Ladies and gentlemen, today's episode of the podcast is brought to you by the C4 Foundation,

which was established in the memory of a young man that I had the privilege to put through

basic underwater demolition slash seal training, and then also serve alongside with at

Seal Team 3.

And his name was Charles Humphrey Keating IV, or Charlie or C4, because obviously that's

all a mouthful.

And he was killed in Iraq in a firefight, engaging ISIS.

His actions that day and throughout that deployment earned him multiple awards for valor to include

the Navy Cross, which if you're familiar with the US military, that is the second highest

award.

The C4 Foundation, the core mission is to preserve and strengthen the Seal Family Unit.

Just like everybody has likely felt during this pandemic time period, there's the connection

and importance of your loved ones.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but you probably feel a deeper and more meaningful connection.

The people who voluntarily go overseas and even maybe perhaps more importantly their

families have dealt with constant deployment and training cycles for the last 20 years.

And this foundation is aimed at ensuring they maximize their time together in order

to fortify their families to withstand the stressors of that occupation and lifestyle.

The job was, I don't want to call him a kid because he wasn't a kid, but I actually remember

very few people that I put through training and I do remember Chuck.

And I looked at him and I remember looking at him as a kid and that and he wasn't.

He was every inch a man and people often will ask me why I consider my career to be average

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