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  1. “Sheepdog response is like our motto is make you harder to kill. And we're trying to make people the A and the B, keeping blood in the good and letting blood out of the bad. We're trying to teach people how to do that. Ranger Up is one of my companies. We make satire military shirts and jeans and we'll be shoes. I mean, I'm an entrepreneur like you, you know, but it's Nah, just go work for freedom. I'll work for my companies. I'll work for my wealth. I'll work for my everything. I'll work for my freedom. You go work for yours.”

    2018-04-22 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #310: Hurry Up and Fail -- Tim Kennedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Freedom's awesome. So Believe in it and go vote for it. And then you can find me Tim Kennedy MMA is me for everything, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. I try to get on there a lot. Pretty exposed. So if you want to, like this is not a You'll get a very honest conversation out of me in every. And every way, probably to. Much of a degree”

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  3. “That would be like a pretty, when I come back from combat, because like you're such a, like right now we're like having these nice essential conversations, but we're kind of getting. Philosophically. Projecting what would be doing or billboards of inspiration, like I'll come, I'll be a raw asshole in a year from now after being overseas for.”

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  4. “Success, sleep, even sleep. Like you want good sleep? Earn it. Go work for it. Put your iPad away. Go eat a good, healthy dinner. Work hard all day long for 12 hours and play with your kids and sweat and fuck your wife. Give her 15 orgasms so you fall over into bed and just pass out for eight hours. That's some good sleep right there. You know, like, so on the far side of hard work.”

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  5. “Was that based on a real guy? Like, was he even good at sex? I don't know. But I guess I'll tell you what, somebody that really wants and is committed to being good at it is going to be good at it. That goes for everything.”

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  6. “Just want people to work. We're in a society of a culture of entitlement where it's like everybody wants to fast, easy, quick fix for everything. You know, like, oh, I'm sick. Give me a prescription. I'm fat. Give me that quick, easy diet. I'm not successful at work. Just give me that promotion, even though I deserve it. Everything is just on the far side of hard work. So that's what I put. Everything you want is on the far side of work. Freedom, the only place freedom exists is on the far side of hard work. The only place success exists financially, sexually, in relationships, emotionally. It's on the far side of work. Like if you want a good marriage, fucking work for it. You know, you want to have amazing sex. Cool. Work for it. You know, like unless you're this fictional character and like, well, I don't even know the movie's like Dirt Diggler, right?”

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  7. “As a team, you know, sure as shit, I'm going to make sure that dude's like I'm not only going to smash his laptop. I'm probably going to microwave it and then I'm going to throw it in the ocean. Or the river or the Tigers.”

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  8. “Mike, my family will be very well off, probably better if. Financially. But more, I mean, like. The guys that were with they know, I mean, these are horrible conversations to have and things that I don't want my family to know. But if I break my back or if I'm so badly burnt. To what degree are they going to try to save me? That's a conversation we have, you know, like. Maybe don't put me on that bird. Just let me die right here, you know? But that's a conversation for me and my friends. You know, I've had dudes be like, all right, listen, all I want you to do is take my cell phone, smash it on the ground, go take my laptop, smash that on the ground, and then make my shirt, make sure my body even goes to my wife.”

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  9. “With an AC 130 flying over us and an F16 and a couple of Apaches on standby, you know, like you're not going to deal with one of me. You're going to deal with me and all of my friends that have been born and bred to do this one thing, which is give people a chance to fight for their freedom. Want to fuck with us We really like that freedom thing”

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  10. “We're stripped down, you go all the way back to the most raw exposed version of that special forces soldier and they start building those cornerstones in the foundation. We are risk adverse. We are trying to set ourselves up for success in every imaginable way so that we can't fail. And if and when things start failing, there's so much training and there's so much rehearsal and there's so much practice and there's so much strategy and there's so much preparation that that quote of I'm going to be the hardest person somebody who tries to kill. Imagine fighting 12 of me. Or 24 of me, 36 of me.”

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  11. “In front of their school. I've tracked down guys that were writing down the street on motorcycles, throwing acid on little girls that were walking to school because they didn't think girls should go to school. I want that to happen nowhere on the planet and in the places that it does. I want to go there and stop it from happening. Like I don't want that to be here. That's on a horizon in the UK right now. It's increased by almost a thousand percent as people trying to prevent girls from going to school, specifically with acid. Okay, send me to the UK. I can fix this. You're not going to like how I'm going to do it, but I can fix it.”

