I'm Clint Emerson and welcome to season two of can you survive this podcast, where the interview is just as dangerous as the scenarios I put my guests through.

From hostage situations to natural disasters, car jackings, active shooters, and more,

if you're looking for the skills necessary to survive these situations,

then this is the show for you.

Thank you for listening to another episode of Can You Survive This Podcast?

Today I've got an awesome guest.

He's a good friend and mentor.

He's a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned his first degree Black Belt in Taekwondo

while serving alongside Korean Marines in Vietnam in 1968.

He also holds a master's rank in combat cane spinning in the American cane self-defense

system, and he is an intelligence historian, a best-selling author, and the founding board member of the International

Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Thanks for being on the show, Keith Melton.

A pleasure to be with you as always, my friend. Yeah, buddy. So let's dig into this. You know,

we, you know, unbeknownst to the listeners, we've had a practice run with this.

And we had some technical glitches.

And now we, uh, we get to do it nice and clean this time around.

We'll see how it goes, right?

Yes.

So we, uh, I think, uh, let's dial back.

You, uh, the highlights from me, I mean mean you've got a lot of highlights in your life you've you've lived you know three or four average person's lives already and you're still one of the most productive energized people i know um you know just getting shit done on a regular basis, which is always just

awesome to see. I think you got more energy than I do half the time. So good on you. So let's

start with Naval Academy and then heading out the door to Vietnam. What was that like?

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