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Chad Robichaux: Force Recon Marine, ‘Safest Place Is In God’s Will’ · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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defending biblical Christianity.
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No topic off limits.
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And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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Hi, friends.
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Family and Christ.
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Thanks so much for watching, sharing the podcast, and there are some guests that I wish
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we had an hour.
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And today's guest is one of them.
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I want to direct you to a couple of websites.
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First of all, Chad Robeshow will be joining us in a minute.
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You got a brand new book on, I'm talking hot off the presses.
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It's called A Mission Without Borders, why a father and son risked it all for people
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of Ukraine.
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And also, we want to direct you to the website, MightyOaksPrograms.org, MightyOaksPrograms,
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and Chad's website, ChadRobeshow.com.
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And we'll talk about his podcast, and we just want to bring him on right now, brother.
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Thank you so much for all you do.
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Thank you for your time today.
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Good to see you.
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Absolutely.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Oh, thank you.
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Well, first of all, the podcast.
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How often do you do it?
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How can people hear it?
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Yeah, it's called The Resilience Show.
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I do it weekly.
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This new episode drops every Monday.
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We have some incredible guests, Terry Krue, Sean Ryan, Kaylee McEnany, every week.
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We just have some phenomenal guests.
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And we talk about topics that make sure media that typically cover and how people can
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more resilient in this ever changing world that we find ourselves in.
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You mentioned Terry Krue's, and I see there's a benefit coming up the fourth annual Warrior
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Gala, and that's on MightyOaksPrograms.org.
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And I just want to read the description and have you tell us a little bit more.
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It says The MightyOaks Foundation is a faith-based veteran service organization that teaches
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combat veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress, how to get beyond combat trauma and
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live their lives in the manner God intended.
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Tall order, brother, but I got your newsletter.
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I got a lot of testimonies from people that have been through it, that are raving about
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it.
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Share a little bit more, please.
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Yeah, well, about 14 years ago is when we MightyOaks began.
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It began from me doing my eight deployment staff, Afghanistan, and special operations coming
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home, following my face, and just some amazing people coming around me to help me restore
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my family, overcome my battle with suicide, and not become another veteran suicide statistic.
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And through all the things that people helped me with, nothing was more profound than
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it, and being led to a relationship with Jesus and aligning my life for the life I was
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created to live, and finding hope, and restoration, and purpose there.
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And that purpose really manifested for me, and this is deep burden to God, put on my heart
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to pay it forward.
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And that was, that was again, 14 years ago.
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And since then, we've had over 7,000 people have come to this recovery program.
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We do about $8 million a year in programming for absolutely free to active duty service
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members, veterans, first responders, spouses.
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We have a recovery program.
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I mean, that's our recovery program at these places, these amazing branches we have around
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a country.
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We do about 50 of a year.
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And while we had 7,000 people over the last 14 years, we're doing about 1,000 per year
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now.
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And again, we even pay for their flights.
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We have a resiliency program where I go to bases around the world and speak on resiliency,
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mentally, physically, socially, spiritually.
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I've spoken about half million troops in the last decade at bases around the world, and
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really just given a message of hope and resiliency through a relationship with Jesus.
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And we have a book that we give out, some of the books I've written, we've given out
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over about 400,000 copies of our books now to the troops.
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And we have an advocacy program, or even like next month, I'll be testifying the pro
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Congress on faith-based programs.
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President Trump had appointed me to be a chairman of the White House faith-based coalition
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and veterans affairs to make sure our troops have access to faith-based programs.
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And the last thing we do at Mighty Oaks is an international program where we take the
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same program to do here, and we share with our ally partners around the world and just
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help them to find the same hope that we have here.
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So.
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You have an amazing story, amazing testimony.
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I mean, as you said, you were confronted with your own suicide, you know, your thoughts
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about that and how deep that goes and you overcame.
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You know all about PTSD, you were in combat, Marine Corps veteran, what is a force recon
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to explain that USMC force recon veteran?
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Explain that real quick.
