Jeff Tiegs

We weren't going to win Afghanistan.

There just wasn't that national will.

Was it something I wanted to continue to pursue?

And was it something I was willing to put my life on the line for?

And Mick, in that soul searching and even going back into my time and my childhood, and I write about some of these things and it's things that I'm, I like this age where you're, things have calmed down.

I'm not as ambitious.

There are certain, there's plenty of stuff in the rear view mirror.

There's plenty of water under the bridge and I'm able to look back and I realized a few years back,

I'm going to say maybe 2010 ish.

I'm a protector.

That's what I do.

That's who I am.

That's what I do.

And I will die trying.

There's a bunch of different words came into that, a guardian, a fighter, a commando.

Those are all kind of aspects that sit under that protector.

But that's that's who I am.

That's what God put me on this planet to do.

And I see my roles in that continuing until the day I move on to the next next phase of things.

And again, I don't want the listeners to misunderstand that I always recognize this or there was nobility in any of this.