Mike Baker

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1,559 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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And the folks that you mentioned and a whole slew of others, but you're right.

A lot of people just get out and part of it is they just get out and retire.

Or they get out and they move into some other job.

Consulting.

Consulting or whatever.

So maybe their work doesn't require that they say where they were.

And so if you move out of the agency and you go to work for

Even what's real, is there a helpful- It's like stolen violence, it's like seals.

Suddenly there's 2 million seals out there, right?

Right.

Where everybody in England was involved in the QE2, right?

So you're thinking like, how did all these people show up?

I walked into, we were in Iraq and I was walking up the steps of some building on one of the compounds.

And this was early days, early days of our incursion into Iraq.

And this should have hit the fan, but it wasn't getting bad yet, awful yet, let me put it that way.

But a lot of private contractors were showing up.

And I remember walking up the steps and I saw this guy and I had spent a long time out in Asia, in Southeast Asia, and I'd seen a lot of people.

And so there was this Filipino standing at the top in a standard sort of private security contractor uniform, khakis, he had his blades on.

He looked like a standard contractor.

But he was Filipino, so I stopped and I said, hey, you know, because I'd spent some time out there during the old days.

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