Milam Byers

Really?

Yeah.

he had busted some really bad guys a week or two prior and really messed up their, their terrorism and taking their money and a lot of what, what they were doing.

And, um, you know, Josh is, cause I have all his letters and he would write about, you know, like,

I want to be so effective that the enemy knows my name.

And every single letter he would write, I'd rather be here knowing that I'm in God's will and doing what he made me to do than sitting on some beach sipping pina coladas and taking life easy.

So he knew what he was doing.

He knew why I was there.

And he really felt God in all of it.

And so I would say he kind of achieved his goal because they did know who he was.

And, you know, in those situations, when you sit down and have lunch with a sheik or a leader, a mayor, like he was constantly in these meetings almost on a daily basis.

you literally represent the United States of America.

Like he's just a captain who's 29 years old, but he's literally sitting at that table representing an entire country, you know?

And so the bomb goes off.

I don't know how many vehicles were in the convoy, but it wasn't a small convoy.

His Colonel was in the vehicle right behind him.

and was kind of first on the on the scene.

His driver, a guy named Tim, who was with him everywhere they went in Iraq, every operation, every night raid, everything they did.

Tim was Josh's driver.

They were really close.