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  12. “Different conversation. But is he going to understand dad being gone for six months? No. He's going to be pissed. He's going to take it out of my wife. My girls are going to. Going to be pissed. But they also know that I would rather be fighting that there than”

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  13. “I'm at risk. I'm deploying two times in the next year, like one time really, really, really soon. And I'm glad we got to sit down and chat because I'm going to be gone for like the next year. They know that this is what I was made to do. And they love it when I get to do it. They're proud of me in the sense that If they walk onto a military base with me, everybody is walking up to shake my hand. It's different than being in Austin where people want to come up and take selfies. It's like they want to come up and shake my hand because they know what I've done and they know what I'm going to do. And that makes them proud. A 15 and 16 year old girl, you know, like that's awesome. A two-year-old's just like, I have poop in my pants.”

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  14. “Their freedom again. And so what I attribute it to is giving the guys that know what they're supposed to do the opportunity to do it. That's it.”

    2018-04-22 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #310: Hurry Up and Fail -- Tim Kennedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “I saw that you killed some of our green braes in Southeast Afghanistan. Cool. We're going to drop the biggest bomb that's not nuclear that we have on our arsenal on top of you, you know, which is what we did. It's like, oh, you killed some green beretts in Niger. Neat. We're going to fly in 800 shooters and wipe all of Bokaram Al-Qaeda and Isis off of the map entirely in your country. You know, it's like, oh, you had Fallujah, Sauter City, Ramadi. Not only are we going to take them back, but we're going to take them back and we're going to put conservative Muslim leaders in there that are so far from fanatic radicals that girls get to go back to school. I mean, the things that would just irritate radicals so bad.”

    2018-04-22 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #310: Hurry Up and Fail -- Tim Kennedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Kicking ass It's plain and simple. If you take a bunch of pit bulls and you put them in cages and then you let Chihuahuas out, they're never going to go and you're supposed to be catching wild boars. That chihuahua is never going to do anything, right? It's going to bark and then it's going to run back. But if you open those cages, there's only one thing those pit bulls know how to do is just kick ass. And that's all that happened. We're just like, okay, we're gonna go.”

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  17. “Secretary of Defense. And I see not just him, but other people being put into positions of authority within my chain of command that believe in winning. And I like winning. As much as I don't like losing, I like winning. And this was going to be a chance for us to be winning again. You know, in a year, what was the ground that ISIS has had, they have lost 99% of it in one year. That's winning.”

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  18. “Those cities that we fought and that we won, ISIS comes in because of policies, because of presence, because of secretaries of defenses and bad decisions, bad war planning, and we lose ground. And like, I can't explain to you how bad that hurts guys like me to see things that they fought for and they bled for and they got blown up in, just giving back to an enemy that's even more evil than the evil that we want it from. You know, like I'll take 10 saddams over an Isis. And, um, And I see Mad Dog Maddis is coming back.”

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  19. “Like a thorn, like a burr in the back of my neck, they're just always just irritating. I hope to the day I die that they irritate me. And we're losing a war. You know, I fought in places like Ramadi and Sadar City and Baghdad and Fallujah. And those were cities that good friends of mine got heard in. And I was fighting next to Iraqis that wanted freedom so badly. They wanted to have a chance at just living. Muslims, Christians didn't matter. Just give us a chance, you know, and all of us are fighting together for that chance. And then”

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  20. “The drugs? Where am I going to find the guy that has the guns? The guy that's parked in the back trying to get a blowjob, the guy that's parked around the side of the building where there's no lights and maybe a camera that's busted because he's about to do a drug deal. So just knowing kind of like how people work. So, okay, I'm not going to park there. I'm going to park here. There's really simple stuff. So then when I say it's freeing, all of that stuff happens so effortlessly now that now it's just like I'm just at lunch with my buddy Shane and we're just talking we're just talking shit about people right right right you know”

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  21. “It's on the census. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's all available online, and it's like one little search, and that's just a couple of quick little numbers so that you can kind of wrap your head around. But if I go to Walmart, I'm going to have a different crowd than if I go to Target, right? Two different people shop there, different so sick. I'm a classes, different types of cars are supposed to be parked there. But in the parking lot, where am I going to find”

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  22. “That one thing looks off, and we can see that very clearly because we know what normal is for what's happening around us. So the first thing is kind of learning about cultures, learning about the areas that you're living, the demographics, the socioeconomic classes, the races that should be there. And I do that to everywhere I go. I just came from... Ocala, Florida, like that was the last place that I was in. I know that percentages of races who should be there, what kinds of cars people should drive. You know, that at 73% white. And of the remaining 27%, half of them are Mexican. And then the other remaining like 13, 12% are split between black and Asian”

