Evening with us. Welcome. Its good to be here. Thank you. With all that our nation has been through in 2020 and still going through right now, its a good time, its a good place to honor those who have fought for our nations freedom. On this day we turn our attention to the warriors who served in combat, left their families and friends in the comfort of home to do the dirty work of their nation. These post 911 veterans are also featured in my brandnew fox news book modern warriors, real stories from real heroes, available on november 24. Im looking at a chapter in each man that is seated with me right now. Well get to that later in the program. They have all made the difficult transition back to civilian life but today, accompanied by yours truly, they will return to a previous job, the profession of arms. Check out first our modern warriors. The first is fox news contributor, you know him johnny, joey jones. A former marine staff sgt served in iraq and afghanistan as a dod tech, survived an ied attack and lost both of his legs after eight years of service triple j now gives back to his Community Volunteering for multiple organizations. We also have former army ranger chad fleming. Hes a war hero who was deployed five times after becoming an amputee. Hes been awarded this Meritorious Service medal, two metals of valor and three purple hearts. And Morgan Luttrell and former navy seal and 14 year military veteran, deployed multiple times around the globe making out leads research into veteran ptsd and has made it his mission to assist. And finally nick irvin, the only one here with with judgment. [inaudible] he has close to three dozen confirm killed. He earned his reputation for being the deadliest in his field as an army ranger. We are here today in texas. Where in texas are we, south of fort worth, we are with some highly decorated bets and together were uniform temporary band of brothers and test out our shooting skills right behind us. Any predictions quick before we hit the range. Oh yes, joey all day. I bet joy will get lastplace. Thats like a golf score,. It sounds like theyre downplaying expectations. You guys do enough of that in the media. Im with the sniper. I think the sniper is the man to do it. We shall see. Should we hit it. Lets do it alright gentlemen, that was a long day of shooting. Nick, according to my paper here you might be the champ. Talk to us. It just comes from a long history of rangers leading the way. All always give credit especially when credit is due. That was one of the most impressive shooting expositions ive seen in a long time so kudos to you. I appreciate it. Im not sure being a ranger had anything to do with that. It was a little like a videogame. I play a lot of video games. I came in strong. I took my time, hidden targets, my trigger finger, the stability and my legs arent quite there, i cant take a knee. A knee has already been taken. [laughter] 37. [inaudible] i get a 22nd handicap for not taking a knee. I did not do well. You did poorly on the first one, but you recovered very nicely thats why in golf you can handicap. Hold on, when it comes to moving, you smoked us. 46 seconds. Everyone else was at a minute. I came out strong initially in the first couple rounds. How did the big guy move so quick. Have you been shot out before. Yes. Do you just recreate that. Let me ask about that. I dont have ptsd. I spent my entire career dash. Let me ask you this. Does it ever put you behind the scope, maybe not. Maybe you shoot so much that its been so long but does it bring you back. Its one of those things i like to do, but to be honest i like playing the guitar more than shooting now. My kids, the only reason they know im in the military is because thats my job. Im proud to be a marine but i dont ever only want to be a marine. Some people dont understand why youd gone the military or why did you this credit something i always wanted to do, something i enjoyed but it was a job. You never go over there to get in a gunfight because you hate the people in front of you. You go because the people that you love are behind you. Its nothing personal, its a job. It just so happens that your job sometimes gets a little dirty. Is this a pretty familiar scene, the hours spent on a range, repetition muscle memory that gets you to the point. Were on tv today, were not on cleanup. Is the first sgt going through and checking everybodys rifle or is it in individual team thats different. Youre responsible for your own weapon. If its dirty you have to clean it up. Every piece that hits the deck will be picked up and accounted for by you, by the team. That tool is what keeps you and your buddies alive. People think its silliness, but its attention to detail. Theres nothing worse than a clip when you want a bang. To take care of and properly maintained by the shooter, its rarely the weapons fault. Its your fault. So when the magazine fell out. That wasnt my gun. If someones going to hand you a weapon you better familiarize yourself with it. You guys are taking notes, right. Copious notes. This should go in the next field manual here we go. Hold on, go review that. Its true, every weapon, every time has to be the standard otherwise you dont know if the guy next to you will have the ability. For