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But Brian was killed in action in a Humvee. He was blown up in an IED along with 3 others. And it really shook me me. You know, I'm sitting in Cambridge and a guy who I respected the hell out of was just instantly vaporized. And, and I was like, what can I do? You know, what can I do? Brian's got 7, I think it was, siblings that were all from the greater Boston area. Both of his parents were from, from the area. And there was a reporter who is famous in kind of the Boston Globe, Sean O'Shea, and his email address was always at the bottom of every article he wrote. And I emailed him and said, hey, Hey, here's who I am. Here's what's just happened. You know the Red Sox really well. I don't know anybody at the Red Sox. I want to get a game dedicated to my friend Brian. And just a cold email to the guy. And he said, hey, Mike, so sorry for your loss and the country's loss. And here's— I've connected you with, you know, so-and-so from the Red Sox organization.
Mike Hayes · The Shawn Ryan Show · #350 Mike Hayes - The Navy SEAL in Obama’s Situation Room During the Captain Phillips Rescue · 2026-10-22When I would— I think Yeah, I don't know. There are a lot, but I'd say it depends if I know the person, if the answer has to be I know the person or I don't know the person, you know. And so I'd answer it kind of two ways. I'd say on deployment, I had to— we had an operation in— when I— sorry, uh, in command of SEAL Team 2 in Afghanistan, it was, it was was a lot of kinetic activity, a lot of engagements with the Taliban, you know, a lot of governance too, a lot of tea drinking and speeches in villages and stuff like that. It wasn't all— it was different lines of operation. But the— on that deployment, we had somebody step on a pressure plate IED and lost most of his leg.
Mike Hayes · The Shawn Ryan Show · #350 Mike Hayes - The Navy SEAL in Obama’s Situation Room During the Captain Phillips Rescue · 2026-10-22I don't know if it's a plane term, but the back end of the plane, there was a gurney with a soldier elevated maybe 4 or 5 feet and just laying flat, head like all kinds of ACE bandages around his head, completely out of it, and like medically induced coma, kind of like borderline coma. And there are, of course, nurses that are flying. They're each responsible for, I think, 2 of the patients or something like that. And I was— I had a seat basically right next to this guy who was in this medically induced coma. And I asked the nurse, I said, you know, you know what happened? And she said, yeah, he was in an IED. They— he— right now his, his skull is, is just like cut open. His, his brain was exposed. Closed. He's going to pass away, but we're just flying him back to Germany so that he can pass away next to his family. Shit.
Mike Hayes · The Shawn Ryan Show · #350 Mike Hayes - The Navy SEAL in Obama’s Situation Room During the Captain Phillips Rescue · 2026-10-22