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  23. “That one looks weird. The colors off or the dimensions aren't right or the paper doesn't feel right. Or compared to these other 100 bills, this one. That one's wrong. So it's the exact same. Well, what you have to do is you have to train your mind what normal is. So, like in Austin, we're in South Bay. I kind of, as you know, we got a little bit more traffic. We were talking about it. That is a very casual way of being situationally aware. That's setting up the sample of what is normal. So then when something is off, when something's weird, when something's just a little bit awry, my eye goes from awareness to assessing. I start looking specifically at that thing, that guy that's wearing the white Muslim prayer robes that's sweating. Like everybody else, you know, they're holding beers or like, hey, here, let's do a selfie. Okay, let's hashtag South by Southwest. That's normal. We know that's normal, even though unfortunately that's normal.”

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  24. “Counterfeiting. So, like, if I was trying to find the easiest way to find a counterfeit bill is to put it with a whole bunch of bills that I know are good. So, your eyes like that.”

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  25. “It's living. It's freedom. It's freeing. So like I had this huge level of awareness, right? Where it's kind of like I'm on a radar like ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And when I see something that's off in the military, everything's uniform, right? Everybody wears the same thing. Everybody dresses the same. Everybody makes their beds the same. And that's so when you look at something that is off, your eye catches it right away. That's why everything is uniform in the military. Do you know that? So it's easier to see when something's wrong because everything else makes it”

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  26. “That a Glock 43, but I got good frangible rounds and a couple extra magazines, so it would be all right. It's tricked out, though. Good sites, good trigger, good barrel. Because I don't want to fight fair because I want to cheat in every way.”

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  27. “Individual first aid kit. So even all of us right here, like I have enough stuff if all of you guys got shot to plug your wounds, I get my backpack right here and a good gun with an extra magazine.”

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  28. “Element of being safe is being aware of your surroundings. Knowing where I'm going to run, knowing where the out is, where the exit is, where my car's parked, where a threat is going to come from, what's the most likely course of action? What's the most dangerous course of action if I'm at a taco place, you know, it's going to the most dangerous course of action is somebody coming and setting a bomb off, the most likely course of action is just somebody coming up and be like, hey, give me the money and then register. But I need to think about what the different degrees are of what the threats possibly could be. And then like my kids never know that all this, maybe they have a clue. They're smart. But they never think about this stuff. They just know that they're safe. The backpack that's right here next to me that has a gun in it that has two tourniquets and it has a ifak in it you know like”

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  29. “Is that your truck out there? Man, I love those rims. In a disarming way, start eliciting very passively information out of them to confirm or to prove us right or wrong in kind of the assumptions that we've made thus far. So it's developing two things simultaneously. But that is the first.”

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  30. “My good friend Shane and I, when we go out to eat here in Austin, we almost play games, biometrics and atmospherics. We're sitting in a restaurant. We look at everybody in the room. The first thing we do is identify potential threats in our threat assessments. And then we figure out where the guns are in the room, who's the guy that is wearing the come and take it shirt, right, that has the fanny pack or that has that bulge on his right hip or that has that appendix carrier. It's like, dude, that guy is not dirt diggler. He is not that big. There's something in front of his pants. And then we start making assumptions about who's in the room. The two people are sitting together that kind of are awkwardly interacting. Okay, is this their first date? Is this a business meeting? Is this the first time that they've ever been alone? Or are they married and they're not supposed to be not married to each other for the first time? And we start making these assumptions. And then we develop another skill set, which is I go up and I start chatting these people up. I'm like, hey, what's going on?”

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  31. “These skills. I mean, I'll just say A and B. A is keep the blood. B is let the blood out of the bad guys. That's it, right? If they're innocent people, they're cops, they're firefighters, their schoolchildren, a bunch of people dancing at a nightclub, and somebody comes in and starts trying to shoot people, we want to keep the blood inside of those people, right? The blood we don't only have a finite amount of it. Blood stays in the body of the good people. And then the bad guys, you want all the blood in them out of them in whatever way you can. I don't care if that's a knife. I don't care if that's a gun. I don't care if that's a brick. I don't care if that's a bottle. That person needs to stop hurting people. So, yeah, that might be CPR. That might be learning how to put around tourniquet. That might be learning how to prevent it from happening entirely, which is situational awareness.”

