#92 Christian Craighead - SAS Operator

Christian Craighead is a former member of the United Kingdom's elite 22 Special Air Service unit. Craighead is credited with saving over 700 lives of innocent civilians when he thwarted a terrorist attack at the DusitD2 Hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya in 2019. He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for his actions. 21 people lost their lives in the attack, both American and British civilians among them. This episode covers Christian Craighead's entire life story. "Obi Wan Nairobi" joined the Parachute Regiment as a teenager and was selected for the Pathfinder Platoon. He served on multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Shawn & Christian discuss the blowback from the British Government and the outstanding "gag order" by the Ministry of Defence. Shawn & Christian also dive into faith, purpose, and break down the SAS motto "Who Dares Wins." Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://lairdsuperfood.com - USE CODE "SRS" https://babbel.com/srs https://shopify.com/shawn https://preparewithshawn.com https://mindbloom.com/srs - USE CODE "SRS" https://ShawnLikesGold.com or call 855-936-GOLD #goldcopartner Christian Craighead Links: Book - https://a.co/d/6T3LDDG | store.bookbaby.com/book/the-wrong-wolf IG - https://www.instagram.com/christian_craighead X - https://twitter.com/one_man_in Please leave us a review on Apple & Spotify Podcasts. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website | Patreon | TikTok | Instagram | Download Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

love the 'outside' view

Great hearing a non-american view point of everything going down, especially of them joining 'america's' wars. Also just learning how their military works and common issues. It is brought up with the gap of combat experience in modern units and the shame in saying you want to go to war. I deployed early in career, but when I got out the unit I was in had gone a decade of nothing (multiple stand down deployments due to Afghan troop pull outs). But as far as the shame goes, the retention nco, E7, asked why I and a squad mate were getting out, I was honest, we weren't deploying, just lost another combat tour, and we joined for combat. I said what was the point of going infantry if we arent fighting our ongoing wars? The retention nco looked at me with disgust and said she was glad I was getting out for saying that because people shouldnt join for combat and those that did were physcopaths... and then I'm watchimg them try hard to keep some non-deployed crippled kid in by offering all kinds of permant profiles and a new cushy mos to keep numbers.

humble hero

A SAS military man who was in Nairobi when terrorists were determined to kill over 700 people in a hotel. Christian Craighead went into the hotel alone to fight against evil because he was needed.