Nick Bare
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The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
When, when did you occupy the ranch, the property you own right now?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Okay.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
How old are you now?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Okay, so am I. So you went right into the Marine Corps after graduating high school.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
You were 18.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
So that was 2009?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
It was, yeah.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Okay, same as me?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Yep.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
How soon after enlisting the Marine Corps were you deployed overseas?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Within two years.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
And you were an infantryman?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Mm-hmm.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
What was that experience like for you?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
And was it everything you hoped it would have been?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Going overseas, fighting in combat?
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
It's character-defining years for sure.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Sure, yeah.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
Yeah, similar in the way you described now having the perspective of being older, wiser, having a family.
The Nick Bare Podcast
169: Nate Pontious' Journey From Combat Veteran To Texas Rancher
someone coming on your property and force of violence towards your family.