SEAL Team 6 Jailed in Serbia Daniel Corbett

About this video

Mike Ritland interviews Daniel Corbett, a former Navy SEAL with 17 years of service across SEAL Team Five, SEAL Team Six, and Reserve Team 17. Corbett recounts his pathway from joining at 18 through BUD/S Class 244, two Iraq and Philippines deployments with Team Five, and his experience screening for and attending Green Team. He describes combat operations, cultural experiences overseas, and the political and performance dynamics within special operations selection.

Key takeaways

• Corbett attributes his success in high-attrition SEAL training partly to realistic expectations; he observed many candidates arriving unprepared, which explained the 80-85% failure rate
• During his 2005 Iraq deployment with Team Five, Corbett’s platoon conducted approximately 124 direct action missions, mostly one-sided engagements catching targets off-guard, with limited significant firefights
• Corbett describes Green Team selection as both a test of tactical competency and a political ‘Survivor’-like social dynamic, but emphasizes that exceptional performance can make a candidate ‘undeniable’ regardless of politics

Episode details: published July 1, 2024 · 322.9K views · 3:39:30 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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