240 | Tyr Symank

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Society & Culture, Education

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Special forces veteran and former director of the BRCC Fund Tyr Symank joins the show to talk about his military career as a Green Beret and medic, moving over to contract work with Blackwater, and running a charity foundation for Black Rifle.

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0:00.0	I left Blackwater because I was tired of getting shot at and running away.
0:03.6	You know, for all the rep they have of being cowboys and whatnot, our job was not to stay in engaged protracted fire fights.
0:12.8	Yeah.
0:13.4	And I could see, like I drove through the Nisura Square Ambush five minutes before it happened.
0:20.4	We reported unusual activity there.
0:23.4	I was a federal witness that never got called for that because the defense knocked
0:27.2	I had in the bag.
0:29.0	I just had this feeling that the state partner was going to throw us under the bus.
0:33.1	And they did.
0:34.0	Yeah, they always do.
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.7	Let's go.
0:52.3	Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. It's a hell of a name.
0:52.3	It's a hell of a name.
0:52.7	Hell of a legacy.
0:53.6	So you are, you're a, green beret.
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.2	You're a piece of head gear.
1:00.3	Yeah, fuzzy, hot piece of head gear.
1:03.2	You are, you work in charity stuff now as well.
1:06.9	You've done a lot of cool shit, but we'll get into all of that.
1:09.5	Let's start with, where did you grow up?
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