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  32. “There's like 120, 140 million Americans right now that just have total unrealized potential. I just go, just go. Just start”

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  33. “Like, make that girl fall in love with you again. You know, and press the fuck out of her. Where's the last time that you picked up both your kids and ran to the play gym with them hoisted on your shoulders and like put one up on the other one? The other one's you're holding the hand. You hand them on the play gym. Like, that's some massive, masculine shit. You're just playing with your kids on a play gy But there's this opportunity, and there's so many of them for us just to embrace our potential, which is usually, I mean, you know more about it better than almost anyone on the planet because you've pushed that limit so many times in so many different ways, both intellectually and physically. There's so much unrealized potential back to me at 21 years old, little piece of shit, self-absorbed, ethnocentric prick. Unrealized potential.”

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  34. “Little tiny decisions start building on top of each other. And then sooner or later, you look back and you don't even recognize the person that you are. There's such this beautiful change where like, oh my God, I can see my dick. I can see my feet or my wife for the first time in five years. Sorry, look at me when I got up and I walked out of the room, and not like looked at me like, thank God that guy's getting up and leaving, but like, god damn, that guy looked good. You know, like, when was the last time? In some people's lives that they've felt that way about the person they've been living with for 10 years.”

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  35. “You just said it. If they just started doing things, that's it. All you have to do is start. So everybody, so where do I start? Man, anything. You can get up. If you don't walk around, if you haven't gotten up and walked around your block a couple of times, do that. If you haven't Googled where the closest martial art gym is, whether it's Judo, whether it's Jiu-Jitsu, whether it's Muay Thai, whether it's wrestling, doesn't matter. If you haven't done it, try it. gone to the shooting range and shot Give it a whirl. If you've been eating fried food for like three meals, three dinners out of the week, try two. You know, like just anything will make you just that much better. And then those.”

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  36. “That if I was 20% body fat, I could be 18% body fat. Freaking cool that would be. Right now, if I could just lose 2% body fat.”

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  37. “Of the hardest things about me trying to inspire or encourage people to train as they look at me and they're like, that guy's freaking savage. You know, he's a special force a sniper, ranger qualified green beret. That's been a combat 12 times, fought in the UFC, ranked top 10 in the world. He's a black belt, a handful of martial arts. But I'm the exact same person as the other 7 billion people on the planet, right? Like I didn't grow up with any kryptonite in the fridge, you know, like there's nothing that is different about me in any way, shape or form. I just work. And I'm just fighting at this point. I'm fighting for not even 1% to get 1% better. I'm fighting for like percentages of a percent, you know, incrementally like decimals, like the tiniest little bits just for that much of improvement. I long for the day where I would get dramatically faster in a month.”

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  38. “You're serious, like the forgotten war with the forgotten soldiers, the most the time when the American people were so disenchanted with what the military was doing, fighting for freedom, trying to destroy communism. And I was like, okay, I'm going to walk out to this every day. So the last half of my career, I would always walk out to that song, The Rooster. And as a homage or a tribute to not just Vietnam, not just BUWs, not just machine gunners, not just infantrymen, but like everybody everywhere that's ever fought in a fight for something that's bigger and greater than them with no thanks and no appreciation, you know, that, because I wasn't there fighting for me. I was there fighting for everybody else besides me at that point.”

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  39. “Yeah. And I was like, yeah, right. It's like the rooster. He's like, it's about a machine gunner in Vietnam. He's writing to his dad who was in Vietnam and would carry the M60 machine gun for the 101st. I was like, no.”

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  40. “And I'd sing it to him as he's walking out, he's like pointing at him, you know, and it's like, and I get in the ring, I'm still pointing at it, you're like, maybe batting my eyes, maybe blowing them kisses, you know, like just to mess with them. I do a bunch of different songs like that all the time. And then My friend Nick Pomicano from Ranger Up. Man, you're the origin of the song Rooster.”

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  41. “I pound him into oblivion. He quit. He tapped from strikes. I put him in every single position and I for around and a half, I just punched him in the face, from our feet, from the ground, picked him up, put on the back of his head. And when guys graduate Ranger School, A lot of guys don't walk for months. Their legs are so destroyed. They're so malnourished. They're so sleep deprived. The inside of their legs are so chaffed and rubbed raw. They'll actually get So, I wanted to go into a fight a week and a half after graduating Ranger School and scare the living crap out of everyone.”

