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Navy SEAL: "There Was Killer Dolphins" | Official Preview

Shawn Ryan Show · 25 August 2026 · 6m · 1 Egleze moment

What happened in this episode?

This short “Official Preview” for the Shawn Ryan Show episode with retired US Navy SEAL Clint Emerson is a montage of fragments from the longer interview. Emerson is introduced as having spent more than two decades in Naval Special Warfare, including work in intelligence collection, surveillance, and high-risk operations. In one segment, he describes being instructed to keep quiet about a tasking to go to the front line during the Iraq invasion and retrieve dead Marines from trenches, saying leadership wanted it handled discreetly to avoid damaging morale; he also relays unverified reports of Fedayeen fighters infiltrating and killing sleeping Marines.

Other clips include Emerson recounting harsh moments in training, references to an operation planned against a gas/oil platform that he says felt like a “suicide mission” because of loss of stealth, and a personal story about discovering his father’s body in a morgue and shielding his younger brother from the scene. The preview also teases unusual training involving “killer dolphins” and mentions intelligence material alleging Osama bin Laden had “27 vessels” documented in a binder. A brief self-promotional interlude directs listeners to watch the full episode early on a Patreon channel.

Because the preview is a compilation, most claims appear without full context, supporting documentation, or the detailed follow-up that would be expected in the complete interview.

What are the key points?

Clint Emerson is introduced as a retired Navy SEAL with more than two decades in Naval Special Warfare, including SEAL Team Six.
Emerson recalls being told to discreetly retrieve dead Marines from trenches near the front line during the Iraq invasion.
He repeats, as hearsay, reports that Fedayeen fighters were allegedly infiltrating and killing sleeping Marines.
He describes an operation against a gas/oil platform that he says appeared to lose the element of surprise and felt like a “suicide mission”.
Emerson recounts finding his father already in a body bag at a morgue and removing his younger brother from the room.
The preview teases training involving “killer dolphins”, without further detail.
The montage includes a brief Patreon plug to watch the full episode early.

Which topics are covered?

Military

How is this page sourced?

Programme: Shawn Ryan Show
Published: 25 August 2026
Duration: 6m
Original episode: Open the original source ↗

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Clint Emerson recalls covert tasking to retrieve dead Marines in Iraq

at 4:15 · Attributed speaker claim

Colonel Kelly's direction, we were told like, "Hey, keep this between you guys. Don't advertise it, but we need you guys to go up to the front line and, you know, start pulling dead Marines out these trenches." And supposedly the Fedayeen, those were the guys with the balaclavas and black trench coats, they were sneaking in and like literally cutting throats while Marines were sleeping.

Retired US Navy SEAL Clint Emerson tells Shawn Ryan he and a teammate were instructed, at what he describes as “Colonel Kelly’s direction”, to discreetly go to the front line during the Iraq invasion to pull dead Marines from trenches, so it would not affect morale or the push forward. Emerson adds that they had heard reports — which he labels as “supposedly” — that Fedayeen fighters were infiltrating positions and cutting the throats of sleeping Marines.

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