Geoff Dardia joins Mike Ritland to expose the real story behind Afghanistan, the missed chance to take out Bin Laden, and how politics destroyed 20 years of sacrifice.

Dardia is a former Master Sergeant and Green Beret who lived it for real — from kicking doors in hostile countries to hunting bad guys under night vision.

Before that?
He was supposed to be a Navy SEAL — training shoulder-to-shoulder with Mike Ritland — until a medical issue derailed that path. Instead of quitting, Geoff took the fight to Special Operations, racking up multiple deployments as a Weapons Sergeant, Intel Sergeant, and Ops Sergeant.

Since leaving active duty, Geoff’s been on a different kind of warpath — fighting for the health and survival of the special operations community. As the founding director of SOF Health Initiatives for the Task Force Dagger Foundation, he’s tackling the issues nobody wants to talk about — traumatic brain injuries, cancer, and the hidden wounds killing more operators than enemy bullets ever did.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
02:59 - How Long Has It Been? - Swapping Shared Stories from BUD/S & Hell Week
15:26 - A Scrappy Kid From Maine - How My Mobster Dad's Navy Career Turned Me On To The Military
23:07 - Congratulations, You Were ALMOST A SEAL! - Getting Rolled at Hell Week with Mike Ritland
34:50 - The Navy Wouldn't Take Me! - Training To Go Back to The Navy
47:28 - The Pinnacle Of My Career - Kinetic Multi-Day Gunfights In Country
01:08:28 - A 16mm Mortar On Target - Misadventures in Long-Range Munitions
01:20:54 - Pulling Out of Afghanistan - Reflecting On U.S. Foreign Policy On The Ground
01:37:56 - Dog Days - Deploying with Canine RAMBO
01:41:54 - Trump Pauses Tariffs - How Crypto, The Stock Market, & FOMO Are Affecting Everyday Americans
02:01:59 - More Important Than Hardware - Making America Healthy with Geoff Dardia
02:25:54 - What's Next? - Focusing on Health and Wellness at Task Force Dagger
02:25:54 - Thanks For the Good Times, Brother - Salutations in Shared Service

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Support Geoff Dardia -

Website - https://www.taskforcedagger.org/sof-health/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-dardia/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sof_health_initiative/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081804750883

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