American Spirit: Reviving the Warrior Within

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

And to the Republic for which it stands,

One nation, under God, indivisible,

With liberty and justice for all.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

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and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,

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with liberty and justice for all.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and

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to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,

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with liberty and justice for all.

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Good morning, my fellow patriots, and welcome to episode six.

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Hey, today we're going to talk about reviving the warrior within,

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which is the American spirit.

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So be sure to chime in with your knowledge and experience.

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Just email us at podteam at the constitutioncommandos.

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org.

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I'm your host, Chris Williams.

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My brother Patrick is your co host.

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And together, we are the Constitution Commandos.

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All-American Commando: I really am excited about this direction that we're taking

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now, because I feel that instead of me getting on here and bitching, griping,

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and complaining and pointing out things that the people that listen to us already

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know, we're not making a difference.

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We're in an echo chamber and this way.

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I hope I can share knowledge with somebody that has no knowledge.

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I'm trying to break it down in a manner for somebody that has no training

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and that way they can digest it, process it, and hopefully gives them a

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direction to start building knowledge.

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We're

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going to motivate people to look into this stuff and take advantage

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of some of the information they're given.

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Look, I'm all about helping other people.

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And I understand there's not a lot of people that really give

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a shit about you helping them.

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But, was a question of me, my family, my kids, whatever, I would like to know that

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somebody would take an interest in that.

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So that's where I am.

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All-American Commando: Yeah.

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You gotta have allies, man.

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I'm not looking for pats on the back.

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Just You or any other veteran I know, we don't give a damn about accolades.

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We don't give a shit about ticker tape parades.

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Don't even try to give me praises in my name.

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Okay.

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A lot of the awards and the medals that I got, even when I was in the

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army, I wanted to give them back.

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It didn't mean anything to me.

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All I was doing was my job.

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So that's the way I look at this.

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But it's not a job.

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It's a note that took and my word means nothing.

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Yeah.

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Who am I?

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And if it means helping other people be able to take care of themselves, take

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care of their families, possibly work as a community, wherever we may end up, if

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that's what it takes, I'm good with that.

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All-American Commando: And see, this is the other thing about it.

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This direction on our podcast now.

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First off, any nation that thinks they're going to invade

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America is a foolish nation.

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And it's got nothing to do with America's the greatest country in the world.

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It's got nothing to do with we're impenetrable.

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It's got nothing to do with any of that.

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We have enemies all over the world.

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I'm not ever going to say that none of our enemies would ever try.

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But Iran will.

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But Attacking, okay, this is where I'm getting at, basically.

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Let's say it is a far fetched idea.

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There's so many reasons, tactically, that America is

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almost impossible to invade, okay?

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There's too many reasons, actually, but go ahead.

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All-American Commando: Yeah.

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Let's say that we have a red dawn moment.

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Let's say the information that we're passing on to people Let's say that

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we get enough community engagement.

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Let's say that there is enough people out there, average shows, that honest to God,

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put some of this stuff into practice.

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This is almost like building a militia in a sense.

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Not just for self preservation, but preservation of this country.

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And don't think I'm bullshitting.

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I don't think anybody can invade America.

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I really have a hard time.

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Yeah.

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Not with a level of success.

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Yeah.

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There's

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All-American Commando: I might be able to try to invade certain areas.

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I have a hard time.

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I still have a hard time with that one.

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All-American Commando: They would never be able to push into the deep interior.

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It would just be impossible not without a land bridge.

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And then on top of that, they would have so many geographical obstacles

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that are just almost impassable.

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So anyway, regardless I'm not saying it's out of the realm of possibility,

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but The more people in this country that are trained and be selfish,

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look out for your own interests.

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By all means, don't let people take advantage of you or take what you

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got, if it's a survival situation.

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But if we ever wound up in a situation like that, it's basically our differences

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can be put on a back burner and the enemy of my enemy is my new friend.

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So we'll have a common goal.

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It may be a uniting moment, but

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To be honest, I think we already have a common goal.

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I just think.

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And I could be wrong, but I think we all have a common goal.

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We just don't understand that, how is it you put it we may all have

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a different way of going about it, but we do have a common goal.

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I mean that, my thing is this.

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The American spirit was born before America.

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Okay.

