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Now, speaking of Special Operations Community, you guys already know who I have because

you've clicked on the link to listen to this episode.

So without further ado, I have retired Army, CIA,

James Stay School. So welcome to the show.

Thanks for inviting me, and it's great to be here. I love your intro.

Oh, thanks. I should also give a shout out to our editor Guy who kind of hooked us up

and said, Rad, I want you to meet James and have him on your show. We could talk about, you know,

Eagle Claw. And I just want to kind of point out something real quick. I had a friend of mine,

Colonel Nightingale on the show. Are you familiar with Colonel Nightingale?

I do know Nightingale. He was. Familiar with Colonel Nightingale? I do know Nightingale.

He was working on the joint staff when this whole thing went down.

Yeah, so tell me about Eagle Claw.

For someone who doesn't know too much about Eagle Claw, let's just jump into it and

your role in that.

Well, as we have a tendency to do, the Americans are spread out all over the world. In

1978, 79, Iran, which had been an ally of ours with the Shah of Iran, who we put in the

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