sure. Weve got more on this but more on the individual stories because once a warrior, always a warrior. Veterans who gave their all on the front line sharing their stories from modern warriors, real stories from real heroes when we come back, after the break. Sales are down from last quarter but we are hoping things will pick up by q3. Yeah. Uh. Boss doug . Sorry about that. Umm. What. Its. Um. Boss you alright . [sigh] [ding] never settle with power e trade. It has powerful, easytouse tools to help you find opportunities, 24 7 support when you need answers plus some of the lowest options and futures Contract Prices around. Dont get mad. Get e trade and start trading today. Welcome back to modern warriors and the cool thing about todays episode is that usually we go topic by topic, and this time we want to go person by person. Thats what this book is about, books with the series has been about is that most americans havent necessarily had a chance to sit around with guys that have seen what youve seen, grab a beer, have a conversation, get the real story. I want to first start with nick, your story and chad, yours as well which is chapter 14 and chapter four accordingly in the book. Nick, you tell an interesting story, you were in combat and then you learn about this guy whos a chechen, a wellknown sniper on the other side. You find yourself on the receiving end of sniper fire. How do you manage that . Look i can only say this looking back but i was really cocky as a kid. Really cocky. One of the most humbling experience ive ever had a chance to be a part of. I thought it was a really good sniper, had a really good record under my belt at that point but being on the other end of the sniper rifle and he would have us move to the left and the right and then four of us were in that whole and for guys on the outside and for about four hours we played volleyball with bullets. They called in air support not the time you can accept anything greater than a. 01 collateral damage. We were told to fight out, we started to get over run, surrounded and there were a few hundred guys on ground and they were supposed to support us but they were pinned down in their own engagement and we had a fight ourselves out of that position. Man i really hate the story. I dont hate it but its tough to talk about. You said you were cocky, yet every time he went out you were scared every time he went out. Oh yes. Big time. It was after, i think if it hadnt been for him, he came in and took care of that and saved our team. Five minutes after that i watched him take two rounds in this little ravine we were in, i could hear the bullet snap or pop next to my ear and i thought someone was shooting a gun next to my head and i looked over to the side and saw that bullets were impacting on the bank behind me and thats when i saw a 15, 25foot ambush with shrapnel out of his leg. It was like old vietnam stuff, they ambushed us and fought from there for a little bit, watched the medic try to put two tunicates on and it was pretty tough. Turned to get to the safe haven room and im yelling in his ear and i felt like a splash of warm water hit my face and he went down in this big gaping hole in his chest and he put his hand inside the hole to stop the bleeding and hes going in like get this guy, get this guy and im in shock at this moment. Its the only moment that ive ever like actually been scared in combat and it hits you in a different way. That when i think stuck with me for the longest time after i got out, but that was the most intense, humbling experience in combat that ive ever had. We are letting the rangers lead the way on this. You talk about, most guys dont deploy five times let alone five times after theyve loslost part of their left leg. You talk about the sensory, the smell and sensory of returning to work after having had your leg amputated. Talk about overcoming that. Its hard. When you left that country last, like the first time going back over after this injury, as i was coming off the aircraft i was smelling the same smells that i smelled when i was being put on the aircraft which is a medical aircraft to get out of there and basically go on to walter reed. Nick mentioned the humbling experience, youre just overwhelmed with thoughts and emotions that you have a daily reminder when something goes wrong. A lot of times prior to that i know i would, and a lot of other people what is well, you taken for granted. You go overcoming you do your job you come home and youre okay. You get back on the aircraft come you go overcome you do your job and you got into a cycle of just doing that everything will time, but then you have Something Like this happen and every step you take reminds you of what that bad day was so i remember that first time coming back in. It didnt go away after the first time. Every subsequent time you go over immediately. All these guys will tell you, the stench in iraq is very different than the stench in afghanistan. You can close your eyes and you can say believe im in kabul. Or you say i believe thats muzzle. Its almost like this culinary ship, you know exactly where you are and depending on what the smell is is where your brain goes and starts associating it with okay, what happened when i was here last. Youve got to be able to come i said earlier you have to be able to compartmentalize that and realize you have a job to do and youve got to get your buddies in your teammates depending on you. You cant dwell on it. Im in a bang bring up navy seals for second because both of you in the chapters of your book talk about Charlie Sheens movie, navy seals. Wow. I dont know how many guys enlisted in the military, talk about the impact of why you joined. I graduated with a 1. 