Episode #384
A chance mentorship at 14 set Scott Mann on the Green Beret path, emphasizing relationships and perseverance through repeated failures as foundations of leadership.
In the 2021 Kabul evacuation, veterans built Task Force Pineapple and the 'Pineapple Express' to guide partners like Nizam to safety, saving hundreds while carrying a heavy moral and mental toll for those left behind.
Mann warns terrorist networks are reconstituting in Afghanistan and argues a small, sustained U.S. partnership could have prevented it—urging listeners to lead when 'nobody's coming.'
They are not done with us. I guarantee it.
I am the pineapple.
I don't mind dying. I just don't want to die alone.
Scott Mann didn’t come on the #STFpod to promote his book or business. Scott has a story to tell— the story of “Operation Pineapple Express”— a dramatic, last-minute rescue operation during the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Scott Mann is a retired US Army Green Beret who has served on tours worldwide, including Columbia, Iraq, and multiple tours in Afghanistan.
He is a warrior storyteller and the founder of Rooftop Leadership where he shares the rapport-building skills he learned in Special Forces to help today’s leaders make better human connections in high-stakes, low-trust engagements.
Scott is also the international best-selling author of “Game Changers: Going Local to Defeat Violent Extremists“ and “Operation Pineapple Express.“
What you’ll hear in this interview is an incredible story— a success through failure story— of Operation Pineapple Express or the heroic rescue operation headlined by Scott and other retired Green Berets that saved their former comrade and 500 other Afghans targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. Don’t miss it! Tune in now!
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