Hello, friends, and welcome to episode number 344 of the way I heard it. This one is called

It's a Wonderful Life with Body Armor. As always, a terrific quote from another terrific

guest, Scott Mann. Chuck, you want to take a crack at his curriculum, Viette? And I'm asking that, assuming you're

going to say no, because it would take 10 minutes to explain all the incredible things this cat has done.

He's done a lot of things. I'm going to go with no. All right. Then I'll do it. First and foremost,

he was approached by a green beret when he was 14 years old a soldier named mark and uh mark had an

impression on young scot man so much so that he went off to become a green beret himself and uh he spent

years multiple tours many many visits to to Afghanistan. He saw some things.

He did some things.

He was shot at many, many times, and he shot back, and in his own words, he put a lot of people in the ground.

And he struggled with that mightily over the years.

9-11, as you might imagine, was a very difficult time for lieutenant

colonel Scott Mann. He got out, I think, in 2013, and then all hell broke loose a couple years ago

during what, I'll just say it, appears to be one of the most botched military retreats in the

history of the military.

Not since...

I thought it was successful.

I thought it was the unprecedented success.

No?

No.

Getting out of Afghanistan, the debacle at Abbey Gate, the human tragedy that happened,

it still upsets a lot of people chuck you'll recall

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