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And the thing about the American spirit, I don't guess there's really words

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for a description for the American spirit, but I do know this many

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other countries around the world have desired the same thing that we have.

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And, what I think is important to understand too, is that the

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American spirit is not dead, but the people who possess the American

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spirit have not figured out yet that It's under attack, right?

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And for that American spirit to actually be revitalized, it probably is going to

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take what's coming down the pipes, right?

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And I, I really want to see the American spirit revived.

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What did you call us?

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Colonials.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, we are Colonials.

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Oh, what a bad

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asses.

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All-American Commando: Oh, I'm in the wrong.

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You gotta be shitting me, man.

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Lady.

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She shouldn't have gotten in front of me anyway.

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She from Tennessee, she pulled over in front of me.

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She likes to leave 300 yards in front of her between her and the next vehicle.

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And I, she was really irritating me.

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I wanted her to find a spot in the woods to park her vehicle, but.

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I saw one of those over on the interstate the

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other day, right there on 55.

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Yeah.

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Went straight across the median and hit that K wall on the other side.

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I was like, ah, 20 years ago, that would have been me that put them there.

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All-American Commando: I'm but anyway, yeah,

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but yeah, the American spirit is a beautiful thing.

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And it's amazing to me how so many people just don't see it right now.

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It really is a beautiful thing.

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We're going to see it again.

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All-American Commando: Oh yeah.

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There's no doubt in my mind.

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We're going to see it again.

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Unfortunately, it's probably going to have to go to the extremes,

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but it will revive once again.

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Not looking forward to it though, cause I know what we

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got to go through to get there.

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All-American Commando: We got wide open highway up there.

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We got four lanes of nothing going on.

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And we got between nothing going on and where I'm at, we got

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four lanes of people bullshit.

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But I'd like also, yeah, but I'd like also for people to especially

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the people that have zero Alright.

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have any type of interest in.

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A lot of people think it's just What do they call it?

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Larbinger Larbinge Roleplayer Whatever.

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A good ok

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Alright, go ahead

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All-American Commando: A lot of people know what Airsoft is But it

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is a good resource For the average civilian to go to, you got to buy gear.

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A little baby's hurt when you get shot while by your gear, be safe with it,

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but start going to these airsoft ranges.

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You will meet combat veterans.

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You will meet police officers and SWAT officers.

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You will meet people that have levels of training that do airsoft.

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to maintain a level of situational awareness and things like that.

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Not just that you can go to paint, solve they have war games with

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All-American Commando: they do with paint balls.

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They also, but see the airsoft, you can get rifles that actually

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have a straighter trajectory.

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The airsoft BBs are less effective and they're high enough velocity.

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You don't want to go into airsoft.

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See, paintball, a lot of people will use goggles and no helmet, or they'll go in

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there with no real chest blades, or body, a kit, what they call it, body armor

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airsoft.

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I just know that out there is an option.

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If you don't have the airsoft around.

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All-American Commando: If you have airsoft around or paintball,

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yeah,

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All-American Commando: go to these ranges, talk to people, find groups of veterans

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that utilize these resources, ask them to help you out to get you rigged out

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with gear, to have a good functional kit, ask them to teach you movement

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skills, formations movement, how to clear buildings, These are all things

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that will teach you combat situations.

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And you would be surprised.

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You shot a couple of times in one of those environments, and you'll

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understand that it's not pleasant.

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So it becomes very real in a sense.

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You will feel that.

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The adrenaline rush, you will get yourself in a position to where you might be

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pinned down and you're freaking out.

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You get shot.

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You're not going to die, but it hurts.

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So you're not going to want to get shot.

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It'd be like, Oh, I'm pinned down.

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Yeah.

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And look, I was just in Port Polk.

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We didn't use live rounds.

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We use soft, nothing.

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We didn't use paint balls.

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It was miles gear and blanks.

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Yep.

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And I'm going to tell you,

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I think I called you when I first got back from Fort Polk.

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I was like, I ain't never been so freaked out my damn life.

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It wasn't actually a war situation, but

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All-American Commando: It is a war simulation, but

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without live rounds, even in what just miles gear.

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You say just miles gear, but.

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You put yourself in that high intensity situation, and you're gonna pucker up.

