his courage and grit still set the standard the community upholds. A man who absorbed 27 rounds and then fought a second, quieter war, one too many warriors still wage alone.
Rest easy, Senior Chief.
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Gunnery Sergeant Tate Jolly, and later Master Sergeant Jolly of 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force), stands as one of the most remarkable figures to emerge from the post-9/11 special operations world.
A Marine who worked his way into Delta Force, he earned the Navy Cross, the Marine Corps’ second highest award for valor, on the same night that became infamous worldwide.
In the early hours of September 11–12, 2012, Jolly was serving as an Assistant Team Leader with a joint task force in Benghazi, Libya, when the US diplomatic compound and the nearby CIA annex came under prolonged attack. Mortars, small arms fire, and RPGs rained down for hours. Ambassador Chris Stevens and Information Officer Sean Smith were already dead.
As the fighting stretched into the morning, Jolly and Army Master Sergeant David Halbruner moved through the chaos, extracting roughly thirty American civilians trapped under fire. Time and again Jolly deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire to guide unarmed personnel to safety and treat the critically wounded. His composure under fire was later credited as a decisive factor in the mission’s success. Former SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods did not survive that night. Jolly did, and he never stopped working.
For those actions he was awarded the Navy Cross. For years the official citation listed him only as an anonymous gunnery sergeant; his name was withheld because he was operating in support of a Delta Force detachment, and the sensitivity of that role kept his identity out of the public record.
It remains a rare and telling case, a Marine infantryman pipeline pulled into Tier One work with “The Unit” itself, one of the clearest demonstrations on record that the path from the Marine Corps into the highest tier of American special operations was not only possible, it had already been done.
The efficiency of killing in Tier 1.
In his book Unafraid, DEVGRU (Seal Team 6) operator Eddie Penney recalled a mission where he trimmed his kit to save weight, swapping out his HK416 for the lighter and more compact MP7.
It nearly cost him.
While on a mission, after putting multiple rounds into an enemy's body, the man didn't drop, and only a final shot through the eye put him down for good. Penney then made the decision to stop using the MP7. He went back to the HK416, a rifle he knew could end an engagement faster.
For Penney and his fellow operators at DEVGRU, the efficiency of killing eventually created a different kind of problem. When rifle kills became routine, some men began pushing the limits.
Operators started going for pistol shots and knife kills rather than using their primary weapon. They began looking for a harder challenge in the most dangerous environment on earth.
It didn’t take long before they realized that particular game wasn’t worth playing.
From 1776-1965 the overwhelming majority of new immigrants to the United States were mandated by law to be from Europe.
That’s 189 years.
Then in 1965 the Hart-Cellar act changed that. Do you think that change has worked out?
DEVGRU 5 + Years & 5 + Deployment to Lead 6 Man Teams
A DEVGRU operator, widely known as a member of SEAL Team Six, is a Tier 1 special mission unit operative for the US Navy within the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Tasked with covert operations, counterterrorism, and hostage rescue, these elite sailors undergo an arduous selection process called "Green Team"
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Jason Everman. Guitarist in Nirvana, bassist in Soundgarden. Kicked out of both. Most people would have called that rock bottom. Jason called it a starting point.
In 1994 he put down the guitar and enlisted in the Army, eventually serving with the 2nd Ranger Battalion and then completing the Special Forces Qualification Course, deploying to both Afghanistan and Iraq as a Green Beret with 3rd Special Forces Group.
After leaving the service he went to Tibet, studied in a Buddhist monastery, came back, and then earned a philosophy degree from Columbia University with a letter of recommendation from General Stanley McChrystal.
Nirvana. Soundgarden. Army Rangers. Green Berets. Columbia University. There is no template for a life like that.
Sergeant Major Mike Vining. One of the original members of Delta Force, joining the newly formed unit in 1978 as its first EOD specialist.
A man who looked like he did your taxes and operated like a ghost.
Operation Eagle Claw in Iran, where he was aboard EC-130E Bladder Bird #4 when a helicopter crashed into it and barely made it out alive.
Grenada, sitting on a toolbox to avoid getting shot through the floor of his Black Hawk.
Desert Storm. Haiti. 31 years of service, most of it in Delta, doing things that still do not have public names attached to them.
They even made a Pokemon card out of him. A legend in every way.
The mission doesn't end when you're tired; it ends when it's complete. Keep your eyes on the objective and push through the fatigue. #MondayMotivation#NavySEALFoundation
Always remember U.S. Navy SEAL, SO2 Nathan "Gage" Ingram, who went missing in action on 12 JAN 2024 after heroic efforts to rescue his teammate SO1 Christopher J Chambers. The 2 Navy SEALs and their team were conducting a night-time seizure of a vessel illegally transporting advanced lethal aid from Iran to resupply Houthi rebel forces in Yemen. In recognition of Gage's sacrifice, the 89th Texas Legislature designates January 12 as "Nathan Gage Ingram Day" in the state of Texas. The resolution specifies that this designation will remain in effect until the 10th anniversary of its final passage, in accordance with Section 391.004(d) of the Texas Government Code. It serves as a tribute to a courageous Texan whose selfless service embodies the highest ideals of the United States military and the state's values of honor, duty, and sacrifice.
Americans are reaching a breaking point.
Fraud fatigue is now a very real thing.
People are not only questioning the system, but are completely done with the system and considering not even paying taxes.
Why should we? It only gets sent to Somali Pirates, and fraudsters and wasted by the people who are selected to represent us.
Is this the turning point?