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This week in the studio a retired Command Sergeant Major with over 30 years of service to this country. It seems like an odd story that he would rise from the rank of private to Command Sergeant Major especially because he initially enlisted because of his best friend. He completed his first full tour and decided to leave military service and become a missionary. He left the service but the service never left him, he enlisted in the Guard and worked with 1st Battalion 211th ARB and 19th Special Forces he has deployed to the Middle East and was even stationed there during the horrendous events that happened on September 11th, 2001. Personally he had to recover and continue to lead his family when his wife passed away suddenly, and still continue to grow as a father, leader, and a man. He’s here to tell his story of Love, Loss, and life lessons that he learned over his career, I’m excited to introduce Bradley Jones…..

This week in the studio a man with 20 years of service in Naval Special Warfare as both enlisted and an officer. He worked as a Sniper, Assaulter, and Platoon Commander in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and the Philippines. Upon exit and retirement from the military Jack again conquered another childhood goal, that of becoming a writer. If you did not know Jack grew up with a mother who was a librarian, and helped instill a love of books in Jack. He read everything from the classics to pulp fiction, which truly shows in his Terminal List series of books that feature the almost bigger than life James Reece and his tales of revenge, redemption, and all out war on those that wish to harm James or his family. He’s here tonight to talk about the latest addition In The Blood, his Terminal List TV show premiering in July, and everything on his horizon. So here we go with the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Navy Seal Sniper, and Outdoorsman. The One, The Only….. Jack Carr.

This week in the studio a man who at the age of 12 lost his brother to homicide in Washington Heights, New York. When he saw the look of devastation on his mothers eyes at the news from 2 police officers, he decided that he would dedicate his life to law enforcement so that he could maybe spare another family going through the pain of such a heinous act. Fast forward to 1987 he was assigned as a US Deputy, to the United States Marshall Service, and upon graduation was assigned to the Southern District of New York where he had the job of transporting and guarding high level Mafia Bosses and Gangsters during the height of the Mafia Commission. After leaving that service my guest became a Special Agent with the ATF where he worked undercover buying machine guns, silencers, narcotics, and a host of other firearms. Moving to Bergen County he worked Narcotics, Vice, Homicide, Organized and Sex Crimes. He finally landed at US Customs where he was a weapons expert , and organized undercover Money Laundering operations. While at Customs my guest worked in Miami and several countries in the Caribbean. This guest has even trained some of Hollywoods most famous actors how to assume the role of an undercover for Blockbuster Hits such as Miami Vice, Burn Notice, and Americas Most Wanted. He retired in the fall of 2019 and now is the Global Security Director for Pfizer and a professional Boxing and MMA judge for the Florida Athletic Commission. This guy has an amazing story and I cant wait to tell it. Introducing Lorenzo Toledo……..

This week in the studio, a returning guest that spent time as and Army Combat Apache Pilot in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, an FBI Special Agent, and member of the Dallas office FBI SWAT team in his career. Now he is a New York Times bestselling author of not only the Matt Drake series of books, “Without Sanction”, “The Outside Man”, and his newest addition in that series “Hostile Intent”. He has also been charged with taking the mantle of character growth and further story development in the Tom Clancy series about Jack Ryan Jr with “Target Acquired” and the soon to be released “Zero Hour”, which are also New York Times bestsellers. He’s here tonight to talk about his new release, the state of the world and possibly fail at 80’s trivia. I am so happy to introduce in my opinion one of the best writers in the world. Mr. Don Bentley.

This week in the studio a Retired Federal Law Enforcement Agent with 29+ years with the government US Border Patrol, US Customs and Homeland Security Investigations. Most of his career was spent in some form of undercover operations both domestic and international whether that being actually undercover or supervising a team of undercover agents. He served tours of duty in Spain, Italy, Venezuela, Colombia and very briefly in Afghanistan Afghanistan and Thailand as well. His operations have resulted in the seizure of over 268 million dollars, 1,500 kilos of cocaine, and hundreds of arrests and convictions, but that not where it stops, even after retirement he joined western Union and works tirelessly to conduct security risk assessments and conduct high risk commercial relationship investigations. He even can be found on IMDB for some of his acting roles. I am excited to introduce Alex Alonso.

This week in the studio a man with 23 years of service to this country. He currently serves as the Deputy Commandant for the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School’s (SWCS) Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He began his career as an infantryman in the 25th Infantry Division, He then served in the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) as a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant, Intelligence Sergeant, Team Sergeant and currently serves as a Special Forces Sergeant Major. Throughout Chuck’s military career, he has conducted a total of seventeen deployments, with twelve deployments being to combat. He has also been recognized multiple times for his service and possesses a Silver Star Medal, a Bronze Star for Valor, an Army Commendation Medal for Valor, three Purple Heart Medals and numerous other military awards. now here is where the story gets crazy, He has a passion for recovery and resiliency due to being severely wounded in combat on three combat rotations; and has recently undergone his 30th surgery in the past 13 years. In addition to his military career, Chuck is the Founder/Partner of LYCOS GROUP, LLC, a leadership consulting firm based in North Carolina and is a board member for the Talons Reach Foundation. He plans on retiring from the military in 2023 to continue with consulting and helping soldiers realize that being in control of your mental health should be one of the top priorities to make that next chapter after service as memorable as the service itself. Please welcome Charles “Chuck” Ritter.

This week in the studio with me. A retired Sergeant Major with a combined 29 years of professional service to both the United States Marine Corp and The United States Army. Serving in numerous position ranging from a Scout Sniper to National Security Agency Access operations Officer. He has also conducted operations with SOUTHCOM, CENTCOM, AFRICOM, EUCOM, SOCOM, AND THE FAMED SPECIAL MISSIONS UNIT. His life took a turn after he lost two teammates in a one month time period to suicide. My guest decided that after not being able to make sense of these losses, that it was time to be an example and get help. Fast Forward to life after 2 Stellate Ganglion Blocks and being a team member with the Military Special Operations Family Collabrative, a group that enables the success of SOF Warriors and Families through collabrative health and well being research and programs. He’s here to tell his story of successes and failures, It is my honor to introduce Erick Miyares.

Former US Marine and retired Sergeant with the NYPD Intelligence Division with more than 20 years in the NYPD, this guest earned the respect of his peers and was known as one of the top interrogators on the force, skillfully extracting intel from the toughest criminals in New York before calling it a career in 2006. In October 2007, he was recruited by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), a government agency that devised top-secret strategies for combating IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the lead tactical debriefing officer, he participated in over 110 combat missions and 91 captures of high-value targets (HVTs) in southern Iraq and performed more than 200 battlefield interrogations.

This week in the studio a Veteran News Correspondent, In his four decade network news career some of the areas that he has covered are the Civil War in El Salvador, where he was kidnapped and threatened, The events leading to the Bombing of the barracks in Beirut, The Oklahoma City bombing where he spoke directly with the bomber himself, the Lockerbie tragedy,Baghdad, Afghanistan, Iraq, and was even embedded with son Carlos who is also a news correspondent in order to reconnect and gain the footage that was used in the Documentary The Hornets Nest. This man has covered a ton of world changing events and tonight we will hear what he was thinking and go behind the scenes of one of the last great worldwide correspondents of the news.

This week in the studio. A man who has worked in the White House Communications Agency, the Secret Service, been a contractor with the Department of Defense, and earned his Green Beret in 1986 giving him a total of over 49 years of service to this country. Now an author who signed a 3 book deal with Force Poseidon publishing, he’s looking to retire in 2022 to focus on his writing and visiting his bucket list destinations and restaurants.