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That's what

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All-American Commando: used to make the American Fighting Man the most

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dangerous soldier on the planet, was because we actually spend, we

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have a bigger budget than like 70 something countries put together.

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But, Things like that put you into situations that are emulating the

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actual battlefield of the theater that you're going to be looking at.

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And

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All-American Commando: it puts you in positions that when you are actually

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in theater of combat, that you are so well herst that it is you respond.

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It's muscle memory.

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It's,

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you don't panic.

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All-American Commando: You'll still panic, but you'll handle it better.

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Right.

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All-American Commando: Yeah.

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Your training kicks in.

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You're trying to say, I've been through something like this before.

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All-American Commando: You react better and calmer than you would if

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you were just straight out of bootcamp thrown into a combat situation.

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So for even the average civilian, I don't even care if you like me and you've been

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in the military, got out 20 years ago, and you want to brush up on your skills.

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Find an airsoft community, find a paintball community,

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go out there and get engaged.

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These people are not out there.

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They don't hate you.

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If you talk to them, you will get a lot of assistance.

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You will get a lot of information and knowledge.

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But I think

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That too, because these guys just, a lot of them are, a lot

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of them have been through a lot of specialized training and they're not going

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to look down on you because you haven't.

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They know that their knowledge is beneficial to you and

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they are willing to help you.

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They're not going to dog you because you did not do what they did.

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Plain and simple.

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Not everybody is.

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Not everybody can do what they did.

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It's a very few number of people.

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So they're not, they don't look at you any less than they are and they

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will be willing to train you and they are very good at what they do.

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All-American Commando: And I just understand that you have less experience.

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So if you do get absorbed in a small team of people that do airsoft

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regularly, they might put you on point.

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Don't look at that as a bad thing.

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Young guy always get point when you're in a military and alive situation.

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And that's usually the first guy that gets hit.

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Take that opportunity

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To learn.

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Start,

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All-American Commando: learn.

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Situational awareness is what helps.

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But that point guy is vital for the survival of everybody else on the team.

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You are the sacrificial lamb, but believe me, there are things that, but

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you are the most important lamb on field, every, yeah,

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All-American Commando: you get shot in the air.

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Softer.

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A paintball situation.

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You will live to see another day.

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You get shot in a combat situation, you might die, not so much so look at it as

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you get shot, understand why you got shot.

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Have a, we call it an a, a R after action Review.

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Review.

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All-American Commando: So if you're with some seasoned professionals after

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a combat simulation in an airsoft or a paintball setting, have an a R, right?

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Sit down, keep your mouth closed unless you're asking questions.

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Or being asked a question.

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The bottom line is they learn.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, that's the point.

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You want to absorb more than you spout.

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Now, granted, you will have a lot of questions.

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Ask those questions at the appropriate time.

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If somebody is giving you and their version, their perspective of what went

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wrong, they will also give you their perspective of what you did right.

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So listen and learn from it because these are very They're real

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scenarios that you get to live from.

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And they're probably the most critical to your survival.

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Really they are.

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Oh.

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All-American Commando: There are very few airsoft that I can

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think of do things like evasion.

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I'm sure they do evasion to a point to get to an objective before they have contact.

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But, just, it's a, you can't even begin to say how useful that tool would be.

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That's all I'm saying.

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, Commando Crow: how many times have you been one?

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Been through an a r

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All-American Commando: Oh man I couch hundreds of AORs.

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Every time we had an exercise or a deployment, we have aart Had you

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every one of them.

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Man, I'm getting so tired of these sons of bitches.

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I ain't No, I

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All-American Commando: knew the importance of them.

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I knew the importance of them.

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Yeah,

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I did.

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So

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All-American Commando: my ears were white ass open.

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I did have questions at times but I made sure that I directed.

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Most of my questions actually got answered

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before the end of the AAR.

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And quite frankly, now you remember where I was at.

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I didn't do anything like you did, but sitting on a tarmac and doing

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an AAR, a lot of what I learned surprisingly came from what other people

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did, whether it be right or wrong.

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And that's that, the AAR was beneficial for me.

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I used to look forward to going to an AAR, to be honest with you, because I learned.

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What I needed to know,

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All-American Commando: absolutely.

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And if you get engaged in these types of war themed games, like air,

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soccer, paintball another thing.

