Mitch

Oh, wow.

Briefly recap 35 years.

Sure.

Um, yeah, we, uh, we were part of a mission going down to, um, down to the border of JTF six assigned from 10th mountain.

Um,

Previously, there had been a Marine Corps unit there.

Apparently, they had an incident.

We had to replace them.

They wanted a less kinetic unit to be involved.

We went down there in a matter of a few days.

I was the youngest guy on the team.

For the first few days, I got assigned to have to

you know, do the hard work of putting in the sensors and following one of the border patrol who was on a, uh, he was on horseback, got to learn a little bit about, um, picking up signs in the desert, stuff like that while we were placing these sensors down.

Um, it took a few days.

Um, I think we put in like 80 sensors or so along the border and, uh, we were getting some, they thought it was some glitch signals coming back.

Um,

being that I had just gone through the course, I had the most updated information and, um, what we realized is they weren't, uh, they weren't glitch signals, uh, that these people were being sent out for.

Um, it was, uh, subterranean and once, when I got pulled back, uh, to the JTF six headquarters,

They were in discussions of, of trying to remove the army.

Um, in case your viewers don't understand when units get put together like this, especially this mission, um, there's a lot of contention even to this day between the army and, uh, border patrol and who gets to take credit and who gets to stay, who gets to go.