#294 Pete Blaber - Part 2: Delta Force Commander on Pablo Escobar, Takur Ghar, and Pat Tillman
4/6/20267 hr
Pete Blaber is a retired Delta Force commander renowned for leading elite counter-terrorism and special operations teams across the globe, now applying his battle-tested leadership principles to corporate environments, authorship, and innovative security solutions. Born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, as one of nine children in an Irish-Catholic household. Pete attended Southern Illinois University. His military career saw him rise through the ranks of Delta Force to high-level command roles, directing critical operations in Panama, Colombia, Somalia, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Retiring in 2006, he transitioned from commanding elite combat teams worldwide to leading executive teams. A prominent voice on leadership, team dynamics, crisis decision-making, national security, and organizational effectiveness, he has been featured in profiles, interviews, and podcasts sharing practical insights drawn from his extraordinary career. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: Post jobs for free at https://ziprecruiter.com/srs Get 20% off sitewide at https://helixsleep.com/SRS and enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you! Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get 20% off with promo code SRS at https://shopmando.com ! #mandopod Go to https://meetfabric.com/SHAWN and apply today, risk-free Go to https://shopbeam.com/SRS and use code SRS to get up to 50% off Beam Dream Powder, the sleep formula designed to help you fall asleep fast and wake up clear. Ready to tackle bigger problems? Get started with Claude today at https://claude.ai/srs and check out Claude Pro, which includes access to all of the features mentioned in today’s episode. One thing to pack, five ways to power! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code SRS at https://www.Ridge.com/srs #Ridgepod Pete Blaber Links: IG - https://www.instagram.com/blaberpete Website - https://www.peteblaber.com Books - https://www.peteblaber.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Host0:00
[sighs] Pete, I don't know how much more of this shit I can take for one day, man.
Pete Blaber· Guest0:11
[laughs] Yeah.
Speaker 0· Host0:12
But it's important work we're doing, so let's press on.
Pete Blaber· Guest0:16
Okay. Um, so, you know, I guess we'll kind of do a segue because we're in Afghanistan in two thousand and two, just two years, not even two years, about a year and a half later, um, eight kilometers to the east of Takur Ghar is where, uh, Pat Tillman and his platoon are, uh, doing-- searching for weapons caches. Um, the-- how I got involved in this was, uh, was kind of twofold or two-pronged. First, in two thousand and seventeen, uh, Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, um, found an intermediary, uh, that contacted me, and she sent me an email, and it said, uh, "I read your book. I know you were in Afghanistan and you were a Ranger. Um, if you have time to talk, I'd love to talk to you." And, and so I called her immediately, uh, on the phone and she said, you know, she told