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Hey, what's going on? It's Brad and I just hit record on another episode of soft rep radio.

But today I have kind of like, you know, someone very special to talk to, major, major Fred Galvin.

So I read Fred's story and he should be a Lieutenant Colonel listeners.

Alright, so I just want to let you know that's why I feel like I should call him Lieutenant Colonel because my hair tingles on the back of my neck and the face to salute him as a Lieutenant Colonel because he earned that rank.

And so I just want to make sure that as you listen to the story that Fred's going to talk about, I want you to think of him as a Lieutenant Colonel because he deserves that and he should have that on his DD214 at the least, at the least.

So Fred, Lieutenant Colonel, major, Marine, human being on this earth. Welcome to soft rep.

Thank you very much, Brad. It's awesome to be here.

Yeah, it is. It's awesome. And I hate to have you here because the story that you have to tell is not one that I would ever want to be put into.

It's one that you've been thrusted into. This is not a Hollywood book that you have to unless you have it.

I'm just going to say this is like real deal, you know, you were dealing with UC MJ, which is uniform code of military justice all over you.

You're probably dealing with Geneva conventions, people, war crimes coming at you.

You were caught inside of a situation that I have never been involved in nor have I ever had round shot at me in hate.

Okay. So for those of us about to listen to Fred's story, I want you to understand we weren't there.

We weren't there at the time of day when the sun was hitting the sand that they were stepping on.

We don't understand the situation that presented to themselves. They do. He does.

So this story is Fred's story. And Fred, I just want to ask before you know, I know that the situation is atrocities during, you know, the global war on terror where you were so calm commander, which is special aspect of Operation Command.

That's when the Marine Corps finally decided to have their own separate entity to run Marsock.

And you became the commander of the first, I want to say detachment commander to go overseas and deploy with that Marsock unit to get into combat and defend, you know, the global war on terrorism.

Am I close to just breaking that down?

Actually, the first one, it was a, we were accompanying. So it wasn't a detachment technically.

Okay.

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