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Shaw who is in charge of the Mountain Tactical Institute for bettering

yourself as a mountaineering extreme athlete or just want to be better welcome to

the show Rob Shaw well thanks thanks for having me rad

coast guard huh yeah grew up in a small town wyoming needed to pay for school

and i ended up the coast guard academy and uh spent uh time there did my academy time got, and I went on a buoy tender for a few years,

and then sat on a desk in Alaska, and then went back to Wyoming.

So that's kind of my...

What's a buoy tender?

The Coast Guard, at that time, it was a long time ago, graduated from school in 90, I guess, in the academy.

So I'm an old guy.

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