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But today, I have tribe task purpose founders and leadership with us today to talk about veteran awareness within yourself. And today, I have Joshua Reddick. And I have Mike Peyton, Mike is former Navy Seal. And Josh is a US Army 23 year veteran and let him introduce himself. And Mike, let's go with Mike first. Mike, welcome to the show.

Hey, what's up, brother? How are you doing? Hey, welcome back, welcome back. So maybe seals, which rabbit hole would you like to go down? So,

which one did you say? Well, I spent almost 22 years in the SEAL teams are retired in December of 21. I spent time. I started with teammate and went over a dev group for a minute and then went over to group level and retired out of group two. So all right, the group level. And

yeah, I mean, my career, I was a lead breacher. I went into the Intel arena. I was team leader like through Iraq and away. And then put on chief in the Intel space and retired as a senior chief. So yeah.

So senior chief, petty officer. Is that correct on the Navy? Okay. As a lead breacher, in my understanding is that the guy that has like maybe bolt cutters on his back and like maybe a shotgun that can blow off the door hinges.

Possibly the guy on the front with like a rake or what? Tell me what a lead breacher. We have everybody else care in the tools and we just we tell them what to do with the tools.

But I mean, we carry like primary explosives secondary charges and in the shotgun. And like that, those are our modalities are our weapons that we utilize for breach points. So yeah, I mean, we'll go up and do if the team lead says, let's do explosive breach or let's do a mechanical exothermic

or a shotgun ballistic breach, then, you know, we'll determine which one. And preferably, like you do that prior to in the mission planning and you come up with that. And the lead breacher has ultimate authority on the primary entry points.

So if he's like, no, we're switching to explosive or no, we're not doing explosive or gone exothermic or whatever, like that lead breacher will have the decision making process there.

Is exothermic and I'm not saying that word is that thermite? It's kind of like it's like a torch or yeah, you could go thermite if you have to burn through steel or something like that. And yeah, what?

So a lead breacher's responsibility is to get through an entryway in the shortest amount of time possible. So it could be concrete reinforced concrete. It could be two inch steel aluminum, whatever, it doesn't matter. And that's our mission. That's our job.

So now that you got out, are you like a construction contractor knowing all these depths?

Maybe I should burn this over to whomever else and go that direction.

You're cement only about, you know, six satchels thick, bro, I don't know if that's going to work or not.

Yeah, we do wall charges and teaching the guys at the time how to do wall charges, how to stick it on the wall and blow big ass holes in it. So

you know, today's video game kid playing all these things. That's how I know thermite personally, right? I've grown up these video games. I got thermite in them, kids are hucking simtex.

You know, they're all doing these different knife throws across the map. That's the tomorrow's you. That my son plays those games and I am well aware what you're talking about.

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