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Hello again everyone, welcome back to software, radio software, radio on time on target. I'm your host

this morning, Steve Veloster. We're joined today by a very special guest, Mark Rosengaard, who comes from

my neck of the woods up in Massachusetts. So, prior to us coming on the air, we were talking about hockey.

So, you know, we had to stop the hockey talk because Mark was, well, he's had a very varied and

interesting career. We're going to get into all that in special operations. But specifically,

today we're going to talk about a task force dagger in the early days of war in Afghanistan as it's

winding down now. So, we want to welcome Mark to the podcast and we're going to get into all that

mark. Thanks for taking the time this morning. How you doing? Great, Steve. Then I appreciate

you reaching out to ask me to join. Good morning everybody. I hope that what we have to talk about will

be interesting to everyone on the audience. I'm sure it will. And, you know, feeling our

listeners a little bit about your career and you had a pretty varied and interesting career of your

own. Sure. I came into the service when I graduated from school in 1979. I was an

instrument to begin with and took a first assignment down at Fort Stewart and chose that was lucky

enough to get what I picked because I wanted to try to get assigned to the to the range of

Italian. It was then THEV range of Italian at that time and thought that that was a neat place to

try to serve and worked out okay for me. I made it, made it through some time of the 24th

degree division and then was picked to be a 2-liter up at the Hunter RBF field as well as some

time there in 175 and learned a lot. I finished my lieutenant and finished my time that I owed

back to the Army for my ROTC scholarship and was making my decision as to what I wanted to do when

I grew up and the Army said, well, we're aware of the fact that you have some far-language

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