Delta Force Command Sergeant Major Recruits Fighter After Seeing Him in Thai Street Match

What was said

"Here I am in Thailand fighting in a movie Thai match, right? In a street fighter pit. And um I just felt like I had something to prove, man. You know, and I I now looking back, it was it was my trauma, you know. I I never felt like I fit in, you know. I wanted to give back to the world what they gave me."

A 1st Special Forces Group operator was recruited to Delta Force's combatives program after the unit's incoming command sergeant major witnessed him fighting in underground Muay Thai matches in Thailand. Despite a military-wide order prohibiting special operators from competing in unsanctioned fights due to injury concerns, the command sergeant major offered him a position developing hand-to-hand combat training for Delta operators. The operator initially declined the offer, saying no to unlimited funding and training with elite instructors, before later accepting.