Preston Stewart

Matt, thank you so much for the introduction.

Looking forward to chatting today with my buddy Chad and getting to meet Matt and chat for the first time here.

Yeah, absolutely, man.

So I left active duty in 2014.

So it stopped being my full-time job then.

From 2014 to 2025, I was in the Guard and Reserve.

So bouncing around between those two.

So part-time job, still had full civilian employment, but wasn't ever super happy or excited about what I was doing and started making content during COVID of subjects that I was interested in, primarily military history, a lot to do with World War II.

My background in college was international relations and terrorism studies.

I kind of figured you have to be in the government for that to actually be something that you would focus on day to day and started to look in that direction for some jobs.

But when the war in Ukraine kicked off, there all of a sudden were a lot of people looking to the Internet, looking to TikTok and Instagram and YouTube for updates on, you know, what is a tank versus artillery?

What does air defense mean?

fighter versus bomber, all of those little things that, for those of us in the military, you take for granted, and there was all of a sudden an audience looking for that information.

And it just kept going.

So I started spending more and more time on that.

And I've been fortunate now for a few years for this to be my full-time job.

Introduced me to some great people, have made some incredible connections, some awesome trips.

Yeah, love it.

But the primary focus right now is war and conflict around the world.

So a lot of that attention right now is obviously focused on Ukraine.