Last week, we talked to Brandon Wamba about his personal journey out of Marsok to T-Rex and his testimony.

And today, we're going to take that exact same topic. We're going to open it up to the wider culture, gun culture, and veterans in general with a good friend of mine.

Welcome back to another episode of T-Rex Talk.

And today my guest is a friend of mine.

Forrest Cooper is the host of a podcast called Redacted.

And you have some other things in your resume.

So can you just run through those things for the folks who are listening, the T-Rex audience?

Yeah, I'll preface it with.

The resume is always context, not qualifications.

So the short history of where I've been for the last 15 years is homeschooled

as a kid. Ranger Battalion right out of high school, went into the army, went over into

375 or 375 or 3rd Ranger Battalion. I was there for just shy of five years and ended up being

four deployments and team leader time. And for those who know about and are familiar with kind of the structure of Ranger Battalion,

a very classic one enlistment time.

And that was around the 2009, 10, 12, 13 kind of time frame.

That I've worked other than there, after I left the military,

I've worked in the private contracting space, which is also a lot of kind of if you know you know conversations.

And then after a while, I decided to leave all that behind, go to school, and got a degree in

philosophy and a degree in theology with a minor in history. And so I found out that I not only

enjoyed academia, but it was something that I was fairly decent at.

But as things would change, I would get back into it.

And so I've worked in various security, contracting, traveling kind of environments.

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