Scott Mann

You had active duty folks working together, passing information to fill the gaps that the top-down institutions weren't filling.

So we were, for example, in Pineapple Express and other groups, you had all these guys on the wall

looking at thousands of Afghans that they couldn't discern who was who.

So you had Green Berets and others on their phones.

They knew who, we knew who the commandos were.

We knew who the special forces were.

They trusted us and we could move them using remote comms to a right place, right time,

for near and far recognition signal with those young paratroopers on the gate and then present them responsibly as highly vetted individuals to that young paratrooper so he could pull them through that four-foot hole in the fence.

So you knew who you were pulling through.

It was a 20-year commando.

His family, his name is this.

It's on a baseball card.

Right?

And our generation of veterans came up with that like that in that chaos.

And they provided that information to fill the, it was truly, you talk about soft for life and military for life kind of organ, it was that, I think.

It was veterans really stepping into the breach and just helping in a relevant way.

I think that's still possible.

You asked the question, what would we do at home with the communities and the disarray that they are?

I think GWAT veterans could play a very critical role in this.

They could play a very critical role in the sense that they could help just provide information and analysis and thinking about what this could look like.