This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Carr.

Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit Union.

Today is a listener, Q and A. So if you're not following Danger Close Podcast on Instagram,

that is where we usually get these questions from.

So, follow Danger Close Podcast on Instagram, and every now and again we'll throw up a listener question post,

and you can submit your questions right there.

With your affinity for Magnum PI, should we picture Tom Selik as Thomas Reese?

Maybe, maybe, good catch, good catch.

Here's another one.

I know you've said you always wanted to be a seal and a writer.

You never seem to blur lines, meaning whatever your job is, then that's your focus.

While you were a seal, did you ever write a short story or something of the sort?

You may one day print or share.

I did not.

I continued reading, of course, studying warfare.

That's what I've always done my entire life.

So anything new that was coming out on the academic side of the house,

or on a lessons learned after action review side of the house,

I would read, because that's what I thought that I owed my profession.

That's what I owed the guys to my right and left, owed those who I was leading into combat.

What I owed the mission, the country, what I owed those guys' families that I was taking down range.

So, always studying warfare, terrorism, insurgency, counterinsurgencies, and always reading.

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