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Today, we're going to get into kind of let the story and we're going to talk about, you know, something that happened in the past around the Vietnam era.

And I brought on Charles Cunningham, who is a former police officer, former FBI.

Charles, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Rad. I'm looking forward to talking to you today.

Now, I just want to introduce you. You reached out to us because you listened to the show and you said, hey, I have a story.

I did. I did. And I think it's a fantastic story for your viewers and what you're doing with the special forces kind of framework kind of thing.

So I think, yeah, the community, I think though, I think the like this story, number one, because it's a true story.

And you'll see that truth, you know, there's nothing greater than the truth to hear unbelievable story kind of thing.

So once I get into it, I'll let you know about it.

So you come from a background of Pennsylvania, right? Is that right? You were a PA law dog out there.

Yeah, actually, I was MP military police. I was in the Air Force from 72 to 76. And I had always wanted to be a police officer.

So when I got out of the military that prepared me for that, I became a local police officer in Pennsylvania.

And then I became a state trooper in Pennsylvania. And ultimately, I tested for the FBI and passed their test and went to be an FBI agent.

Oh, I see. And so how long, how old were you when you got to be an FBI agent? Isn't there like a time?

Yeah, like kind of like an eight hours that like, go ahead.

It is. It's a 37. You can't be older than 37 when you enter because it's a mandatory retirement of 57.

So that was about 29 and that actually happened to be, it's about the middle average age for someone to enter because they don't take young people really.

They look for season people. People have some experience and things like that. That's what they're the FBI is looking for.

Yeah, someone who probably doesn't get homesick too often. Yeah, that's right.

That's right. That's right because that happens. And I think you can break that from going to Boy Scout camp, you know, for a three or seven day excursion with your scouting troopers, some friends in the neighborhood, go camping away from the house, join the military.

That'll teach you how to not be homesick locally like, oh, wait.

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