My name is Jack Carr. I spent 20 years as a Navy SEAL, where I served as a team leader,

a team commander, troop commander, task unit commander, and sniper. Now I'm an author behind

the New York Times best-selling terminal list series. Inspired by the feelings and emotions

of actual experiences serving in conflict areas around the globe, the novels follow James

Reese, a Navy SEAL sniper who becomes embroiled in the world of conspiracies, international

espionage, and revenge. On my New Danger Close podcast, I take you beyond the books for

conversations with real life lawyers, tactical experts, historians, politicians, hunters,

entrepreneurs, newsmakers, and fellow writers for a peak behind the curtain.

Any time you throw a sniper into a mix, you're not de-escalating anything. It's going

to get a little rowdy. By the way, not very many people know this at all. So I'm doing

this because we're friends. Like I said, it's super hard to have a bad day when you're

being in Apache pilot. The first time you shoot that 30-millimeter cannon, and it's

right under the aircraft and it shoots, and it's like your chest is getting thumped

and it's like this jackhammer and the whole aircraft shakes, and you're like this is

the best job in the world. The worst is we're assuming along with your

buddy, and all of a sudden he grabs your legs and you can hear me yell underwater, and

he just think he's got something coming in with their mouth open, you know. So I said,

all right, let me see this. We got an abandoned airspace, an air force space we got.

The observatory, we got mysterious lights. I think I could do something with this.

And I got all my tax money in that next minute that I've ever paid an American ammunition

because everyone shot the shit out of everything in front. The whole reason why you join on military,

especially during the time of war, is to go to wars, to support the cause. I'm here,

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