Retired Navy SEAL Drago Dzieran has a complicated past. Before serving twenty years at the Tip of the Spear, he was a political prisoner in his home country of Poland after they assumed Communist rule. After immigrating to America, he became a citizen, joined the military, and not long after started serving with Jocko Willink over at SEAL Team 2, before eventually transitioning to SEAL Team 4. He's operated all over the world, stopped a lot of bad guys, and even archived his travels in his memoir 'The Pledge to America: One Man's Journey from Political Prisoner to U.S. Navy SEAL'. 

What makes a man move away from his home to fight for another? What was Jocko like on SEAL Team 2? And what does the future have in store for Drago Dzieran? Let's find out.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

01:36 - Life was Totally Different Now

06:46 - A Newly-Released Political Prisoner

14:25 - An Emergency U.S. Visa

19:35 - Working-Class American Compassion

33:42 - Joining the Military

38:05 - A Brief Explanation of Skydiving (& American Women)

43:01 - I Joined the Navy, Having Never Seen the Ocean

50:47 - Joining SEAL Team 2

01:01:21 - Meet Jocko Willink

01:14:23 - Working Out on 9/11

01:28:08 - Deployed to Iraq

01:38:23 - SEAL Team 4's Craziest Raid

01:46:05 - Teams in Fallujah

01:56:05 - Dating Advice from SEAL Team 4

02:08:23 - The Pledge to America & The Navy Seals Fund

02:13:54 - Censorship and ConnectZing

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Support Drago Dzieran -

Book - The Pledge to America: https://www.amazon.com/Pledge-America-Journey-Political-Prisoner/dp/1637583710

Website: https://dragodzieran.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dragodzieran

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