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Yeah, well, I mean, every branch of the military has their own special operations, you
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know, maybe he's known for their, the Navy SEALs and the Army has the, the Green Berets
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and, you know, the special operations component of the Rangers, Air Force has, you know,
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Paris, you and cop-back controllers and the Marine Corps has two, the Marine Corps has a
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recon and then it's up to your recon as force recon and then Marsox.
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So I was a, I was a force recon Marine, a certain special operations in that capacity.
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I tried out for a JSOC task force to join special operations command task force and represented
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the Marine Corps at JSOC, which is the premier special operations that combines all the branches
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together.
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It's that kind of represents all the branches and then we have, you know, at that, at JSOC,
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you have Delta Force SEAL Team 6, a unit called task force orange and so I got to represent
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the Marine Corps at that command and, uh, ended aid deployment, staff can't stand in that
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capacity.
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Um, so, uh, President Trump said, by the way, it's right on your website, uh, thank you
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for sharing your incredible story, Chad.
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I extend my personal gratitude for you, your distinguished and steadfast service to our
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country.
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And I want to read one of the testimonies that I got from the Mighty Oaks programs.
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Brennan said I expected the course to be more heavily focused on PTSD and less on
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biblical principles.
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I'm glad I was mistaken.
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This has been the best veteran experience I've had.
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I've been blessed to work with other veteran organizations, but never has the foundation
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been the word of God.
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I needed this and I'm excited to share this experience with other veterans and first
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responders.
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So you're doing great work, Chad.
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Kudos brother.
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And let's go back to Afghanistan now.
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I think that's where now we're getting going to get to your brand new book coming up
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in a minute here.
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A mission without borders, but we've got to talk about saving a Z's, which is going to
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be a feature film now, hugely popular book, but the story is really amazing in and of
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itself.
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Please just, I know you can bullet point that.
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You're a pro at this point, how, you know, how the mission to help one became a calling
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to rescue thousands from the Taliban.
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Go ahead, brother.
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Share Chad.
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Yeah.
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Like you said, I could spend hours talking about the saving and Z's story.
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But, you know, as Z's and I had a very unique job when I went to that J sock unit, my job
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was a AFO advanced force operator, which means it's probably the closest thing in the military
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to be an undercover and you work in what's called a singleton capacity by yourself.
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But your partner is not a U.S. service member, it's a local national.
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And so for me, it was a Z's as Z's and I did, oh, eight of my deployments together, hundreds
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of missions going ahead of our unit to do all the clandestinal logistics to put our
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soldiers on target to capture a kill bag guys and that's, that was my job, you know.
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And so while I can tell you that a Z saved my life several times in combat, he probably
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saved my life every day, you know, trying to get me around different parts of the country
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and, you know, impact stand in Afghanistan to be in Taliban villages and not stand out
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and, you know, don't eat that.
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Don't walk there.
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Don't talk to that person.
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You know, if you talk right now, they're going to kill us.
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So he kept, he kept me alive and we became, obviously, we became very close friends and
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beyond him saved my life, but I didn't go back to base when operating and he went home.
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I went to his home.
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I lived in his home.
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I held his babies when they were born.
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So he was, he was my friend, you know, I just, my teammate is my friend.
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And so when Afghanistan would draw happening, President Biden announced a full and complete
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withdrawal of Afghanistan at a lot of problems with that, you know, first of all, yeah, I
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think regardless of what president it would have been to leave Afghanistan was a catastrophic
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mistake for national security and global security.
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I mean, this is, you're talking Bogom Air Force base, the most strategic place in a globe
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between Iraq, Iran, Russia and China.
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You don't forfeit that.
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You could have declared the war and terror over.
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You could have, and we could have supported that by the Afghan National Army like we have
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been doing since 2018, but you don't give up that base to enter international community
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who was participating there to fight global war and terrorism and was working the lie that
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American people were told that we need to end this war and we need to stop putting American
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troops in harm's way.
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The truth is we have 2500 troops there.
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We still have 80,000 troops in Japan since World War II.
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We have 30,000 troops in Germany since World War II.
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We have 30,000, 35,000 troops in South Korea and that 38 parallel keeping North Koreans
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from coming over, having our troops in places like this and putting contingencies like this,
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then keep us in war, prevents war.
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And so that was a lie of the American people.
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We withdrew in a way that was horrific that turned over the country of Afghanistan.
