Daniel Corbett: The Navy SEAL Arrested in Serbia & His 18-Month Fight for Freedom | AJ Buckley Show
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AJ Buckley interviews former Navy SEAL Daniel Corbett about his arrest in Serbia and his experiences in the military.
What happens when a Navy SEAL from DEVGRU walks away from the teams and becomes a mercenary, only to end up arrested in Serbia and held in a pre-World War II prison for 18 months? This week on The AJ Buckley Show, AJ sits down with Daniel Corbett, also known as DC, a former SEAL Team Six operator whose life took a turn that reads like a Hollywood thriller, except every single word of it is true. DC opens up about growing up in a loving, supportive military family, bouncing around from Hawaii to Germany to Texas, and discovering football as an outlet for crushing people on the field. He shares the moment an assistant coach handed him a VHS tape about Navy SEALs, how he watched it and knew instantly that was his calling, and why he signed his delayed entry at 17 years old as an insurance policy against taking a year off after high school. DC talks about Hell Week, the misconception that the teams teach you resilience when you actually have to show up with it, and why the hardest thing about Hell Week wasn't the cold or the pain but realizing people could quit and he never even thought about it. AJ and DC dive deep into what it was like deploying to Iraq in 2005 with SEAL Team Five…
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