7 gpa. Wasnt the smartest guy on the planet. It was just one of those things that i kinda had to do. I barely made it through, but i think the coolness of it, explosions, all that was a big factor and i really believe that those guys did what they did in the movie, the little rockets on motorcycles and stuff like that, those dont exist, and sniper rifles that you never get a chance to shoot so you are saying when he wakes up on the beach with the shoe in his hand in 24 hours later hes sees rescuing someone. It was not like that, no. I dont know, my buddy and i called it the saving private ryan effect. You watch the movie in your motivated motivated to goad join right then. Im a little bit younger than summing all, but i was in high school when 911 happened and im like theres no way a generation of americans is going to fight this war and im not can be a part of it. You mentioned maybe you talk about it a little bit your chapter, expand on that. I think it exists, its one of the reasons, like we were all talking about earlier, was that burning desire to go serve. I went in prior to 911, but thats what i wanted to do. Prior to Charlie Sheen, i watched, my dad let me watch apocalypse now so im thinking you fly in and helicopters and im just like i gotta do that man. That is so cool. Then once Charlie Sheen jumped on the back of the jeep i was like im in. I do think there is something that gives you that burning desire to go serve at that level. Hey, yes, send me. Its not that desire to go get a gun fight or go get into battle, its the desire to take care folks that are around you, your team makes. Make no mistake about it. There aint nothing cool. Its not fun, its not glamorous, it sucks. Its a miserable job. Youre away from your families come youre always cold, wet tired and miserable and some is always trying to kill you. You always have an opportunity to get injured, but you want it. Its like a drug. I think of spicy veterans having a hard time when they do leave service. Like morgan said going overseas and deploying and they missed that support mechanism. Print thereon my right and left and thats my support mechanism and i think thats a big part of it. No one else will get you the way those people well. Thats true. Thank you guys. If you can join our talk with him to talk to morgan and joey in just a moment. Please, preorder modern warriors. Real stories from real heroes. It will make a perfect keepsake or gift from anyone who wants to know what it means and what truly takes to be a patriot and a warrior. Well be right back. Hey, dad hey, son no dad, its a video call. You got to move the phone in front of you like. Like its a mirror, dad. You know . Alright, okay. Hows that . Is that how you hold a mirror . [ding] power e trade gives you an awardwinning mobile app with powerful, easytouse tools and interactive charts to give you an edge, 24 7 support when you need it the most plus 0 commissions for online u. S. Listed stocks. Dont get mad. 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Everyone in the military is one thing, to have the job of being the guy called to the front and dispose the bomb that people know almost nothing about but they know it could kill them, how do you manage that. I think theres that moment of when you know nothing but absolute misery is in front of you and youre ready to thrive on it, thats the weird gene. This is going to suck and thats why im here. There is no explanation for it, it just feels awesome. The more adversely on my back, the better our manager doing it. You probably got more out of serving after losing her leg than before because not only can i do this but i can do this with this leg and i think that rolls into the side of it, somebodys gotta do it, let me do it. Its kind of that same mentality. Half the time they didnt even have a gun on them because their job didnt allow it. They had to be on their hands and knees and its a moment of truth. Did you pay attention, did you learn, do you care you want to be there, all those questions you can maybe go out and complacency can hide, youve got to have your Knowledge Based on your skill base and you gotta be able to work with people to give the information out that you work with so you can see what they saw. These are the most unappreciated, underrated bad asses. We like it that way. You cant do this job out of ego. Youll make mistakes and you get people hurt. Thats whats cool about it. You talk about rational fear versus irrational fear. Youve studied the brain, part of your lifes work out of the military is to understand that psychology in combat for people who havent been there and havent seen it, how do you manage it. Training, muscle memory, we do a great job in our perspective services of training and training and taking as close