We are back from a long break " also known as" College Football Season - For those who don't know, I work with the As For Football Podcast during the College Football Season. You can listen at https://www.asforfootball.com/podcasts/ or anywhere else that you can find podcasts. You can also check out some of our content on YouTube. We have a great team, and it is a Veteran Owned Small Business.
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Today's Topic: Subject Matter Expertise and Knowing When to Say When

Intro

Becoming an SME - Jumpmaster Example

Signs of When You Should Move On

Balancing Expertise and Opportunity

Conclusion

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Rob and the team discuss investment in human capital. The investment in people is one of the intangible qualities of serving in the military. We had over 100 years of leadership and military service on the call, which doesn't make us experts but gives us some insights that may be useful to you.



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Today’s guest is Clay Novak ( https://claynovak-author.com/) , he is the author of the book- Keep Moving, Keep Shooting. He was an awesome guest and here is a description of his book as well as the Non-profits he supports when he is not writing.

Combat Veteran Terry Davis traded a life of adventure and violence for the quiet of the Midwest prairie. But when he catches wind of a potential terror threat to the country he swore to protect as a young man, his instincts make it impossible to stay on the sidelines. Dusting off his years of training and experience - and his guns - to protect himself, his loved ones, and his nation, the aging warrior winds up in Tampa, making friends and meeting enemies along the way. As the threat slowly takes shape and reveals itself, Terry relies on the smarts and skills that kept him alive through years of combat. Yet the threat is much bigger than he realized, and he’s not sure who he can trust. The one thing he knows for sure is that if he wants to stay alive, he needs to Keep Moving, Keep Shooting.

Clay supports the following causes with some of the proceeds from his book:

https://ajlynchfoundation.org/ - The Lynch Foundation provides grants to organizations that provide direct assistance to United States Military veterans and their immediate family. Grants are provided after the requesting organization is thoroughly vetted to ensure that funds are not used for administrative purposes.

https://phantomairborne.us/ - Formed around 1980 as Phantom Airborne Battalion (and upsized to Brigade when Generals started jumping in1997) by Military Trained Airborne Qualified personnel (of all ranks), with the aim of providing a platform for Active Duty, Retired, and or Veteran Paratroopers, to continue jumping in the manner they were used to while serving.

https://lazylabhc.org/ - Aiming to improve the overall emotional and spiritual wellness of profoundly injured U.S. service members and their dependents by providing high-quality outdoor expeditions.

Check -out his Blog - https://claynovak-author.com/blog

Buy an autographed copy of Keep Moving, Keep Shooting from Clay directly-
https://claynovak-author.com/titles

Buy it on Amazon - https://a.co/d/dZmNBLM

Buy it on Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/keep-moving-keep-shooting-clay-e-novak/1142457117

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This week Rob, Dale, and Dave talked about Ranger School. There is a lot of ground to cover, and we went a little longer than usual. I also must apologize because we had some connectivity issues at the end of the show and Dale’s audio was cut off, but I can assure you what he said was incredibly profound. Either way we bring you 3 Generations of Ranger Qualified guys who also worked at the schoolhouse. The scary part of it is the course has changed, but it hasn’t changed so much that this conversation will not be relevant to you. RLTW!

Rob – 4th RTB ’05-07, 6th ‘13- ‘15

Dale – Ranger Instructor - 5th RTB – ‘89-91

Dave – Ranger Instructor – 4th from – ’05- ‘07

Five Principals of Patrolling

• Planning

• Reconnaissance

• Security

• Control

• Common Sense – The fifth principle is the most important.

Ranger School is the Army's toughest course and the premier small unit tactics and leadership school. The Ranger Course is a mentally and physically challenging school that develops functional skills directly related to units whose mission is to engage the enemy in close combat and direct-fire battle. For 62 days, Ranger students train to exhaustion, pushing the limits of their minds and bodies. The course incorporates three phases (Darby, Mountain, and Swamp) which follow the crawl, walk, run training methodology. In the Darby phase, the students become trained on squad operations and focus on ambush and recon missions, patrol base operations, and planning before moving on to platoon operations. In the Mountain phase, students develop their skills at the platoon level in order to refine and complete their training in the Swamp phase. After these three phases, Ranger Students are proficient in leading squad and platoon-dismounted operations around the clock in all climates and terrain. Rangers are better trained, more capable, more resilient, and better prepared to serve and lead Soldiers in their next duty position.

https://www.moore.army.mil/Infantry/ARTB/Student-Information/


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This is a crossover episode from asforfootball.com. This is a great transition story from two Army Football Alums. The show is out and doing well and I wanted to share this with the PFFL audience as well. One of the best interviews that I have done and it just felt like I was just lucky to be in the room. Thanks again to all of you for coming to the show. BIG BITES!!!

