United States Naval Special Warfare Command

Why this matters is that the sailors and Marines that are currently enforcing the blockade are operating in waters that Iran claims to be mined.

I know we've taken care of, and this is from Naval Special Warfare reports, that there's been a lot of de-mining in the area.

But should any strike resume after Tuesday, it would likely turn this standoff in the sea to much more of a shooting fight.

Iran offers to reopen the Strait in two days if we lift the blockade.

I worked with Special Forces ODAs.

I worked with Naval Special Warfare, all levels of Naval Special Warfare, Marine Recon.

I did the rotation of all of those with what I did, which was a pretty amazing life.

You

To, to transition to something else here.

And it's a world that we we've both shared, but you've worked with and around Navy special warfare athletes.

I call these guys athletes because they

are,

And I work with these people.

And sometimes that's kind of surreal.

And then I added to that working with with VHP and working with Navy Special Warfare.

And I was not I was not prepared to like working with the community as much as I do.

I was blessed about 20 years ago or so to my in-laws live in Virginia Beach.

So I have developed some pretty close relationships inside the Naval Special Warfare community.

And it was actually finally through those connections that people saw something I couldn't have possibly seen that was right in front of my face.

And the people around me, you know, I would forget.

So again, my in-laws are in Virginia Beach.

These guys had access to a clinic called NUCOA down in Virginia Beach.

And it's run by former community members in the Naval Special Warfare Community.

And they use a treatment called MERT.

I was in front of, there's about probably 50 guys from our church.

We're listening to Clinton Bruce, former Naval Special Warfare Officer, mountain of a man, just spoke with authority.

And he said, look, in any endeavor, you can be one of five things.

You can be bad, average, good, excellent, or elite.

No.

No, that was, so it wasn't until we got our first contract in 2016 through the Navy, through actually Naval Special Warfare, through Defense Innovation Unit, did we get, you know, the traction to raise, you know, $2.5 million from venture capitalists.

And then I tell entrepreneurs, you earn your right to more capital by doing what you say you are going to do and delivering for your investors.

And so we've now raised over a billion dollars in capital, have raised every single year.

That first proof of sale was super important.

And it's funny because...

Defense Innovation Unit was on the verge of not doing it, and you had a customer from Naval Special Warfare said, hey, DIU, you guys, it was DIUX, like, everybody knows you're not going to be around next year anyway, so just give us the money so we can do this project.

And right fast forward and now look at what DIU has become, and I think it's incredible, right? Very few people believed in that organization also in its early stages, and they've had to go through a lot.

Ukraine and Russia.

Wanna bring on Navy Special Operations veteran, my good friend, Tom Sauer.

What's up, Tom?

What's going on, brother? Good to see you again.