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Myanmar or Burma is a country we love.

Some know it for its authoritarian military government and the news headlines of genocide, coups, political prisoners, and other horrors.

Others know it was voted the most giving country in the world, and its people are some of the friendliest on Earth.

Our viewers know it as a place where punk rock and Buddhism go hand in hand.

We're not the only ones who fell in love with Myanmar and its people.

We spent the weekend at an annual leadership and strategy conference for the organization, Free Burma Rangers.

They have dedicated themselves to exposing and documenting atrocities committed against Burmese ethnic minorities and internally displaced people groups or IDPs.

The world was shocked when the Burmese military recently seized power once again.

FBR was not.

They say it changed very little for their work as the military has been acting with impunity in the rural parts of the country for decades.

Their work in Burma has even led them to expand their mission to conflict zones from Africa to the Middle East.

And if you know Dave Eubank, their leader and founder, mountaineer, hunter, explorer, and former Army Ranger, none of this is that surprising.

And we know Dave.

We grew up with him in Thailand.

What is surprising is that his entire family is as integral to the mission as he is, which means they're right there alongside him in some of the most dangerous places on the planet.

[music playing] Today we're going to run up this mountain.

We'll stop at the first small hill.

Yeah, everybody, try to run.

Don't walk.

But if your name is called, share something that you want to share out of your heart.

And then one exercise.

It can be like the Chinese finger movers, or it can be push ups.

Doesn't matter.

All right, this is the first station.

This is my station.

1, 2, 3, 28, 29, 30.

The work they do in conflict zones is dangerous and requires serious training.

Dave is a former Army Ranger, and Free Burma Rangers operates with the discipline and brutal efficiency of a special forces outfit.

Good talk.

As you may have discerned, Craig and I are not former Army Rangers.

It's not as easy as you think.

So Earl lead us in.

What's on your heart?

And one exercise, please.

Yea though I walk through the valley or hill of death, I will fear no evil.

There is the Valley at some point, right?

Yeah, where we are.

In the meantime, let's do-- The exercise better be the finger thing.

It's going to be much harder.

No.

25 jumping jacks.

Come on, people, go!

1, 8, 9.

This annual retreat held at the Eubanks family compound near the Burmese border is a chance for them to plan, with all their different teams operating all over the world.

Over the years, their mission of reporting from conflict zones and bringing hope to the internally displaced people groups or IDPs has expanded from Burma into Africa and the Middle East.

As the work of Free Burma Rangers carries Dave and his family farther and farther from Burma, the local partners and team members have stepped in to crucial leadership roles for the organization.

We all have our reasons to be here.

We asked a question in the beginning of this meeting.

Who do you serve?

Because from who you serve comes what you do.

And that's a question everybody has to answer personally.

And so I believe God has called all of us in different ways to go to help people in Burma because it's the right thing to do.

There's no clear black and white situation there.

And with God's help, we can do something.

So I just want to thank everybody.

We're all in this together.

Today's schedule-- FBR is a faith-based organization.

But while Dave wears his Christian faith on his sleeve, it's not a requirement for Rangers.

And while the organization has its roots in missionary work, many of the team members aren't Christians at all.

Dave most definitely is.

This group, the FBR team-- yes, there's a heavy Christian element, but not everyone's Christian.

Well, I believe everyone's a child of God.

And he loves us all.

And he gives us freedom to believe in him or not.

And so we don't need to be telling people what they got to believe and what they got to be.

The people from Burma right now that we have on our teams from 13 different ethnic groups and we have Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, animist, spirit worshippers, agnostics, maybe an atheist, I don't know.

They're all welcome because there's only three rules if you want to join FBR-- one is you cannot run away.

People can't run.

We're not there to fight the Burma army or ISIS or anybody.

But you can't run if people that you're trying to help cannot run.

Second, you have to be able read and write so that you can tell the stories.

You could do good medicine-- And not English.

Any language.

And the last one is love.

We don't pay the team members.

Very few staff on FBR are paid.

You have to do this for love.

You have to have another way to do this.

Then whatever you believe, whatever your faith or lack of faith is that's up to you.

We're all a family in this together.

We're all together, and everybody counts.

So what's the mission of Free Burma Ranger?

To go into conflict areas of direct combat or oppression and give people help that's mostly medical and other humanitarian help.

Hope.

You're not forgotten.

We're with you.

Our love which comes from God, and then they tell their story.

You tell me what's happening and we're going to put a light on the situation.

And then finally, as we're doing these things, people sometimes want to join us.

And we can help build them up and give them some skills to help their own people.

Dave and his family feel called to this work.

And the hundreds of photos adorning the walls of their home showed that above all else, they're also committed to staying together while doing it.