This week: Rob and Dan interview Army Football alumni Caleb Campbell (’08) and Jim Zopelis (’96). We learn what brought these guys to West Point and what the Army Football Brotherhood has meant to them in the years since. Caleb goes deep on his journey through the Army to the NFL and beyond, while Jim tells us how his Army Football connections have set him up for life outside the Green Machine. Friends, this is maybe our best interview ever. Don’t miss it.

#BEATNAVY

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Today’s guest is Lino Miani - https://www.linkedin.com/in/linomiani/ and we are talking Deep Dive 2023 - https://combatdiver.org/deep-dive-2023 at the Flora-Bama Bar at Orange Beach (https://www.florabama.com/)

Lino is a multilingual advisor with 20+ years of global experience in military, diplomatic, and humanitarian circumstances. An accomplished author and communicator trusted to provide advice and manage relationships in a broad range of business and foreign policy contexts. Solves complex problems that reside at the intersection of foreign policy, international business, and underdeveloped markets.

The Mission of Combat Diver Foundation - https://combatdiver.org/

Cataloging Every class at the Special Forces Underwater Operations School creates a plaque. Most of these include historical photographs of all the members of that class. In many ways this serves as a who's who of US and Allied Special Operations Forces. We intend to catalogue the members of the community and tell their stories.

Preservation Many of the class plaques at the Special Forces Underwater Operations School require maintenance and professional restoration. The Combat Diver Foundation will take this on as a principal task along with the preservation of donated artifacts from among the community.

The Museum Our ultimate goal is to fund and coordinate the construction of the Combat Diver Museum. This will be a repository of the history and heritage of this elite class of warriors.

Fundraising Unfortunately, we cannot achieve our worthwhile goals without funding. The Combat Diver Foundation will organize live fundraisers as well as crowdfunding campaigns to reach well-defined targets.


Also take a look at the Virtual Museum for the Combat Diver Foundation - https://virtual-museum.combatdiver.org/

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Thanks again to Dale and JB for coming on the show to talk about D-Day. We talk about our service and what D-Day means to us. Also how sometimes things come full circle 20 years after the fact.

https://www.army.mil/d-day/history.html - D- Day Historical Info

https://armyhistory.org/hell-in-the-forest-the-22d-infantry-regiment-in-the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/

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Today's Guest is Dean Wegner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanwegner93/) from Authentically American (https://www.authenticallyamerican.us/).

Dean has a passion for business and making a difference, We talk about his transition and his business and how he is always on the hunt to help small business owners and veteran's charities quality apparel to help support their cause.

Other mentions in the show:

List of 100 Brands that are made in the USA. https://clark.com/shopping-retail/american-made-in-the-usa/

Global SOF Foundation: https://gsof.org/

The Combat Diver Foundation: Sign- Up for Deep Dive 2023 - https://combatdiver.org/

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New Segment - Big Bites and PMI

Steve Dullack is both an Army and a Coast Guard Veteran and he joins the show to tell his story about his transition and we just catch up. It has been a while. First one of our class to come on and looking for more.


https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-dullack-97ab38b9/

As mentioned in the show:

https://matthewjlouis.com/books/

https://patriots-path.org/




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LTG (r) Kenneth E. Tovo was commissioned from the U.S. Military Academy into the Infantry in 1983. After serving his initial tour with the 82nd Airborne Division, Tovo completed the Special Forces Qualification Course and transferred to Special Forces. He served as a Special Forces detachment, company, battalion, and group commander in the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne).

Tovo’s additional assignments included serving as a plans officer with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta and Joint Headquarters Center (NATO); aide de-camp to the commander, Stabilization Force, Bosnia; chief of staff, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC); deputy commanding general, Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR); deputy commanding general, 1st Armored Division/U.S. Division Center, Iraq; commanding general, Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT); and commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan and NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (CSTC-A/NTM-A). Most recently, Tovo served as the military deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Fla.

Tovo’s operational assignments include the first Gulf War, refugee relief operations in Northern Iraq, noncombatant evacuation operations in Sierra Leone, peacekeeping operations in Bosnia on two occasions, five tours in Iraq, and one tour in Afghanistan.

As mentioned in the podcast:

• Green Beret Foundation - https://greenberetfoundation.org/

• First Flight Venture Center- https://www.ffvcnc.org/

Graham Allison: - Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?-https://amzn.to/3I2U0TB

Peter Zienhan Books:-

• The Absent Super Power - https://amzn.to/3XdW4w1

• Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World - https://amzn.to/3YfcupC

• The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder - https://amzn.to/3Yr7cXt

• The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization - https://amzn.to/3RJCZRp

Christian Brose - The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - https://amzn.to/3HvnbwY

P.W.Singer and August Cole - Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War - https://amzn.to/3HGFtvr

Charles E. Heller - America's First Battles - https://amzn.to/3HBL1Hm


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