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Ramon Castro Continues His Fight

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4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, SOFREP senior editor and SOFREP Radio host Steve Balestrieri catches up with Marine Corps veteran and founder of American Veterans Homefront Initiative Ramon Castro in his journey along the southern U.S. border.

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0:00.0

BLEUTE FOR US. If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're listening to software

0:22.4

radio, special operations, military meals, and straight talk with the guys in the community.

0:42.5

Hello, everyone. Welcome back to software radio. Software

0:45.9

radio on time on target. I am your host today, Steve Valshury. Joining us once again is Ramon Castro.

0:54.8

Ramon is representing American Veterans' Homefront Initiative. We've had Ramon on the

1:03.2

podcast before, and for those of you who don't remember or didn't tune in for that particular

1:10.4

episode, he's walking about 2,000 miles from San Diego, California, all across the United States

1:21.4

Southern border, you know, California, Arizona, New Mexico. He's now in West Texas. He's checking in

1:29.3

with us, and you know, we're going to talk to him about the Homefront Initiative and what it's

1:35.6

all about. So we want to welcome him back, Ramon. How'd them feed holding that, bro?

1:42.2

Yeah, you know what, you'd be, well, you know, you'd be in the special forces of what,

1:47.6

you know, a resilient body can be. Once you put it under a little bit of stress, you can

1:52.8

really test it, and you know, most of the time as you do it, right, take care of it, it'll bounce

1:57.7

back and, you know, help you out. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, well, you know, when you first start off,

2:04.0

I'm sure your feet were kind of like hamburger, and then they're like anything, it's just your

2:09.6

feet are like a good pair of boots, they get broken into that walk, and I'm sure now they're

2:15.9

a lot better off than you were in that first, probably four or five days, huh?

2:21.5

Yeah, yeah, no, it was, it was, it was brutal. I would say, I think when you and I had a first

2:27.3

talk, I think I was, I was on my way back to returning rental vehicle. It was, I was taking,

2:32.4

I had to schedule two days of rest, because then I think if I didn't, if I hadn't done that,

2:37.7

it gave my body time recover from that first week of breaking it in, I might not be where we're at

2:44.0

now, but so that helped, yeah, my feet were, they're still, I wouldn't say 100%, but, you know,

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