In the Trenches with War Correspondent Kevin Maurer

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is an award-winning war correspondent and New York Times bestselling author whose writing has been featured in outlets including GQ, Men’s Journal, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post.

Kevin Maurer's books include Rock Force, American Radical (with Tamer Elnoury), No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (with Mark Owen), Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America’s Elite Special Forces, No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan (with Mitch Weiss), Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds (with Rusty Bradley), No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL (with Mark Owen), Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World’s Most Famous Revolutionary, Valleys of Death: A Memoir of the Korean War (with Bill Richardson), the graphic novel Six Days: The Incredible Story of D-Day’s Lost Chapter, and his latest, Damn Lucky: One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History .

You can learn more about Kevin and his work at kevinmaurer.net

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0:00.0	This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carter.
0:17.2	Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.3	Union.
0:22.3	I guess today, Kevin Mauer, he's a journalist and author.
0:26.6	We just did a podcast with the subject of his latest book, Damn Lucky, that is John
0:32.8	Lucky, Lucky Pilot in World War Two, who flew the B-17 flying fortress.
0:38.8	Just an incredible story.
0:40.2	So this is his latest, but he's also written hunting chae and we got to know each other
0:44.8	after he wrote No Easy Day and No Hero with my friend Mark Owen.
0:50.4	So we get into a whole host of things on this podcast to include what it was like to work
0:56.2	with such an incredible person in John Lucky, Lucky to tell this story.
1:01.0	So now, without further ado, Kevin Mauer.
1:05.2	Dude.
1:06.2	Yeah.
1:07.2	I mean, he's an amazing guy.
1:15.4	If you made him up, if you were writing a World War Two historical fiction novel and
1:21.7	you named your character Lucky Lucky, you'd gone too far, but the guy is real and what stuck
1:28.4	with me about this whole story is how so much of it circles back on it on each other,
1:35.5	right?
1:36.5	You meet Sully.
1:37.5	Like you said, you kind of knew where Sully was going to go and to see that and then to
1:40.0	be able to find his diary at the Chattanooga, they had digitized it at the University of
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