Accomplished Special Operations leader for 26 years with a passion for coaching and mentoring others and developing new ideas and initiatives while always maintaining the highest ethics. Brad is a highly analytical problem solver, adapt at arranging the individuals on the team for optimal success and creating opportunities for emerging leaders to develop and grow. With over 80 months of combat experience throughout Afghanistan and North-Western Africa, he has had the honor of serving with and leading the most elite people on earth. Brad Moses is a native of New Jersey. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in May 1995. He has served in the 82d Airborne Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment and 3rd Special Forces Group Brad resides in Holly Ridge North Carolina with his wife Stacy and their two sons, Hunter and Lucas. Brad has a Master of Science in Strategic Studies, from the United States Army War College, and a Bachelor of Arts, in English, from Virginia Military Institute

Intrepid Explorer of inner and outer worlds. Jo is an educator, a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner, was a Sundancer, a certified combat analyst,a student of martial arts, and an avid hiker, choreographer/dancer and swimmer.

Jo is a mother of a son and a daughter- Denali and Sequoia Schmidt, and former wife of the late USAF PJ, mountain guide and climber Martin W. Schmidt.

Jo's non-fiction, technical writing and research is published in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Pakistan, Russia, India, and Iraq (in English).

Jo publishes her poetry and creative fiction under Jo Patti.

She is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Massey University, and has her diploma from New Zealand School of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In addition, Jo has a Third Class Radio Engineering License (NYC) and completed numerous Professional Development courses.

In this episode, our returning guest Rick Green walks us through the Georgian Civil War from the eyes of the first American on deck in an official capacity. Rick was a Specialist in the Russian Language and Culture. He was selected to be a U.N. Observer to keep the peace between Abkhazia and Georgia as the nation started to split. Rick was in the conflict zone in a small safehouse in Gali, a town ravaged by both forces multiple times. He details his daily battle rhythm and some of the scarier times he experienced in days past. Rick also compares what we see today, versus what we saw in the past.