The Green Berets Who Traded Bullets for BourbonTheir covert mission into Afghanistan inspired a book, a movie, a monument and now, an award-winning bourbon.

This week's episode ofGet a Real Jobfocuses on a group of brave men who have chosen action over safety for their entire lives.

In the days after 9/11, while many Americans were watching the news in a state of shock and horror, a team of 12 Green Berets covertly entered Afghanistan and waged war against the Taliban ... on horseback.

Riding horses as they penetrated the forbidding landscape of Afghanistan wasn't part of the plan. But almost nothing about their mission, code-named Task Force Dagger, had a plan anyway. They were dropped in-country and basically told to figure it out as they went along.

尽管超过40,点燃tle-to-no contact with their command headquarters, these men, The Horse Soldiers, fought in a series of intense battles side-by-side with militia allies and successfully captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif from the Taliban, a strategic stronghold.

The Horse Soldier's story inspired a book, amovieand a monument that can be seen at the9/11 Memorial in New York. Nearly 20 years after Task Force Dagger's success, retired Special Operators Scott Neil, Rob Schaefer, Mark Nutsch, Bob Pennington, Tyler Garner and John Koko, along with Elizabeth Pritchard-Koko, found a new mission: they foundedAmerican Freedom Distillery. The all-American company's signature offering is theaward-winning Horse Soldier Bourbon, which is sold in bottles pressed in molds made from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center site.

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Neil, Nutsch and Pennington came by the狗万官方office to discuss their lives and their business for this week's episode. We hope you enjoy and feel inspired. And to the Horse Soldiers, and all military men and women listening, we thank you for your service.