For 20 years, he served in the ranks of the elite Navy Navy SEALs. During 1 of the missions in Iraq, destiny confronted him with GROM soldiers. The friendships there proceed to this day. Tomasz “Drago” Dziieran was honored with a unique medal in Warsaw today.
Tomasz Dzieran “Drago”, a erstwhile Navy SEAL soldier, received the Polish Army Gold Medal today. This award was awarded exclusively to foreigners and Poles residing outside the country, who placed peculiar merits in the field of cooperation between Polish armed forces and the armies of another states, actively supported on the global phase the peaceful activity of the Polish Army, contributed to the improvement of the defence possible of the Republic of Poland, or peculiarly deserved in the field of cooperation within multinational units, which include units of the Polish Army. The medal has been awarded in 2013 posthumously Michael H. Ollis, an American soldier who died in Afghanistan, saving the life of a Polish soldier during Taliban attack on Polish base in Ghazni. The Medal was awarded to Tomasz Dzieran by Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and was presented by General Wiesław Kukuła, Head of the General Staff of the Polish Army.
Tomasz “Drago” Dziieran was born and raised in Łódź. He left for the United States in December 1984, previously spent more than 1.5 years in a communist prison in Hrubieszów. He went there for his opposition activity and his flyers. In the United States, he joined the army, served as a parachute teacher in land troops, and later in the NAVY SEALs. "I was almost 30 years old, which means I was 10 years older than people who usually started serving at Navy SEALs, so the commanders hesitated to accept me. But I passed all the tests on a very advanced level. That convinced them. I joined the unit and later became a SEAL teacher at the Colorado base,” he told “Drago” in an interview given to “Armed Poland” in 2017. He had no contact with Poland until 2004 and the mission in Iraq. "I got a call to aid integrate the units GROM and SEALs in joint action. erstwhile I met the boys, for the first time in 20 years I started speaking Polish. It was an interesting experience. I've never seen the SEALs work so closely with any alien unit. We lived together, we worked together. We were partners, we learned from each other," said Drago. With the Navy SEALs he divided up in 2011, after 20 years of service. present he supports veterans who face the wellness effects of acting in peculiar troops. It besides happens regularly in Poland, where it meets current and erstwhile GROM soldiers. He cooperates with the Foundation “Common with GROM”, with which he organizes a symposium devoted to TBI (traumatic brain injury – ed.), a illness which occurs due to microtraumatic brain trauma. They arise as a consequence of explosions and strokes, that is, what a soldier, including peculiar troops, is dealing with erstwhile carrying out tasks. “Drago” besides became the hero of 1 of the publications by Paweł Mateńczuk “Naval” who described in his book “My Friend Drago”.