These are the kids skydiving Tanami in Czech Republic.

He was 6 in his first jump.

This is Sue with her monkey and her stallion in Burma.

This is in Alaska with the Kurdish flag.

The next day, these three shot one bear and three caribou.

Oh my God.

Karen is pregnant with Suzanne.

That's Sahale down jumping with the Thais.

That's Laura Bush meeting in the White House with myself and some of our and Kachin friends.

In here we've got-- this is from Burma Army.

This is a machine gun that actually shot at us and we got it.

These are kids competing at Cody rodeo.

They're pretty good.

And this is Lieutenant Hussein.

I was shot at once, he was shot six times.

He's Alive.

This is on a tank in Afghanistan, the very northern part of Badakhshan province.

This is when Pete set the record as the youngest kid to climb the grand when he was 6.

And the girls would have broke the record but they were older than him.

So do you wind surf?

I do.

Dave's wife, Karen, is as much a leader and member of the team as he is.

We spoke with her about the early days when they were doing more traditional missionary work with the people of Burma and why they decided to keep doing it even as they had children.

We would go into villages and stay in the bamboo huts or in the jungle and understand their situation.

Understand their story and bring hope, love, help.

As we had kids, we decided we would go together.

Stay together as a family.

A lot of walking.

A lot of backpacks.

Kids rode in the backpacks a lot.

How do you keep your kids clean, and safe, and healthy?

And so I've always felt I will be vigilant about my part whether I bring mosquito spray or antibiotics or whatever medicines and then God does the rest, really.

And I had so much help.

I can't even begin to say how our ethnic brothers and sisters helped raise my kids.

There's always challenges.

There's always hard times with that.

I felt lonely for friends.

But I realized I was giving them an opportunity to learn something more than I could teach by myself.

The generosity.

When you walk by someone's house, they don't say where are you going or how's it going.

They'll say, come eat.

Come eat.

Come eat.

Simplicity.

We do have to just take a bath on the creek, or gather greens that are wild growing in the forest, or hunt for your food.

And then the last thing I felt was so strong was compassion.

And I define that as laying down your life for somebody because you are there to sacrifice.

And that was the standard of the people who came to serve their people.

These Koran, the Kachin, the Sean.

All the ethnic teams.

And so in that way, all of our teams have modeled those things for the kids growing up.

And now those people are like uncles and aunts to them.

You guys have talked about that.

So again, it's just a huge gift.

And I felt that in the very beginning bringing the kids gave me a voice in a lot of ways we became a team where it wasn't anymore about how do I speak your language fluently?

It's wow, we have this mothering thing going on together.

Their family continued to grow even as their more traditional missionary work transitioned to their current mission around the ethnic conflicts in Burma.

And as FBR expanded to Sudan, Syria, and Iraq, it was natural for the Eubanks to stick together.

They went as a family.

Are your kids basically growing up the same way you grew up?

In some ways they are because I grew up with a rifle in my hand.

My dad taught me to hunt when I was 5, and shoot, and swim, and pretty soon I was running long distance to be in shape.

And I grew up in a boarding school.

I went hunting in the mountains of the tribal people.

So in those ways, it's similar.

What's different is my kids are growing up in war zones.

Full-on conflict.

But they're shooting, and they've seen people killed, they've carried the wounded, and dead bodies, and everything in between.

That be the different part.

The Middle East has been a whole new ballgame because it's a different culture.

It's the airplanes and bombs.

And that definitely is a place where you tell yourself, am I supposed to be here?

This is really crazy.

And even when we're doing good things like distributions or kids' programs, it gets rough.

[gunshots] Isis attacked, Iraqi army fought back Now we're back to our war clothes.

Isis is still there, but push back a little.

We didn't lose anybody.

Keep feeding people.

Thank you in Jesus' name.

And yet to watch the girls in that environment is hard.

It's not an easy place for a Westerner to go into.

And to feel the weight of the threat from ISIS, which is huge.

You never know what God's bringing the next day.

What you walk into and what you're going to walk out of.

The Eubanks have been criticized for taking their children into conflict zones.

But they would point out that there are children all over the world that don't have the luxury of fleeing or avoiding them.

We spoke to their children, Sahale, Suzanne, and Peter about their experiences.

Well, part of our organization's work is in the Middle East-- Kurdistan, Syria, and Iraq.

And during that time, we were in Mosul helping distribute food and water and giving medical support to the Iraqi army and the civilians fleeing from ISIS.

What kind of stuff are you doing?

So usually I would drive the ambulances back and forth to pick patients from the front line back to the CCP, Casualty Collection point Now, we sometimes had other team members with me.