to x as humanly possible. What i mean by that is not actually inflicting harm on ourselves for what we cannot operate. So, it mirrors itself so well because we trained so hard and create so much misery in the training process that when it goes off in real life, literally that just takes over. I didnt know this before undertaking this project, you had a serious training accident in 2009. It could have ended your career. Just another day at the office i like to say. Like anything else, we were flying with the 160, arguably the best on earth in my opinion and they hang out there and we hang out there and we just collided with the ship and killed one injured. But i gotta tell you there wasnt one short of the individual that passed away, but everyone else fought as hard as they could, including the pilots that we ended up deploying with months later i got back online and that goes to that warrior gene and the whole you have to fill. For me i just took back, and joey was taking about that earlier. I could use this for a reason, to do nothing, back injury. I couldve used my injury to do nothing and say im done like these guys, they say hell yeah, im going back. Its just an injury, so what. Hit hard baby. So you talked about in interview you did with abc after you got injured and you said you barely recognized, you characterize it better than i did but you are optimistic in a way that you didnt really understand how you could of been optimistic. How did you take the view that said hey that was the worst day of my life coming down to build up from there. Thats a milliondollar question. I think it comes from a couple things. For for me personally, specific to me i had a brandnew son and all i could think about was man, he did not get the short end of the stick because i got hurt. Hes not gonna not have a dad that does things like throw the ball and do those things so i had no choice but to get out of bed. From a larger picture i think you just appreciate life the fact that daniel got killed when i got hurt, he died and i lived so whom i do sit there and whine and moan and complain about these injuries when these are proof that i lived through it. He didnt. I want he doesnt have his life anymore. Its about knowing they hit the delete button on him. Im lucky to live. Cherish that and go live life and enjoy life and contribute and make it mean something. For me it was like a boost of energy. It was like a boost of purpose. I think these guys would tell you, that moment you find your purpose purpose in life, and that might happen times in life but the moment you find what youre here to dedicate your time to, in that moment, thats life right there. For me it was post injury. Being in the hospital and thinking you might not live through that, right on, lets get it done. Not looking for a handout, just a handout. We talked about this there can be that pervasive sense, ive got these injuries and thats why am for the rest of my life, how do you unpack that. I never wanted anybody to look at me like that guys handicap, i want to be the guy that yeah, im handicap but im in out run you if you want to get in the foot race. Is it harder for me to it do, what you do easily, i want to appreciate it more and probably going to eventually be better at it. Ive got a put that much more effort into it. Its gonna mean that much more to me. I dont ever get mad at someone for taking stuff for granite, but im not going too. What i love about this is you get a chance to hear guys in their own word. Its an interview in their own words, talking about their experience the emotion, the fear, the management, the humor and thats why i think people enjoy it. Weve got a few more topics, under the Trump Administration a Peace Agreement kindly brought the taliban to the table, but are the taliban all talk. 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Whats the goal in it. You can tell me about the why and tell me what the goal is and how were accomplishing it, you can look back five years ago and it was still just moving the goalpost. Were we ever going to bring peace . Know we were making sure nothing came to us and attacked us from afghanistan. Im on board with triple j to be honest with you. I think theres no distinct, clear endgame at this point. When your senior kids deploy, thats the whole reason of deploying so your kids dont have too. Im just come at this point, 20 years is a long time. Will it end well . In the Afghan Government survived, can they defend themselves. I hope this doesnt sound too cold but i just dont care. I just dont care about what happens to afghanistan, i just dont. Any country for that matter. If they cant take care themselves, i dont really see the need for us to always have to step in and fix something. What you think. I agree from those standpoints come of that country has been at war for thousands and thousands of years. The interesting thing about our sons and daughters going into the military now, wait until you go so long that youre now in gunfights with the kids that were three and four years old when the initial wars picked off. Thats enlightening within itself. So now theyve grown up, as did their parents and grandparents and their greatgrandparents but thats what theyve grown up in. If they sit