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We left Americans behind.
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We left our allies behind.
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We left 80 billion dollars in equipment behind.
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We're still giving, by the way, 85 million dollars a week to the Taliban while terrorism
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is growing in Afghanistan and we're giving that money to sanction people that are sanctioned
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on FBI's top 10 most wanted list, which is a complete atrocity.
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So all these things I didn't agree with, I couldn't change and I kind of went on a tangent
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there.
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But the one thing I could control and could have and could do even as a civilian was to
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go and get my friend Aziz.
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So I made a decision that while I was not happy with this draw, I was going to do my
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part to go get my friend.
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And so I called a couple of other special operations veterans that I knew well and trusted
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and said, Hey, I'm going to go get a disease.
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His wife and his six kids will you help and and and you know, I have some great friends
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with a lot of experience and we put together a team by 12 guys from you know, David Seos,
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to Green Berets, to Recon Marines, to got a few guys from CIA's paramilitary unit.
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And we put together a team and while we're planning this effort to go get a disease wife
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and six kids, we realized how tragic this really was.
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It was a call that came in or a text that came in that these group of orphans about 3,000
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orphans had just been abandoned and in that moment, we made a decision and God, I think
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burdened all of our hearts to say beyond disease, beyond his wife and six kids, let's go help
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as many people as we can, Americans, interpreters, allies.
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And so we laid forward to do that.
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As Aziz, six eight says, send me, we all had to send me the heart.
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And beyond that decision, God performed a miracle that allowed us not only rescue a disease
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of life and the six kids, but 17,000 other people, which by the way, it ended up being
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the largest civilian evacuation in American history.
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And I say that not to pat myself in the back here, I say that to do it, saying that this
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was a completely a God or a Christian miracle.
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I'm not smart enough by the way, okay, good enough to pull anything like that off.
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God, miracle off the miracle off the miracle to pull that off.
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It was absolutely amazing.
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And so the book captures that story and highlights some amazing people that I was proud
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to be served with.
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It glorifies God and we got it.
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And then it's been made made into a very big motion picture movie.
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And I'm very proud.
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I was nervous about that at first, but I'm very proud to see it's going to be done well
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and done right by some amazing, amazing folks.
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It's been a few amazing folks left in Hollywood.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So when can we be expecting that?
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Is that next year?
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Yeah, it probably looking at early to actually hit theaters probably early 2026.
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Okay.
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In the 2025, 2026 as window hit theaters, it's it's being produced now.
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And I can't say who, but there's some people involved in it and from acting to directing
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that most people listening would would would recognize who they are.
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It's great.
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Well, Chad, it's an amazing story.
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No wonder they're going to take the book and make a movie out of it.
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And if you, friends, if you go to Chad robachow.com and click on a bow, you can scroll down
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where it says, friend, you'll see a picture of a Z's and he's the man that spent.
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Did you say Chad eight missions with you and they were going to leave him behind?
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Well, we did eight deployments and over 100 missions with me.
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He served at America's top tier special operations unit.
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I believe that, you know, at JSOC, the number one special operations unit world, he served
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there for over 15 years.
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Wow.
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So him and all of our other allies, you know, we left, we left, we didn't only leave Americans
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behind, we left our allies, a wartime allies that we made a contractual promise to,
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for their service to us that we would give them a path to citizenship.
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It's called the SID, special among the visa process.
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And we, we, we, we did not keep our promise in that.
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And, you know, and they're being left behind, not only that, we left out by a metric
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system there with the Taliban, who has all of our interpreters, identities, locations
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and the Taliban is actually using that with taxpayer money, we're sending them this
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to hunt them down and murder them for what they did for us.
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So it's complete, it's complete betrayal to our allies and every service member, our
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service members are, I mean, look, beyond that, if you have any kind of heart and care
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about people, it's 40 million people in Afghanistan, 20 million women and little girls that are
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being sexually enslaved from the moment we left, you know, little girls those nine years
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old, they're being sexually enslaved, they lost all their human rights and, and we did
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that as a country and it should apologize for, it should make it right.
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But instead, we're sending $87 million a week to them, half of it in cash, that's going
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right to the Taliban and it's a, it's a complete atrocity.