Sometimes I do it by myself.

But you would do the driving?

Yes, sir.

I do the driving.

Why do you do the driving?

Well, a lot of the times it's because some of our volunteers have never learned to drive a stick shift.

That's crazy.

And did you do driver's Ed for driving an ambulance in a war zone?

No, just drive and don't crash.

And pray to the Lord that you don't get mortared.

Lord help them to miss with their weapons.

Miss an opportunity.

Thank you, Lord.

That was a-- That's a good miss.

--mortar.

And Sue, what about you?

What are the kinds of things you typically do?

I usually stay back at the casualty collection point and I help do school with my mom or distributions and just be with the people and help my mom do GLC programs and just whatever's necessary.

My mom just-- when she was in Burma she thought, I just want to give these kids something, but I don't have any material items to give.

And she felt God say, introduce them to me, and I'll take care of them.

And so she started the Good Life Club You're working with kids on the front line in the middle of a battle, right?

So what does that mean for them to just have a little bit of normalcy?

So, when we're with them, the kids are usually pretty scared, so we're trying to bring them in and be like, let's play some games and try and take their minds off of the war for the hour.

So whatever time we have.

And keep them happy and give them hope.

When you go to Iraq or the Middle East, what do your uncles and aunts think about it?

You find a lot that people under oppression relate to people under oppression.

My uncles and aunts from Burma are so generous, caring, and humbled.

And they always have a way to be completely genuine and loving to almost anyone they meet.

They really found a way to connect with the people of Iraq because they say, we know what it's like to fight for your country, and we know what it's like to lose your home.

Just being together on the fronline, it brings together some kind of brotherhood.

It's like we're both here standing against evil, fighting together.

So let's be friends no matter how different we are because you feel like you're back at home with them.

And it's kind of just hanging.

It's like hanging out with your old friends and family.

We actually-- there are not many missions that we do without them.

It gives a sense of normalcy to it.

This is Nineveh, and we actually got her from Mosul, Nineveh.

What kind of dog is it?

She is a Saluki dog.

And so what's special about the Saluki dogs?

They're really, really fast.

What was Nineveh like when y'all found out about her?

She was just traumatized.

Didn't even move.

Why was she traumatized?

ISIS and all the dead bodies and everything in Mosul.

And a lot of fighting, shooting, a lot of booms and bangs.

Did you guys see a lot of booms and bangs when you guys were out there?

We saw a lot of booms and bangs and a lot of times getting shot at.

Really?

A lot of dead bodies as well?

Yes, a lot of dead bodies.

Have you have you been shot at?

Yes, I have been shot at.

Big adrenaline rush, and exciting, and then really scary at the same time.

Wow.

what were you all actually doing?

Well, in Iraq and Mosul, my dad sometimes helps on the frontline as a part time medic.

And you could say like a news reporter.

And my mom and us kids usually stay back about one or two kilometers.

Depends where the CCP is-- Casualty Collection Point.

And sometimes, my dad would call in on radio or phone and say, there's a bunch of IDPs running away from ISIS.

Can you get the food and water and hand it out to them while they're running away?

So do you feel like you guys are making a difference when you're out there?

I think there might be a difference for that day in that kid's heart just for that afternoon or morning.

At least when they leave, they know they were given something and they had a little bit of fun.

So if it's direct fire, like shoot at each other and you can see each other-- I wouldn't want my family there.

And we try to avoid that because you're going to die, and for what purpose?

But everywhere else, the family is there.

And we have just a rough idea, it's all it is.

Wherever a family is, our family can be.

One particular story they told us about their time in Sudan illustrates why they do what they do and how they do it.

We were all just hiking along to a village that we were going to do a GLC program at and do some dental work.

And we hear a plane fly over us.

And all planes in that area mean that they belong to the North Sudanese Army, which are enemies of the Nuban people.

And so everyone's watching the plane, seeing what it's going to do.

And I decided, no, I'm just going to film it.

And then you hear this whizzing-- like a whistling sound.

[whistling] Hit the ground.

Everybody hits the ground.

There's no real cover.

I was like, why?

I need to get this shot.

I need to get like the mushroom cloud coming up.

As Haley gets down-- puts locks in the camera and films everything.

And she's the first one that runs to the crater, [inaudible].

And she narrates like a little CNN reporter.

You know, here we are about, blah blah.

At 13 years old--calm.

One of the Nuba leaders said, you know, you came with your whole family.

That means we can trust you.

That means you don't want anything.

You brought everything.

We're like this.

It makes us feel like we count.

We're all in this together.

You know who I don't want to be adopted by is you guys.

[laughter] You're out there with your family because there are other people out there with their family.

Well, the main reason we go as a family is because we love each other.

