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Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast.

My guest today is my friend Sean Parnell.

He's been on the podcast before,

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.

So I think this book really captures what it was like for so many people.

And obviously this is your experience, but this right here captures what it was like for so many people over a 20 year period.

So Sean is also a former congressional candidate and has a podcast.

We're gonna get into all that, but man and thank you so much this is my

favorite part of doing the podcast is that we get to catch up. Yeah brother it's great to see you man it's

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

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

Kyle's memorial in Texas.

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.

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.

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.

Can't believe that I lived through that time.

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

weeks and I realized instantly that maybe teaching kids probably like little little kids is

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