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And, you know, I, I did my listening to call to their congressman and as a constituent
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say, you know, we're not okay with that.
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Well, we should, we, we need to take a brief pause here, but we can say elections have
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consequences and friends are going to have a big election coming up in November and
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we got to vote the communists and the socialists out.
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But more with Chad Robachow, when we come back on World View Matters, we'll talk about
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Thank you guys very much.
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It's been growing like crazy.
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Chad Robachow, I didn't get a chance to ask you about your MMA career.
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My goodness, it's just so vast, all the things that you've been a part of.
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And then you certainly don't look like a grandfather and you've got kids and grandkids.
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So let's go back and just share a little bit about the MMA career and just for our listeners
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that don't know about your background, share a little bit, that's just fascinating.
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Yeah, well, I mean, it's more short than something I did since I was five years old.
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So it was never any career I pursued.
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It was just something I did on the side as in the military.
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There's about three years of my life that I did at my peak of my fighting that I only
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fought.
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It was after my last club at Afghanistan and the part of my recovery time that I just
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solely fought and taught martial arts and I ended up being ranked number six in the
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world.
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I won a world title.
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I was 18 and two as a professional MMA fighter and my background is mainly grappling
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based martial arts since I was a kid wrestling and judo and traditional jiu-jitsu and in 1995
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I started Brazilian jitsu and then, you know, my fourth degree by boat in a cross-graced
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junior in Brazilian jitsu and loved that art.
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I still trained this day, but you know, once I started mighty yokes, it was time for me
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to retire at the 20 professional fights and did pretty good at it.
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And but I still trained and then it's something me and my sons have done.
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I have three kids, three adult kids, 27, 26 and 24.
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I am a grandfather of four grandchildren and one on a way.
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And then last year we brought a new daughter and a family.
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So I have a grand daughter, a grand kid that her same age as my daughter and my wife and
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I adopted our niece at birth and so she's 20 months old now.
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So we started all over from empty nesting to being a grandparent and parents again at
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the same time.
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So she's the summers of my fourth kid and our daughter and she's just amazing blessing
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to us.
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And you are busy.
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Anyway, let's jump into the book now, Chad, a mission without borders, five star reviews
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already on Amazon.
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It's been out what three weeks or so, maybe a little bit more than that.
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But it says you offer an honest, no holds barred account of what has really been happening
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in Ukraine and you share powerful stories that are soaked in resiliency and determination,
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faith and sacrifice in the face of overwhelming opposition.
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So Chad, let's just say this right up front.
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A lot of people have different views on Ukraine and Americans, the US support of Ukraine
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and Zelensky and the globalists, but the people that are suffering.
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First of all, just share why you decided to write this book at this time.
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Yes, I'm definitely happy to address that because the thing has been a very confusing topic
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especially for Christians and conservatives.
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I mean, obviously, I'm a Christian person foremost.
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I'm very conservative.
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I'm probably most patriotic guys I know and I don't believe in using US taxpayers'
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dollars to be wasted overseas.
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So I got a lot of heat from people as those one of you, Ukraine.
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Like, Chad, why would you go to Ukraine?
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Why would you support this corrupt nation?
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Because President Zelensky's corrupt, we shouldn't be sending hundreds of billions of dollars
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to Ukraine.
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First of all, I heard those complaints to me and I agree with that money being sent
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there.
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Is our US taxpayer dollars that is being sent to a corrupt government and is being wasted?
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It's not making the front lines.
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No one knows that better than me up in the front lines over 10 trips now.
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But I also believe, and I'll say this, I did not go to Ukraine to help President Zelensky.
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I did not go for President Biden.
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I believe this corrupt politicians, Zelensky and President Biden have the ability in this
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war, 24 hours, and they don't because they're becoming rich off of it and getting power
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off of it.
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So I did not go for them.
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What I went for is the innocent people that are victim of that corruption.
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And if us as Christians and conservatives ever let our politics and our jadedness get
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in the way of our compassion for people, then we should change our politics.
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Right?
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I mean, I've been there firsthand and seen, there's been over many people killed at this
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point.
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Mostly civilians.