We love doing stuff together.

It's just fun.

Most places are fun.

Some places aren't.

Downtown Mosul in the war was not fun and especially not for my kids, and not for my wife.

There are probably moms who will watch the show and hear you and the danger that you are in-- like the sheer physical danger with your children.

How do you get through moments?

Yeah.

I think there is no criticism I've had that isn't louder than my own head.

I feel the same things.

I grew up in America, so I know what we consider good parenting, good judgment.

But I want to put as much as I know of the eternal in them.

And things that we can't see that we know sustain the soul and the spirit-- you can't live without that stuff.

At the same time, you can say all that and yet you still are faced with some hard situations.

And yes, it's full of challenges.

Yes it's full of dangers.

But the good is always better.

I'm sure in those situations there are moments of doubt.

Everybody makes judgment calls, right?

Yeah You know, what are you going to err on the side of?

More or less life?

Go more life.

You don't know how long you have it anyway.

You want to go and you want to go.

He wants to go.

Their lifestyle means they're always working, always planning for the next mission, and always on the go.

Wow, what is all this?

Oh this is a satellite dish.

God bless you and protect you, in Jesus's name-- all of you-- Amen.

[non-english speech] We sat down with Dave and asked him why?

I'm doing this spiritually because I am grateful to God that he sent Jesus, that He loves us, that I have a chance every day.

Second is intellectual.

Oppression is wrong.

This little girl got raped, this time he got killed.

It's wrong.

And then emotion.

I love these people.

They love me.

Often, they love me first.

And then I learned to love them-- wow.

And then the last one is physical.

I love adventure.

I love action.

I love all that stuff.

Sound of the guns k-k-k-k-k-- I go.

For me, I want to keep it in that order.

The spiritual first.

And then right behind the spiritual, is intellectual and emotional together.

And then last, physical.

Our teams-- they all have different motivations.

I think many of them would share what I just shared with you.

But some would join us because, man, they killed everybody in my family.

It's just wrong.

I want to do something to change my country.

I've seen some things and read some things that the criticisms of potentially, you're doing things that are too dangerous or whatever.

I think it comes back to your motivation.

My motives are often mixed.

And I'm ashamed to admit it, but you know it's true anyway.

Sometimes my motives aren't even good.

I am doing this for the action.

Or, this is fun.

Or, I'm really mad of ISIS, man, I'm going to take care of those guys.

Selfish, they're all selfish basically.

And what I try to do is say, Lord, let's be honest with me and you.

I have all those temptations but I don't want to follow that.

I don't want that to be my reason.

I want the reason to be because, man, that person counts.

And you care for them and I care for them.

And you've given me the ability and some friends to actually do something.

And if I do that, it seems to work.

And I remember when I was behind the tank on June the 2nd.

ISIS just hammer-- t-k-t-t-t-t. And they're trying to blow the tank up.

They've already blown up other armor.

Anybody on the street is dead, there's dead people.

There's actually three left alive against the wall, a little girl and two men.

We're trying to save them.

And the tank shooting back.

[shooting noise] the main gun.

And if you get out from behind that tank to go rescue the girl, you're a dead man.

Probably.

There's bullets everywhere and there's bodies to prove-- bodies everywhere.

If that was my kid, would I want someone to try, even if they died?

Yes, please try.

And I looked at it.

And I thought, if I die doing this, my wife and kids will understand that it was for love.

There's no other reason.

There's no benefit.

I'm probably going to die.

It's for love.

So I went.

[gunshots] I pull her off.

Fell down.

Bullets everywhere.

They didn't hit me.

And I came back, and around the corner I go, ah.

And that was a combination of relief, fear, and amazement-- this girl's alive.

I'm alive.

Wow.

That's what we want our motives to be.

They aren't always that way.

You guys are taking-- it feels like you guys are taking a hard road.

You're not taking an easy road.

I mean, there's a lot that one could do to help in some of these situations.

But, do you feel like that it's important?

Are you making a difference?

I-- in my belief-- I think God's making the difference through us.

But I believe God wants to be in partnership with us.

He gave us this role.

You can do what you want.

You can burn it down, you can build it up.

And there's a difference between saying, God this, God that-- it has to be this way.

God doesn't force anybody to do anything.

So we as Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, we don't need to force anybody that you have to do this you have to do that.

We have the freedom to choose.

But real change, I think, is coming from God.

And if you don't want to use "God," I would call it love.

Real change comes from one.

[music playing] Whether you agree with their motives, their tactics, or their choices, the Eubanks are trying to make a positive difference in people's lives in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, regardless of their faith or ethnic background.

And they're committed to doing it as a family, no matter the cost.

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