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Hello everyone and welcome back to software, radio, software, radio on time on target.

I'm your host this afternoon Steve Ballister, joining us, I should say joining us, we have a very special guest, Dan Schilling.

He's an author, he spent 30 years in the military, mostly as an Air Force combat controller and a special tactics officer.

But he started his career as many of us did as an infantry grunt, so we're going to get into all that.

But Dan, he's been all around the world, he was in Somalia, which most of us know is Black Hawk Down.

He worked with Rangers, he worked with CLC, worked with SF guys, he worked with JSOC, he's written a bunch of books.

We're going to be talking about his new book, The Power of Awareness in just a few minutes, but first we want to welcome him as a podcast.

Dan, thanks for taking the time to join us this afternoon, I know we were cutting into some of your recreation time today, so we appreciate it.

Steve, it's my pleasure to be here, this is a great radio program, I'm really excited to be on, and I think we're going to touch on some interesting stuff, interesting stuff.

I was supposed to be skiing this morning, but I'd rather be doing this interview, and the snow's getting pretty crappy anyway.

As I told you offline, we don't have much snow down here in Florida, so if you're going skiing, it's usually on the water down here, and you got to avoid the alligators on the river.

Yeah, I prefer the frozen water, frankly.

Yeah, there you go.

You know, before we get into your military career, I know that, you know, in your book, you mentioned that it's also on your website, you hold the Guinness World Record for the most base jumps in 24 hours, 201.

And I have to ask you about this because, you know, I know how many parachutes did you actually use on that day?

I had 24 base rigs, and I had 15 packers who were all obviously base jumpers, and then some of the best base jumpers in the world, actually, I was really fortunate to have a lot of great support from this, it was really tightening community, especially back then.

And they still on managed to almost kill me three times in the first couple hours, but we got past that man that worked out, so.

201 base jumps in one day, you know, that is a pair of shooters, and, you know, I love jumping.

That's one thing I've never done, I have never base jumped, and you talked about it in your book, and that's one of your passions, isn't it?

It is, and it's, you know, as a, like, you know, as a halo guy forever, and I was a pro rated demonstration skydiver, you know, I did a lot of skydiving on the weekends, and that kind of stuff.

But, man, base jumping is a different thing, it has a different vibe to it, there's no airplane, there's no noise, you have to usually climb or hike or, you know, clandestinely method of entry get into a building in Las Vegas, not that I have jumped off of hotels in Las Vegas or anything.

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