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I've been the pizza parlors and movie theaters and in playgrounds and daycares, just like
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we have here.
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This isn't a third world country.
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Not that third world countries deserve that, but this is the first world country like
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America that have apartment buildings that are being rocketed by ballistic missiles,
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the size of telephone poles.
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You're talking first world nation, a world superpower attacking another first world nation and
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they're targeting civilians intentionally to create fear and terrorize the civilian population
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to make them bold and you have corrupt politicians in the middle that are allowing it to happen
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and not ending it because they want this war to continue.
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You don't hear President Biden or President Zelensky talking about peace.
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In fact, the only person you've heard talk about peace is President Trump, who said exactly
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where I say an opening in the book is this thing can be ended in 24 hours and he can't.
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And so that's why I went to Ukraine because there are victims that are a result of this
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corruption.
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And we've been one of the first reasons that went there.
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So I knew when this happened, if you go back to Afghanistan, the withdrawal and the way
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the withdrawal happened, not only was I upset by that, but all of our enemies were watching,
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were not upset.
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They were cheerleading.
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They're like, yes, our enemies, this is the time to do whatever evil we want to do in
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the world because we have a weak White House.
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And I tell you, if you have a weak White House, if you have a weak commander chief in
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the United States of America, the world is an unstable and dangerous place and it's time.
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It's a game on for the Putin's of the world and the present Z's of the world and that's
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what happened.
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And President Putin saw this.
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He put a hundred thousand troops on the border, Eastern border of Ukraine.
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He flexed to see what President Biden would do and President Biden's response was to remove
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our U.S. troops from Ukraine and to close our embassy and consulate before he removed
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the Americans.
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So what that did was all NATO followed because they always followed what the American does
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and they gave a green light for Putin across.
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And when Putin came across, we knew before this happened, when Putin would come across,
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we'd still Americans there.
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So my team positioned in place to remove Americans out because our government didn't.
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And look, you could have whatever political opinion you want, but no matter where you
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sit, there is never a scenario that the United States government should leave Americans
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behind in war zones.
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And we did it in Sudan.
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We did it in Africa.
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And so not Africa, we did it in Afghanistan.
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We did it in some other places in the world and we did it in Ukraine and unfortunately good
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people, like the people work with, had to stand in the gap for our White House to rescue
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Americans.
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And that's what we did.
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We rescued Benjamin Hall, the Fox News reporter recovered bodies of his teammate.
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We rescued, we recovered bodies of U.S. service members who volunteered to go there and fight
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when our State Department wouldn't and couldn't because of our White House.
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We've jumped in on missions that our tier one JSOC units couldn't do because the White
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House would let them.
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We did operations that are central intelligence agency wanted to do, but they couldn't
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because of the White House and we're recording with them all the time.
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By the way, my organization that does this, we, we de-conflict with the Pentagon, we
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work with JSOC to make sure we're not, we're doing de-confliction and we support as a patriotic
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surrogate these organizations to do things that either can't or won't do.
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And so, you know, this was very coordinated effort with our government who couldn't do
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with the White House, but would not allow them to do, which is the right thing.
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And so we rescued tons of people in Ukraine and one of the things that my de-Ox did is
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went in and a my de-Ox foundation went in is train, provide humanitarian aid, but also
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train pastors to be chaplains to go and, and, and minister their, their congregate members
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who are now conscripted troops on the front lines.
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And so we've, we've actually trained in this date, I think a 300, 300 plus pastors to
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be chaplains and help get them on the front line.
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It's, it's an incredible thing to be part of.
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I think one of the biggest things I, I take away from the book and talk about in the book
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is the fact that I did this with my son.
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We have 84 years of service in our family from War I to Korea, Vietnam, both, I was in
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Marine, both my sons in Marines, one of them was Afghanistan better and just like me.
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And he wanted to come to do this and I tried to bench him in the beginning out of my
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fear of control as a mother.
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And God just had different plans and so did my son and I, it came a point where I realized
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that, you know, I love my son, but God loves him more.
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I can protect my son, but God can protect him more.
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And there's no safer place for my son to be, whether on a couch, back in Texas or in
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the front lines of Ukraine, amongst Russian forces, there's no safer place for me to be
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the middle of God's will.
