Sean Parnell: Ground Truth From Afghanistan

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest on Danger Close is not only a former infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan, he’s also a current candidate for the United States Senate.

Sean Parnell is a Ranger qualified 10th Mountain Division soldier who spent over a year on the front lines in Afghanistan before being medically retired as a captain for wounds sustained in combat. Sean is a passionate advocate for veterans and co-founder of The American Warrior Initiative.

Sean is also the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan, and the popular Eric Steele series.

The latest installment, Left for Dead, hits shelves on Sept. 7. A third generation Western Pennsylvania native, Sean is currently running for the United States Senate.

You can follow him on Twitter @SeanParnellUSA and learn more about this campaign at parnellforsenate.com.

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0:00.0	This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr.
0:16.8	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Six Hour.
0:21.2	I guess today is Sean Parnell.
0:23.4	Sean led Aplatoon in Afghanistan for 16 months with the 10th Mountain Division.
0:30.1	He chronicled that experience in a book called Out Loud Platoon.
0:32.7	And if you don't have out loud platoon, you need to get it, you need to read it, you need
0:35.9	to gift it to friends right now.
0:38.0	It's one of the most poignant, most emotional and engaging memoirs of Modern Warfare that
0:44.5	I have read.
0:45.7	He also started the American Warrior Initiative and as a series of books with Eric Steele.
0:51.1	The next one comes out on September 7th.
0:53.8	He ran for the House of Representatives in the last election cycle for Pennsylvania's
0:57.4	17th Congressional District and he is now running for Senate.
1:01.5	You can go to Parnell4Senit.com, check out what he has going on there, join Parnell's
1:06.7	platoon and set up for his new letter, make a donation, find out a little more about
1:10.7	him there.
1:11.9	We talk about his time in Afghanistan on this podcast and we talk about his run for the
1:16.4	House and his current run for the Senate and the state of the country.
1:21.4	Sean is a patriot, a warrior and a friend.
1:25.6	So without further ado, Sean Parnell.
1:30.8	So we met at Chris Kyle's funeral on the bus to that funeral and I remember there was
1:36.8	like a seat left next to you and I sat down next to you and we started talking and hit
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