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All right, y'all, introducing Tony Aguilar, retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army,

and including Special Forces.

Welcome to the show. How are you doing?

I'm doing well. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Very happy to have you here on the show. I don't want to take up too much of your time.

It's Friday afternoon, and I know you've kind of been doing the rounds explaining yourself.

I'm not going to waste any of your time asking you to confront the bogus accusations against you.

Anyone can see how all that's already debunked by you and by others on Tucker and on the Twitters and whatever.

So I just want to hear your actual story.

Starting, if you could, please, sir, just tell us a little bit about your background in the Terror Wars and all of that.

When did you first join the Army and deploy and the rest kind of thing?

So I entered, started my career when I took my oath and entered the United States

Military Academy in June of 2000 and I commissioned, I initially commissioned as an infantry

officer. And then after about three years as an infantry officer,

then volunteered and tried out for special forces

and was selected for special forces.

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