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And I had to release that fear to faith in my son and the God to allow him to do what
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God was burdened, his heart to do.
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And that was a, so to me that the most craziest part of this book and story is the relationship
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between me and my son and taking him into a war zone with me, which is something I
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no farther ever wants to do.
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But I had to succumb to that and, you know, and submit to that because I was God's will,
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I felt that was God's will.
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And that's my biggest takeaway from this book, by the way.
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There's no safer place to be than in God's will.
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That's what you said and your son, it's just amazing.
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So it says you did seven trips and you saw a change in your son as his confidence grew
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and excelled, but that conversation or conversations before he decided to go where you decided
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to allow him to go, that must have been fascinating.
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Do you detail that in the book as well?
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Oh, yeah.
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The whole book, kind of, one of the string through the whole book is that relationship
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between me and my son and him wanting to go to the different steps of letting him
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get more and more involved to the end and ultimately, ultimately by the end, I did
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10 trips to Ukraine and he's done more than me now.
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He's done 13 trips to Ukraine.
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And he's been, you know, done some amazing work that I'm extremely proud of.
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So yeah, he's been there more than I have now.
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And yeah, through the book, from the very beginning to the end, is that journey that he
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and I went on as a father and son through this?
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Chad, before we let you go, just three minutes left.
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Talk a little bit more about the chaplains and the inspiring work that they're doing in
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Ukraine and reaching people that are suffering and hurting and in need, the real victims.
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Yeah, I mean, because when you, you know, one of the things that I think Americans,
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one of the great things about being in America and one of the terrible things about being
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in America is we're in this bubble and we don't realize how great we have our life is
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because of the freedoms of one, one, they're already owned by God and the freedoms that
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we've been protected by every man and woman who's born in uniforms in 1775 and fought
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bland died for those freedoms.
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We're part of only 25% of the world that have religious freedoms and we're free of persecution
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and we can go and pulp it in Sunday and either give or hear the word of God.
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And so we just have this amazing opportunity that we just take for granted sometimes and,
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and, you know, and we think that this can never happen to us in Ukraine.
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These people would have thought this can never happen, right?
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Ukraine's a first world country.
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It's this malls and, you know, just regular everyday life.
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And so you imagine being in a church one Sunday and the congregation has filled with 50%
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men, 50% women.
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The next Sunday you go, all the men are gone from 16 years old to 60 years old.
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They're all gone.
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And you imagine me in that pastor saying, these are, you know, I've knew little, I knew
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you little, I, I've been since he was, since he was five years old and now he's 22 years
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old and he's gone.
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And these pastors wanted to go to the front line where their memory conscripted and be
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able to go and minister them on the battlefield because Ukraine didn't really have a chaplaincy.
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And so, but, but these pastors don't know how to sleep in the woods, poop in the woods,
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you know, not be a burden to the troops, how to be a chaplain, how to minister to people
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dealing with PTSD.
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They didn't know how to apply medical, you know, first aid and not be a burden.
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So we decided, we saw that need and so my deokes and our team and my deokes, these are
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guys who came through my deokes as students and now become team leaders and want to go
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around the world and pay it forward, put together a program that trained, and again,
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now it's been over 300 chaplains, trained these pastors to be chaplains and equip them
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and supply them the move forward and help coordinate and move forward to the front line.
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So they can minister to their congregate members on the front lines and their communities.
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And it's been an amazing thing to watch our team do that and be part of that.
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Wow, incredible, incredible things happening behind the scenes.
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We're thankful for you to share some of that insight.
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And in the books, friends, both a mission without borders and saving a Z's and encourage
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you to check that out.
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And then you'll be ready for the movie when the movie comes out.
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Yes.
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Brother, thank you for your time.
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I love your story and everything that you're involved with, most importantly, that you
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are submitting to God's will and glorifying Him in your life.
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So praise God for you.
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I thanks again for being a blessing to our viewers today.
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Thank you.
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Thanks for having me on your bed.
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Chad Robachow dot com mighty oaks programs dot O R G. Wow, guys, so much more.
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But thank you for sharing the podcast.
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And as always, God bless you, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.