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Congressman Michael Waltz, Colonel, Green Beret, and Author

SOFREP Radio

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Entertainment News, Government, News, History

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s podcast, Rad interviews Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida's 6th congressional district. He is a current Green Beret who also serves as a Colonel in the National Guard. He is the author of a couple of books including Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan.

Rep. Waltz shares that one time he jumped out of a plane only to realize his reserve chutes were undone. He also talks about his upcoming children's book Dawn of the Brave. He comments on the waning sense of duty of Americans and taking the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan.

On immigration, Rep. Waltz also stresses the need for a managed system. There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern border and cartels make hundreds of millions per week due to smuggling and human trafficking. Lastly, Rep. Waltz also warns against the CCP and how they are undermining the US.

 




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0:00.0

You're listening to software, radio, special operations, military meals and straight talk with the guys in the community.

0:30.0

Hey, this is rad with software, radio, and you are joining me live right now with congressman Michael Waltz, former or green beret, I believe.

0:50.0

Yeah.

0:51.0

Colonel, correct sir?

0:53.0

That's right, so go in.

0:54.0

I think we're pretty sure I'm going through our congress jumping out of airplanes.

0:58.0

Yes, right, right.

0:59.0

Now, speaking of jumping out of airplanes, you're airborne.

1:02.0

I ask a lot of my guests that are airborne. Have you ever had some type of crazy issue that you had to just recover while you're in flight or jumping out of an airplane?

1:13.0

Yeah, actually, it was jumping over in these years and looked down as we were, you know, as I was headed down towards the Sahara Desert and my reserve was dangling down my legs.

1:26.0

Now, like to this day, the jump masters, I mean, no one who was an expert could figure out how both my clips that hold the reserve in place came undone.

1:35.0

But thank God I didn't need it that day because it wasn't there.

1:38.0

Oh, man, that's crazy and your thoughts are just probably running a million miles an hour.

1:43.0

You're thinking through the whole process, yeah.

1:46.0

Yeah, actually looking up to make sure your main main shoot is there and operational.

1:51.0

But man, you know, I mean, jumping with foreign militaries out of foreign aircraft and just different systems.

1:59.0

It makes it interesting, but I have to just tell you real quick, the best one I've ever done was recently I jumped on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

2:08.0

Oh, over St. Mary Police, which is where the 82nd Airborne jumped on June 5th, 1944 out of an original World War II C-47 that's still flying 80 years later.

2:20.0

But the coolest thing was I did it with a 92 year old paratrooper.

2:26.0

The last time he had jumped was 1944 and here he was jumping.

2:30.0

He was tandem with a greenberry buddy of mine, but he was hooting and hollering all the way down to the ground.

2:35.0

And he yelled out, this was a hell of a lot more funny and shot at by the Germans.

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