Emergency Deployment with the Ranger Regiment

October 11, 2024 01:28:56
Emergency Deployment with the Ranger Regiment
The Spear
Emergency Deployment with the Ranger Regiment

Oct 11 2024 | 01:28:56

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Show Notes

While serving as a company executive officer with the 1st Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment in 2016, Ryan Crayne and his company were training at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center when they received emergency overseas deployment orders. Just days later, and after a herculean logistical effort, Ryan and his fellow Rangers were in Afghanistan and engaged in a major clearing operation against ISIS. He joins this episode to share the story of that operation, explaining how high-performing units leverage leadership principles such as mutual trust, disciplined initiative, and prudent risk to enable extraordinary accomplishments in training and on the battlefield.

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