Scott Coburn

Yeah, Steve.

So when I was about eight or nine years old, my father worked for Ross Perot and EDS.

We got we got transferred over to Tehran, Iran to do a government contract.

And just so happened why we lived there was the was when the Shah was overthrown.

We got over there in late 78 and we were only supposed to be over there for two years.

Well, things escalated.

And literally one day with all the rioting going on in the streets, they had left a note on our door in our house that said Americans leave or die.

Wow.

Yeah, we were gone.

Our family, me and my sisters and my mom, were gone the next day.

My dad stayed over there to try to get the rest of the EDS people out of the country.

That's exactly right, Steve.

So essentially, this kind of speaks volumes about the kind of guy Ross Perot was.

He tried through Kissinger and the State Department to get the two hostages that had been taken by the Iranian government.

And when that failed, the typical Perot fashion, he formed his own team of ex-military guys that worked for EDS.

And they went over there and busted the guys out, brought them back home, wrote a book about it.

But my father was actually the deputy commander under Colonel Bull Simons on that mission.

Yeah.

And I saw how quickly it could escalate.

Well, the Shah seemingly had everything under control.