Hey everybody, welcome to part four of our evolution of seed series.

I'm Flash McVeigh. I'm here with Vandalman, and we're going to talk about Operation Iraqi Freedom,

the lead up, the aftermath, and just kind of really focusing on that night one of Weaselan

on the invasion of Iraq in March 19th of 2003.

So as we kind of have done in the past, we had the intro.

We had part one of linebacker one and two in the Vietnam more, really getting into the

history of the weasels.

And then part two, talking to curly pants for Desert Storm, part three, blink, blink,

and stop with Operation Allied Force.

And now we're here talking with vandal

about the long and illustrious history of the weasels and kind of the weasel spirit and culture

so thanks for supporting the podcast subscribe get the newsletter all those different things

but with that vandal thanks for joining me man uh quick intro how did you get in the military, brief, like overall history of the career,

and then we'll jump right in to the good stuff.

Awesome.

Hey, by the way, I'm really glad you got to connect with Blink.

I know we talked about that last week.

He was my DO at WIC, so great good.

Anyway, so how did I get into it? If you ask my mom, she says I was, you know,

making airplanes out of Bobby, her Bobby pins before I could talk and things like that. And that's the

only thing I'd ever wanted to do, apparently, right? Obviously, she remembers that better than me.

So I knew from a very young age that just for I don't

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