Brandon Tseng
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And so we had like two months of, I was going to schools.
I went to tier one off-road, which was cool.
Got to learn how to drive off-road vehicles.
And then when the team got back, they're reorganizing.
That's when I got to go deploy with, I got to augment a development group.
And so, and then, you know, after pro dev hit ULT and yeah, that was a ton of fun too.
Yeah, no, exactly.
And, and, um, you know, can cover down on that.
Um, but, uh,
So to be clear, not part of SEAL Team 6, but got to augment them.
The SEAL teams were sending junior officers out to basically get experience.
And so I spent three and a half months in Afghanistan out of Fob Shank and Bagram.
And so I got to augment them.
the troop that had killed bin Laden.
And I tell people like, look, I was like basically the squire for the ground force commander.
But during that time, got to learn, it was a masterclass in ISR and targeting.
The troop would go out in the night and conduct direct action raids.
And then during the day, we were conducting kinetic strikes.
And that's where, you know, I got to play, you know, a really nice role as a junior officer, just coordinating those airstrikes, which was a lot of fun.
Didn't get to go on any of the hits, which was, you know, I get it, right?