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We're always looking for ways to make SpyCast better and you can help. I'll just take it from the top so I just wonder if to start if you could both

tell us a brief recap of your careers some of the things that you have been up to.

Zachary. So I've been an also analyst for going on 20 years now. I joined the Army shortly after the September 11th

attacks in 2001. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan as an intelligence analyst both at the at the tactical and the operational

level of the infantry battalion and the brigade.

I also served as an instructor teaching new intelligence officers after those combat deployments for a couple of years.

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