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  42. “I haven't lost my fight. Like, I kind of wanted to show him that I'm still that same bulldog. I'm still that same pit bull. I still have the things you liked. Yeah. I haven't changed as a person and who's this Dante Rivera, you know, a Henzo Gracie brown or black belt that is undefeated? Neat. I'm going to pound him into oblivion and I'll come back to the team on Monday and start getting ready to go to Afghanistan.”

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  43. “I think I needed to show myself that That spirit of the fight. So I come back, I not only graduated as honor grad, I also get the leadership award, which is like the thing I wanted the most. So all of Ranger School is like, okay, you're the best leader of this whole entire class. But I get to the team. I got a little bit more military bearing. I got my Ranger tab on here sewn with white thread because I graduated during winter. Like we walked through snow, which only rarely happens. So like feeling pretty awesome.”

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  44. “Both. I'm sure it was both. I mean, there were times where I know he specifically put me on a load plan that I didn't need to be on just to see how I'd perform. And the very next day wouldn't put me like, okay, I'm not going to put you on the helicopter assault force, the half. I'm going to put you on the gaffe, the ground assault force. And I was like, I don't want to be on the ground assault. You know, like, how about you shut your face? You go out to that M250 machine gun. You start doing the headspace and timing, making sure it's clean, making sure all the ammo stacked perfectly. So when you're on it, if you get in a gunfight, everything's going to go so perfectly for you. But instead, you're bitching. And I know he did that.”

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  45. “And then you're going to hold it against me, and everybody's going to be like, I will never. You're going to be friends with that guy”

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  46. “Petulant child, like a spoiled bitch brat, red-headed idiot. Retrospectively looking like that's what I sounded like. You're like, no, John, why can't I go? So there was lots of little tiny things that I did there that he was giving me a chance to prove, okay, got it. When you guys get back, I'm gonna have all your gear clean. Everything's gonna be ready to go. So you can drop your gear off and go straight to bed. And get some sleep after a long night of gunfighting. But instead, I'm bitching that I don't get to go. A bunch of examples like that. I could probably tell you 10. The spirit of me, I just want to be in the fight It's a team We're only as good as our weakest link and I'm being the weakest link.”

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  47. “Even the movie American Sniper with Chris Kyle. He was Chris Kyle was going after his henchmen, like lower level guys. My unit was going after him. Zarkawi. Yeah, going specifically after Zarkowie. And there were nights where we were supposed to have eight helicopters. So the whole assault force is going to be going, right? And then Air or the mechanic or something came up and we only had six. My team sergeant's like, all right, here's the new load plan. Tim, you're not going to go. Little check on my ego, you know, that sucks. Why can't I faster? I'm stronger. I'm definitely the juggernaut of the team, you know, like I'm out shooting you guys on the range right now. I'm out fighting you guys every morning and training. Like, why am I not going like a little”

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  48. “There's a lot of little things. We're on a night where we're trying to kill one of the most evil dudes in all of the war. We've been at war for 16 years, Zarkawi. Remember the deck of cards? I do, yeah. Yeah, like he was nice. He's a bad dude. He had strung up Americans from bridges and set them on fire. He had drug dudes down the road strapped behind a car that he had stolen from the Americans. He was notorious for posing with pitchers, with Americans, dead Americans in front of him holding their guns like he was an African trophy hunter.”

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  49. “He told me I was a piece of shit. And he said that I had no business being in a unit like the one that we were in because we were in a very special unit within special forces and that I didn't have the leadership and I didn't have the experience and I didn't have the military bearing to be in that unit and that I could maybe get a chance if I went to Ranger School and I graduated on a grad. I knew I was going to be heading back to combat. So I not only needed to prove to him that I was a good leader, but I was also Tough enough, and I deserve to be there.”

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  50. “For sure, right? I'm tearing out eyes. I'm biting out cheeks. I'm taking this glass. Here, and it's going through the first dude's eye, I am and take that stand right there and I'm used as a baseball bat. I'm gonna make it a choke point right there by the hallway, you know, where it's like we're in thermopylae and see if you guys can get past us like the 300. That's just the spirit of the fight. And I think you have to test the spirit of the fight. When I graduated from Ranger School, then I got the call a couple of days later. Could you fight in the IFL, which was a new promotion that was on Fox. I knew I was going to already be heading to combat. And the reason I had to go to Ranger School was I just gotten back from my rack. And my boss, John McPhee, the sheriff of Baghdad,”

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