BATTLEGROUND with Sean Parnell

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Today’s guest on the Danger Close Podcast with Jack Carr is retired U.S. Army Infantry captain Sean Parnell. As a 10th Mountain Division soldier, Sean served in some of the heaviest combat of the Afghan War. Join Jack and Sean as they discuss Sean’s 485 days of fierce fighting on the Afghan-Pakistan border in 2006-2007 and key leadership take-aways from Sean’s time in service. They also discuss Sean’s two congressional runs and the power, money and manipulations at play from at home and abroad on the U.S. political system. Sean captured his experiences in Afghanistan in the New York Times bestselling book Outlaw Platoon and is currently the host of the Sean Parnell Battle Ground Podcast, which airs daily at 5pm EST. To learn more about Sean, follow him on Instagram @officialseanparnell and visit his website, https://officialseanparnell.com/. SPONSORS: Red Sky Mourning – The 7th novel in the James Reece Terminal List series. Pre-order here - http://jackcarr.co/rsm Bravo Company Manufacturing: Visit us on the web here - http://jackcarr.co/bcm and on Instagram @BravoCompanyUSA SIG: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the legendary SIG SAUER P226. Learn more here - https://jackcarr.co/40th-p226 Jack Carr Gear: Explore the gear here - https://jackcarr.co/gear

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0:00.0	This special episode of the Danger Close Podcast is brought to you by Red Sky Morning, the seventh novel in the James Reese Terminal this series.
0:08.0	It is coming in hot on May 14th and hardcover, ebook and audio book.
0:12.2	Go to official Jack Carr dot com
0:14.0	to pre-order your copy today.
0:16.3	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast.
0:18.1	My guest today is my friend Sean Parnell.
0:21.0	He's been on the podcast before,
0:22.2	as I've been on his, he's the author of Outlaw Platoon and Out of platoon is one of, if not the best book that I've ever read that really takes you into what it felt like to be on the ground in Afghanistan.
0:34.0	So I think this book really captures what it was like for so many people.
0:39.9	And obviously this is your experience, but this right here captures what it was like for so many people over a 20 year period.
0:47.2	So Sean is also a former congressional candidate and has a podcast.
0:52.1	We're gonna get into all that, but man and thank you so much this is my
0:55.3	favorite part of doing the podcast is that we get to catch up. Yeah brother it's great to see you man it's
1:00.3	great to see you and thanks for that cool intro and you have a hard cover of Outlaw platoon I can't even find hard covers of that book. It's crazy
1:07.4	Yeah, of course absolutely 2012 and we met after this thing came out we met in 2013 Unfortunately unfortunately it wasn't under the best circumstances on the bus on the way to Chris
1:17.8	Kyle's memorial in Texas.
1:21.0	But yeah, we'll get into all that though, but I want to start off because people who haven't, for some reason, someone hasn't watched your podcast or didn't listen to our last one.
1:30.0	Take me the morning of September 11th because that was a pretty pivotal morning for you and would lead into what you write about here in at Laplton.
1:40.0	Yeah boy, you know, I think back about that time in my life and so much of it just seems surreal, almost like a fever dream.
1:48.0	Can't believe that I lived through that time.
1:52.0	But September 11th, right? Like I was a nothing burger college kid. I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life. I was an elementary education major, but you know a student taught second grade for a few
2:04.7	weeks and I realized instantly that maybe teaching kids probably like little little kids is
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