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It's not going in. We're just going to keep on bringing legends because really that's what Air Force Special Warfare produces today. I have retired major John Korn go by JK. Appreciate you joining us, sir.

Sure. And thanks for having me.

Of course. So we were kind of connected through Tommy Howard. He is, you know, the son or the prodigy of another legend who's no longer with us. But, you know, we've had, we've had Mike Lampion. We've had Wayne Nora on. And now we have you as part of our kind of ongoing series. So if you don't mind, we dive into a little bit of kind of where you came from and how you started out.

To enter special tactics.

Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And excuse me mentioning Wayne and Mike, they're good friends. And they know all my sins. So I have to be careful.

Yeah. So we got to keep that closet closed and I like the bones fall out. Tommy is a, is a neighbor who we reconnected.

And the fact that I worked closely with Tommy's father, Clyde Howard and in Southeast Asia and in combat and shared with him recently in November.

Some pictures he's never seen that I took and talked about his father's role working with us and on the early brand X days. So we can go into that. So yeah, it's good to see Tommy. I might see him tonight.

I've been going to Armed Forces.

A bowl game that Air Force and Baylor is at. We're going to freeze our butt off, but we're in front.

That's going to be a little, little chilly. I want to say, and I, please correct me if I'm wrong. It's either yesterday or today.

Is, is the anniversary of Clyde's death, correct?

Yes, I think it was yesterday. And I think it was about 11, 11 or 12 years ago, 11 years ago.

And I saw Tommy post that and yeah, he was sudden as I understand it.

And it was also our anniversary two days ago of our invasion of Panama as well.

Yeah. So that was another operation I was on and was proud to be there with great, great people, great men.

Yeah, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to jump in, you know, too far ahead here, but like we just, I just had, I say, I, we just had way nor add on for kind of round two.

And he was start, he started talking about the Panama and stuff like that. So that was, that was great here and hearing all those kind of individual stories.

So how did you, how did you find your way into special tactics or at the time, you know,

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