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Hello everyone and welcome back to software radio. Software radio on time on target. I'm your

host today. Steve Valsher joining us. We have a very special guest. John Hancock was a member

second battalion fourth Marines fought in Iraq during the Battle of Ramadi. I believe it was 2004. John

his unit suffered probably the highest casualty rate of anyone during the Iraq war. I believe it was

one out of every four members of his unit was a casualty. He either wounded or killed in action

with a lot of other people. John suffered from PTSD and he found some solace and some closure a little

bit, well not closure, but some help with that by walking across the United States and visiting

members of the unit, visiting members of the Gold Star families. It is an incredible story and

we're going to welcome them to the podcast and we'll talk to them about that. John, thank you for

taking the time with us this morning and this is a big pleasure for us. Thank you so much for having

me brother really. I read and subscribe and watch all the software steps so it's really kind of

humbling to be here and to be on it. Well we're humbled because after I read your story and I remember

seeing something on CNN about it and it's amazing because you covered about 9,000 kilometers

when she turns out which I did I can't do the math so I had to ask you offline about it 5,800 and

seven miles. Yeah it was a really long one so it ended up starting September 11th 2015 at

115 in the morning. I ended December 12th 2016 so that roughly rounds out to about one year,

three months in a day of walking. What was the average in about 25, 30 miles a day?

Yeah I did about you know on the low end I'd do about 28 on the high end I'd do about 32.

One day I did 45 miles and I'll never do that ever again. I used to think I was a rucking fool

when I was in SF. I'm here to tell you John the nope. I guess my hats off to you bro because that

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