Welcome to the Team VTAC podcast. I'm your host, Kyle Lamb. We've been a little bad about

getting things recorded lately, but I finally lured this guy in from the other side of Tennessee

to come over here and do a little recording with me. I think you guys are going to find

this. I think you'll find it interesting because I found one. His story is interesting,

too. His books are super interesting, too. Dustin Solomon, what do you think, man?

Happy to be here. You got a beautiful place, man. Thank you. I'm glad you found out that

Google doesn't tell you exactly where I live. So you have to circle the property a little

bit to find exactly where the hole in the concertina wire is. That's right. I definitely

failed land. No, I think you were all. It kind of depends on what you use to get here.

And sometimes it's funny. I can use the same one. It'll tell me right where if I'm telling

people, I go, no, that's not right. And then I'll reboot the computer and then all of

a sudden it's in the right spot. So it's, I think I had where you were. I just wasn't

sure how to get there without jumping out of the car and going over there. I've been

a little overland. So like I was saying there, we've been a little, I've been a little slow on

getting podcasts because I'm just not traveling as much as I normally do. And I think I kind of got

burned out because I was thinking, man, I've talked to all my buddies and I've got this list and

you've been on my list for, I don't know, two years to try to sit down and talk. And finally,

well, we'll get to your latest book. But anyway, finally, we got linked up here and I'm excited

to have you, man, that's going to be cool. So yeah, I'm glad to be here. Why don't you kind of walk

us through, you don't have to go back to like the pre-pubescent years, but just once you,

once you got out of high school, can you kind of take us through what you're, where you went and

yeah. So graduate from high school went to the Naval Academy and went there because I wanted to be

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