down and have a negotiation, its meaningless. They never come to the table with any endgame. They come to the end game and its all most like a timeout. Okay we will give you peace, and what theyre doing is there recovering. I dont understand how bringing the taliban to the table, when your country is commodity is terrorism or terroristic activity and instability, drugs, something that we dont allow, any of tha that, what good is it gonna do too have a peace treaty with them. The taliban is going to go away, if it goes away someones there that we pissed off well enough thats gonna gather some forces, Gain Momentum and working to start all over again. But can we afford to do that any more, china is trying to build an army. They say how bad is it gonna be if someone else comes in. You can even look at it like we are 20 years seasoned veterans ready to go for another round in the ring or were burnt out. We seriously print out. Were either lying in wait, ready to come if the fight has to come here all awaken that demand once more. I have one more demon left. Renal ask one more question what does life look like after war smartly exhuming civilian life can sometimes be more dididididi two medical societies have strongly recommended to doctors to treat acute, nonlow back muscle and joint pain with topical nsaids first. A formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. A formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. Salonpas. Its good medicine. 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The glass is halffull, were making progress. I think we got started a little late. Offer this, the perspective that if you have an 18yearold that goes from high school where you have to go to school, heres your class schedule, heres the uniform of the day come you have to wear these if you go to that type of schooling you enter into the military and youre in the military so now youre 28 and then you offload from the military which is very much a bullet train going down the tracks. They dont slow down at the station and they just put you off. Here youre introduced into the world, civilian world but youve never lived in it. Youve had mommy and daddy and then you have the service and now youre alone, and believe it, make no mistake about it theres no ceo, no Company Standing there, no job offers, theres none of that. Imagine how, what a blow that is to the individual, and then if you add injury, and individual that has had a traumatic injury to the brain, we still dont have a good understanding of what that looks like and its a very slippery slope. Now everyones coming to the realization ive seen these problems we need to work on these transition, and now the infrastructure is starting to be built. I think part of the problem is the relationship between the millennials because a bunch of us were milling meals and the relationship between that millennial and the recruiter and the government and going into the military being promised 20 years of service and medical care. I think it was a good thing when it was created but now its debilitating because we dont get out and understand the rest of our life is still up to us. We have to get out with bigger and say im in a go tackle the next thing. Their summary opportunities for veterans to go out and find that next chapter of their life. He got close that chapter and you gotta move on. It was hard for me. It was hard. It was. For me it was just scared of losing that edge. At that time in my life i was 17 years old when i joined the army, parental consent and that was my peak, as bad as i ever would be. I think havininininin when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. Finding understanding doesnt have to be. Together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. Go to autismspeaks. Org since pioneering the suv in 1935, the chevy suburban has carried many things. Nothing more important than family. Introducing the most versatile and advanced chevy suburban and tahoe ever. An herbal stress reliever ashwagandha, that helps you turn the stressed life. Into your best life. Stress less and live more. With stressballs. Welcome back to modern warriors. Thank you very much for being here and obviously for your service. It was a fantastic show. You still know how to shoot. He does. He can move. This guy can still shoot and joey is an all around good guy. You guys have been fantastic. One of the best group that weve had. Its representative of this book that i know america is going to love. If youre not a member of fox nation subscribed to fox nations now for a patriot plant and youll receive a copy of this new book featuring all of these guys and more and to watch the directors cut, the longer unedited version you can go it to fox nation. Com. Thats enough for us President Trump declares coronavirus vaccines could come as soon as next week, as the pandemic reshapes americans thanksgiving holiday. We are rounding the curve. The vaccines are being delivered literally it will start next week and the week after. A promising timeline but questions persist about who will get it first, how effective it will be, and scrutiny rises over one of the top contenders. Well ask u. S. Surgeon general dr. 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