Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates.

On today's show, I have a very special guest. His name is Jared Alexander. He's just published a book, November 9th, 2021.

Really a fascinating book titled Volunteers Growing Up in the Forever War. And his website is his name, Jaredander.com but this uh book goes back in detail about

his life kind of in the military family and he ended up going down that same path but he can

talk more about that so jared alexander welcome to the show thanks for having me william i

appreciate this.

I thought I'd start with just a little re here.

Yeah, please do.

Please do.

I can still taste of this.

All right.

Oscar Marike.

The Marines are on the move.

We are the devil dogs, the leathernecks, the shock troops, and the hard chargers.

All born to kill members of the suck, the Green Winnie, the Ron Guncks, the shock troops, and the hard chargers, all born to kill

members of the Suck, the Green Winnie, the Ron Gun Club, the Hard Corps, Our Corps, the United

States Marine Corps. We are modern era visigoths with a bigger budget and better armor.

Vikings of the Western world complete with health care and heavy artillery. The Marine Corps

is like a high school gym class with

guns. When we flashed down the highway in western Iraq like a full court press, rumbling with the

menace of our V8 diesels in a long roaring column of dusty armor, spiked with machine guns and

automatic grenade launchers, littered with radios, hunting knives, and cans of high octane energy drinks.

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