Virtual Discussion w/Bryan Stern
August 28, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
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August 28, 2024 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm America/Atlanta
Bryan started his rescue journey in August 2021 as the CEO and Founder of Project DYNAMO, in response to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has since launched Grey Bull Rescue as a sustainable long-term solution to Americans at risk in war and conflict zones. His team has conducted over 600 rescue missions and saved over 7,000 lives from 35 different countries. Grey Bull Rescue is funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsors and backed by a Board of Senior SOF Flag Officers and NCOs.
As war between Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah looms, an estimated 58,000 Americans remain in Lebanon, potentially being caught in the crossfire. In the event of war and evacuation, most Americans hope to be evacuated by the United States military — 15,000 were evacuated by the military during the 2006 war. But for those who miss extraction or are trapped, Bryan will discuss how his operation plans to extract those left behind.
For the last three years, Stern has led a team of highly-specialized operators conducting unfathomably risky operations in some of the world’s most dangerous places and denied areas. Stern and his cohorts, some 70 people, are essentially last-option rescue all-stars employing OSS-style tactics against threats ranging from the Russian Intelligence Service to gangs in Haiti and now Hezbollah. Over the three years, Stern and his team are credited with many accolades, including the daring hostage rescue of the first American victim of war crimes since WWII from the Russians. He has done jail breaks from Russia, rescued kidnapped Americans from Gaza, landed airplanes in Sudan, flown Blackhawks in Haiti, MEDEVAC’d American babies from Russian-occupied Ukraine, and conducted helicopter operations in Maui, among many other missions. The American and allied men, women, and children the Grey Bull Rescue team saves due to war, fire, hurricanes, and more are offered hope when all hope is lost.
Stern is a career counterintelligence officer, BENS member, Army and Navy Combat Vet, Purple Heart recipient, and an expert in Non-conventional Assisted Recovery operations with specific expertise in non-permissive and semi-permissive environments and GPC threats. Stern has operated in EUCOM, CENTCOM, AFRICOM, SOUTHCOM, and INDOPACOM AORs and recently returned from Lebanon and Israel during the Israel-Iran/Hezbollah conflict.
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