Marine. Benghazi Annex Security Team. Co-author of 13 Hours. Co-founder of Shadow Warriors Project. Host of The Oz Cast, long-form conversations on service, survival, leadership, and what comes after the fight.
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MTNTOUGH PODCAST · MTNPOD #15102:15:00Near-death moments, spiritual awakening, and the work that came after: Shadow Warriors, service dogs, retreats. The longest-form interview Oz has given.
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Enlisted U.S. Marine Corps, 1984. Barracks duty Philippines, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines Golf Company, Surveillance & Target Acquisition Platoon. Marine Cadre as Anti/Counter-Terrorism Instructor. Intelligence specialty: interrogation, with Persian Farsi language qualification.
Out of uniform: Deputy Sheriff in Teller County, Colorado Vice/Narcotics liaison and Crimes Against Children investigator. Chief of Police in Fowler, Colorado. Bail bonds and bounty hunting on the side. Then 2004 Iraq, with Triple Canopy on State Department detail, USIS training Iraqi SWAT, and a mentor seat with Prime Minister Allawi’s security detail.
11 September 2012, Benghazi. The Annex Security Team holds the line for thirteen hours. 25+ Americans evacuated alive. Co-author of the bestseller 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi the book that became the film. Co-founder of Shadow Warriors Project: service dogs, retreats, and aid for contractors carrying wounds nobody filed.
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500,000 unaccompanied minors crossed since 2019. Nobody is counting where they ended up.
A trained dog is the difference between a contractor coming home and a contractor going further. The work happens at Shadow Warriors Project.
HB 1163 reads like a press release, not a law. The wrong people pay.
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