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All right, welcome to the Black Rifle Coffee podcast. I've got Mike Durant with us. I think most of you know who he is. He's a really good friend of Clay and Clay's been on the show multiple times now. I wanted to give you an opportunity to introduce yourself and give

everybody kind of the background as far as your bio, your military background. I read your book

and I read obviously other associated books with the mission in Somalia or the combination

of missions in Somalia, but it would be interesting to hear

it from you specifically. So take it away, Mike. All right, sounds great. I appreciate the

opportunity to be on. And yes, Clay and I are very good friends. I've known him since he was a war

not, you know, I'm sure he got into it in your conversations but he was a marine

then he was a war officer then a second lieutenant retires as a two-star general and i've known him

since he was a war officer so most of it i didn't know the marine part but anyhow uh you know it's

and it's guys like that relationships like that that i think uh are what uh are most significant about your time spent in the military in harm's way and, you know, other experiences.

But I think for me anyway, in my life, there's two groups of people.

There's the group that kind of have in my personal world and then the professional world.

And certainly the guys that I serve with in the 160th are in that

very special group.

Right.

And we share a common culture and common beliefs and values and think the same way about our country

and everything else.

So it's just a change my life, honestly.

But to get the clock rewound a little bit, I grew up in the Northeast.

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