Give us your background, how you got there, and then we'll kind of just go from there.

Yeah, so, uh, humble beginnings, uh, I always loved dogs.

Uh, and since I was a kid, I loved dogs more than anything.

Uh, after I graduated high school, I joined the Marine Corps on an infantry contract.

Um, and then shortly thereafter I got selected for, uh, the Marine Security Guard Battalion, which is, uh, known as embassy duty, and I served in US embassies in Bucharest, Romania, uh, Guatemala City, Guatemala, La Paz, Bolivia, and Lisbon, Portugal.

Um, my claim to fame on embassy duty was the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, better known as the Butcher of Lyon, came to the embassy in La Paz while I was working the front, uh, desk, better known as Post One, and he came up and asked for political asylum.

Um, it was denied, uh, and off he went out of the embassy sh- uh, only to be picked up shortly thereafter by French intelligence, flown back to France where he was put on trial, convicted, and he dro- he died an unrepentant Nazi in prison.

Yep.

thought Nick was a Malinois though.

No, Nick the Dick was a German shepherd.

Uh, when we got him, it's a German shepherd story time.

Yeah.

When we got Nick the Dick, I was with, uh, Who was I with? Sonya Nordstrom from the FBI.

She was in Slovakia.

And Jimmy Hall was with us.

I'm saying in the unit.