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If you get engaged with a team, one specific team, and you're going out there

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all the time in the same group of fellas, you're very likely have op order briefing.

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There will be some type, I haven't participated in airsoft.

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I would like to, but I don't know of where an airsoft range is in my area.

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More than likely there will be an objective.

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Yeah, more than likely there will be some type of an objective

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and you'll have multiple teams.

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Your team will have an objective.

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Your team isn't going to sit there and probably have an open

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meeting with the other teams.

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You'll probably be off your team by themselves and y'all will have somebody

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anybody that's a veteran or current military that participates in this.

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I would be willing to bet that they operate in those environments

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with a chain of command.

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You will be somewhere in that chain of command.

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And one guy I'll give an op order briefing.

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This is our key objective.

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This is, we break contact until we get there.

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We evade, we, we do, if there is an op order briefing or a pre

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operation briefing, they will tell you what the objective is and what

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each person in a team's role is.

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So absolutely.

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All-American Commando: You take your op order briefing.

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I don't care if you got to have a notepad because.

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Believe me, soldiers carry notepads.

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They take notes.

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Take your notes.

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Take your notes.

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Listen.

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And then when you get into your war simulation, execute on what they said.

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And if you're unclear on what your specific mission is, ask before it starts.

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Then when you go to AAR, you've already been briefed on the mission.

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Then you executed the mission.

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Now you get to find out what are your shortcomings?

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What do I need to do better?

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How as a team can we work to better?

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What did I do that left my team members in the lurch?

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How do I correct that so I can lift the whole team is how do I become

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more of a benefit or an asset?

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These are all important things, but

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if

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All-American Commando: you can find yourself an airsoft community,

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that would be an awesome resource.

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Awesome.

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What I'm going to be looking for one.

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I'm not familiar with the airsoft community, but I do know we have

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several paintball places around here.

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Yeah, no, your

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All-American Commando: airsoft community.

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And I don't know if you're familiar with the equipment, dude, you get ARs.

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You can get freaking man.

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Yeah, I'm familiar with it, because you can get it

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from like T Mobile and Amazon.

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All-American Commando: Oh, and do you just It's real looking.

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Okay.

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It is.

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It puts you in a combat.

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The equipment looks real and you can actually buy things like real

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armor carriers, plate carriers.

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A lot of people that do that.

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They train with real plate carriers, so it's not a lot of them that do that.

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You have to move with it.

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You need to be able to go with it.

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All-American Commando: That's right.

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You have to be able to train like you will fight.

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And

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All-American Commando: a lot of people that are in the Airsoft community,

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they do it to keep skills honed, and they do it for real world situations.

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So they train with real equipment.

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A lot of them.

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Okay, for the next episode then, I'll make sure that I have some

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locations found for that type of thing.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, I would love to get engaged in some Airsoft stuff I

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wouldn't even mind starting my own team.

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I don't care how, I don't care how experienced they are, or how inexperienced

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they are, I think it would be pretty fun.

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Okay.

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Hey,

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look, I think the least experienced people will be

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the most important ones to have, to be honest, because, are we like

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reverse engineering right now?

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You know what I mean?

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All-American Commando: The people with the

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least experience need to really have the training as much as we do.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, but one of the things you got to be

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careful about, because you don't know who you're training mentally.

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You don't know their mindset about everything.

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Yeah.

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What I mean by that is if you teach somebody bad habits, it's hard to

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break bad habits for some people.

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And I, with my limited knowledge, don't get me wrong.

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I've got a great deal of knowledge because of what I did and a training that I did

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go through while I was in the airborne.

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I went through a lot of specialized training.

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I don't want to teach somebody with minimal to no experience and then

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have them say, oh, I was taught by this paratrooper and this is it?

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No,

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you know this.

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All-American Commando: This is the, no.

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I

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know where you're,

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All-American Commando: I want people that can take the information I got,

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apply that information, and then I want people maybe less experienced.

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Then I want people more experienced because I want to learn also.

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That concludes our discussion today and we

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appreciate you for listening.

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It only takes a moment, but it helps us tremendously.

Commando Crow:

Until next time, and on behalf of my brother and myself, we're the Constitution

Commando Crow:

Commandos and we're signing off.

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