So you got out of the military in 2011.

This is how I understand the genesis of the book that comes out today, the Fort Bragg Cartel.

You get out in 2011, you're a reporter.

At some point, you start to understand that there are a lot of deaths at Fort Bragg,

which is America's biggest Army base, some of the special forces.

And you start to investigate those deaths.

That's right.

I first read about a double homicide on Fort Bragg that took place at the tail end of 2020.

Just an ordinary article in the New York Times that said that these two veteran special

operation soldiers, Billy Levine and Timothy Dumas, have been found murdered on a remote

training range of Fort Bragg.

They had both been shot to death and their bodies have been dumped in the woods. I also read that Billy Levine was a Delta Force operator.

And in all my time reporting on the military, working as a war reporter, and then before that, serving in the Army myself, I had never heard of a Delta Force operator being in the news for any reason,

because it's the most secretive and elite unit in the entire military.

And the police were saying that this was believed to be a double homicide from a drug deal gone wrong.

And so I knew that there had to be more to the

story because you can imagine if like, let's say a CIA agent was found shot to death and dumped

in a park in Maryland or something like that. And the police were saying it was a drug deal. I mean,

that's the level of secrecy and that's how elite Delta Force is. What is Delta Force?

Delta Force is what's called a special mission unit. It is an army unit. It's part of what's called

the Joint Special Operations Command. It was created in the late 1970s to be an elite counterterrorism

force for things like hostage rescue. For many years they were obsessed with the problem or the

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