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Kris Paronto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2406 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

For the most part. And then you had to come back to the agency and put up with the bullshit or go, you know, try to stay clear of the Taliban. Somebody's getting in a fight or drinking too much. You weren't a tally bar guy? I went in there a couple times, but I wasn't a big drinker. No, I wasn't. It was too much drama. Yeah. It was drama or, you know. A lot of drama. A lot of drama.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

You just stay away from there. And, you know, a lot of women, the women that were there, you know. A lot of things happened on that pool table. Yeah. You said it. I didn't. But it was too much drama. It was just alpha women, alpha males and females. And no, I always said I was my best person when I was overseas because I focused on the job. I had fun. Gyms were good.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

You just stay away from there. And, you know, a lot of women, the women that were there, you know. A lot of things happened on that pool table. Yeah. You said it. I didn't. But it was too much drama. It was just alpha women, alpha males and females. And no, I always said I was my best person when I was overseas because I focused on the job. I had fun. Gyms were good.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

You just stay away from there. And, you know, a lot of women, the women that were there, you know. A lot of things happened on that pool table. Yeah. You said it. I didn't. But it was too much drama. It was just alpha women, alpha males and females. And no, I always said I was my best person when I was overseas because I focused on the job. I had fun. Gyms were good.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

There always was a gym and I could always work out. I didn't have a problem running around the area, and I loved running, even though, oh, you're getting all that crap in your lungs. Well, I'm getting the crap in my lungs in the gym with the little mini splits. So I loved it. And that first trip was all, first seven, eight months was off and on to Cabo. That's where I went.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

There always was a gym and I could always work out. I didn't have a problem running around the area, and I loved running, even though, oh, you're getting all that crap in your lungs. Well, I'm getting the crap in my lungs in the gym with the little mini splits. So I loved it. And that first trip was all, first seven, eight months was off and on to Cabo. That's where I went.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

There always was a gym and I could always work out. I didn't have a problem running around the area, and I loved running, even though, oh, you're getting all that crap in your lungs. Well, I'm getting the crap in my lungs in the gym with the little mini splits. So I loved it. And that first trip was all, first seven, eight months was off and on to Cabo. That's where I went.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

Kept going, kept going, kept going. It was fun, and I had a great time. Where was your favorite place to work? Kandahar? GECO. GECO by far, because all the ops were at night, so you could sleep all day.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

Kept going, kept going, kept going. It was fun, and I had a great time. Where was your favorite place to work? Kandahar? GECO. GECO by far, because all the ops were at night, so you could sleep all day.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

Kept going, kept going, kept going. It was fun, and I had a great time. Where was your favorite place to work? Kandahar? GECO. GECO by far, because all the ops were at night, so you could sleep all day.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

Favorite place for me was GECO. No shit. Yeah, I did love it. I love Kandahar. And I love, I got to do a lot of flyaways there. A lot of, Losh hadn't spun up yet. So we were setting up Losh Gagar and Spin.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

Favorite place for me was GECO. No shit. Yeah, I did love it. I love Kandahar. And I love, I got to do a lot of flyaways there. A lot of, Losh hadn't spun up yet. So we were setting up Losh Gagar and Spin.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

Favorite place for me was GECO. No shit. Yeah, I did love it. I love Kandahar. And I love, I got to do a lot of flyaways there. A lot of, Losh hadn't spun up yet. So we were setting up Losh Gagar and Spin.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

those places were still they were thinking about setting them up so we were doing a lot of flyaways and landing in the middle of the night in a soccer field running off the back of a of a hip which i hated flying those things i felt like i was flying in a death trap because you know slowly it's just but landing in a soccer field the middle of night having the local guard force can pick you up then you'd go stay in a bombed out building with some ratty old blankets and

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

those places were still they were thinking about setting them up so we were doing a lot of flyaways and landing in the middle of the night in a soccer field running off the back of a of a hip which i hated flying those things i felt like i was flying in a death trap because you know slowly it's just but landing in a soccer field the middle of night having the local guard force can pick you up then you'd go stay in a bombed out building with some ratty old blankets and

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

those places were still they were thinking about setting them up so we were doing a lot of flyaways and landing in the middle of the night in a soccer field running off the back of a of a hip which i hated flying those things i felt like i was flying in a death trap because you know slowly it's just but landing in a soccer field the middle of night having the local guard force can pick you up then you'd go stay in a bombed out building with some ratty old blankets and

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

but you'd go with your Canada, our security force too. So we'd always take guys with us. And I got real close to him. And I was also in part, I was also in charge of the training. So I'd run the training with the locals too, with our local QSF guys, you know, the local guys that worked with us. So that was fun.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

but you'd go with your Canada, our security force too. So we'd always take guys with us. And I got real close to him. And I was also in part, I was also in charge of the training. So I'd run the training with the locals too, with our local QSF guys, you know, the local guys that worked with us. So that was fun.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

but you'd go with your Canada, our security force too. So we'd always take guys with us. And I got real close to him. And I was also in part, I was also in charge of the training. So I'd run the training with the locals too, with our local QSF guys, you know, the local guys that worked with us. So that was fun.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#153 Kris Paronto - Inside the 13-Hour Benghazi Gunfight and the Hillary-Obama Cover-Up

So I, you know, I'd go over there and even though there was a language barrier, I'd go in there and with their CEO, with their head guy, and we, I drink chai and we just sit and we try to communicate. And it was fun. I enjoyed it. Played soccer. on that rocky soccer field where PT was.