Roy Hallums was rescue during the Iraq war after spending approximately a year buried alive. CMDR Dan O'Shea gets his story on tape.

Dan O’Shea is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL, combat-veteran, world traveler, history buff, and storyteller. He is known for his hostage terrorism subject matter expertise and counterinsurgency experience, as well as two decades of reporting on terrorism as a military analyst for BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, News Nation and NewsMax. He writes and speaks on topics related to terrorism, leadership, teamwork and the warrior creed.

Reflecting on the host’s own background - living, operating, and thriving in the lion’s den from the Arab world to Africa, Asia to Europe, South America to Down Under. Chasing hostage-takers in Iraq, countering an insurgency in Afghanistan and adventure racing in New Zealand, China and Brazil. Four decades traveling, exploring and surviving adventures on six continents and more than sixty countries. Gaining a geo-political perspective on the spectrum to the right of Attila the Hun and the left of St Francis of Assisi a former soldier who traded his sword for a life of poverty and piety. The host spent two formative years at the US Embassy in Baghdad, establishing and running the Hostage Working Group, dealing with the largest hostage-taking crisis the US faced since the 1979-1980 Iran Hostage Crisis. Baghdad is 50 miles North of ancient Babylon - once ruled by Nebuchadnezzar the Great - the most famous Babylonian Emperor. Like his biblical namesake, Daniel, our host faced a similar lion’s den of risk adverse management, ineffective bureaucrats, jealous inter-agency “partners,” and self-serving careerists who saw a tour in a war zone as a means for promotion and not a mission to bring stability and stability to a fragile democracy. Like the Old Testament Daniel, O’Shea persevered because of his faith, fidelity and focus on leader’s intent and a vision “dream” of success. A kidnapping crisis exceeding more than fifty foreigners a month was a single digit by the end of his tour.