Former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan told Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson on Monday that the ...

On his “Tucker Carlson Show,” the right-wing commentator was talking to conservative podcast host and former Navy SEAL Shawn ...

Shawn Ryan left the Navy SEALs because he wasn't seeing enough combat and he didn't like what being a SEAL long term had done to his comrades.

Shawn Ryan was a Navy SEAL for nearly six years ... And for the first time in a long time, I was fully present with my family . That experience changed everything. It gave me a second chance.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shawn Ryan, a retired Navy SEAL and former CIA contractor ... Your platoon, your teammates, is your primary family. The families are secondary.