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straight talk with the guys in the community. Hello again everyone welcome back to software up radio

on time on target you're on the air today with Steve Valestrary I'm your host today

we have a very special guest with this. Joe can. Joe is a former Army Ranger. He was in the

second Ranger Battalion part of the Ranger Regiment. He then joined special forces. I believe he was in the fifth special forces group.

He did 11 deployments in combat. He ended up retiring as a chief foreign officer out of the US Army. He was also for a

Special Forces guy which is rare. he's a gold star husband.

His wife, Shannon Kent, was the US Navy's intelligence operative who was killed in Syria a few years ago. I'm sure most of our

listeners are well aware of that. So we're going to talk to Joe about all of that, but

before we go any further, we want to welcome them to the podcast.

Joe thank you for taking the time this afternoon and welcome to software video and by

the way Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas thanks Merry Christmas.

Thanks for having me on.

Been listening to you guys for quite a while now, so pretty cool to be actually on the podcast.

Well, we're very glad to have you, sir.

So, you know, fill in our listeners about how you came to be in the military and you know you can put in some of the highlights. I don't know if anything's classified you that you can't talk about but just fill us in briefly on that and we'll go from there.

Sure, yeah, I pretty much got to live out my you know childhood dreams as far back as I can remember I wanted to be a military guy

commando of some sort so you know growing up in the in the 90s there wasn't a ton of

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