Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates. On today's show, I have a very special guest. His name is Morgan Lorette. His last name is spelled L-E-R-E-T-T-E. And he just published an excellent book in February 2024, full title. And if you're watching this on YouTube or X or Rockfin is Guns, Girls, and Greed.

I was a Blackwater mercenary in Iraq.

And on Amazon in the U.S. right now, it has 29 five-star reviews.

And I actually listened to this in audiobook.

It's a really good audiobook.

It's narrated by Jay Moore, M.O.H-R. Maybe that name sounds familiar. He's a comedian. I think he was in a couple movies. But he also has a Kindle and a hardcover. But this is a first-person account of what happened in Iraq from somebody who was literally a mercenary, and a pretty interesting

story, and it might be a little graphic, too. So I would recommend maybe this is, you know,

maybe not have somebody who's under 18 in the background when we discuss this book. So Morgan,

Lorette, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. It's funny.

I had a buddy by the book and he loaned it out to somebody that he teaches with.

And her son got a hold of it and started doing a book report on it.

She got called to the principal at her own school.

So yeah, the fourth grader is a little too young, but if you know anybody that served in the military,

they'll get the book.

Right.

And this is a different form of kind of military action, right?

This is a Blackwater.

You were involved in that.

Maybe you can talk about your background, what led up to your involvement with Blackwater and then how you made it to Iraq.

Yeah.

So I joined the Air National Guard in 1999 before all the wars kicked off.

It seemed like the way to get out of small town USA.

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