Chris Osman Breaks Silence on the Green Beret Raid Gone Horribly Wrong

About this video

Chris Osman, a former Navy SEAL, recounts his deployment to Afghanistan where his platoon relieved another SEAL team in Kandahar and worked alongside coalition special operations forces. He describes being tasked with a battle damage assessment mission to a CIA-built cave complex on the Pakistan border after Green Berets were reportedly removed following a controversial raid. What was supposed to be a 12-hour mission turned into 9.5 days when Osman’s team discovered over 75 caves containing what he was told was the largest weapons cache found since World War I, culminating in a near-fatal incident where a grenade he threw into a cave detonated a munitions cache and nearly killed him.

Key takeaways

• Osman describes how Green Berets from 5th Group were allegedly asked to leave Afghanistan within 48 hours after a pre-dawn raid where, according to the story he heard, they ’ended up lighting up a bunch of people who were not supposed to be lit up'
• Osman’s team was sent to assess a cave complex that had been built by the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war and had never been successfully penetrated by Soviet forces, but found the recent bombing campaign had largely missed its targets
• Osman recounts throwing a grenade into a cave that sympathetically detonated a hidden munitions cache, creating a fireball that blew him into a bomb crater and separated him from his rifle, leaving his team believing he had been incinerated

Episode details: published October 17, 2025 · 30.1K views · 13:33 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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