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The world of private military contracting is wildly complicated. Take it from Morgan Lerette - he's a retired Blackwater Operator, Army Intelligence Officer, and the author of 'Guns, Girls, & Greed: I Was A Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq', an irreverently honest memoir that shows both the good and the bad of injecting private armies into active combat zones in the name of diplomacy, spread out over the early days of the Iraq War.

With gut-wrenching tragedy, dark humor, and absolutely insane party stories that make 'Animal House' seem like a Disney film, Morgan's memoir offers a firsthand perspective of how men act and react in war, for better or worse. It's a story of national incompetence, international collapse, and the search for blood and treasure that either helped - or hindered - the American war effort in Iraq. Was all the carnage worth it? Let's ask Morgan.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
10:44 - Eat the Frog
18:29 - Moved in with Grandpa
22:53 - Air Force Enlistment, December '99
38:06 - Blackwater Bound
51:17 - Chaos Outside Green Zone
56:02 - Hindsight Morality
01:13:17 - Diplomats at the QRF
01:24:34 - Epic Animal House QRF Parties
01:36:24 - I Called Myself a Mercenary
01:40:50 - Writing the Book - Guns, Girls, & Greed by Morgan Lerette
01:57:03 - A Mutual De-Coupling, as Gwyneth Paltrow Would Say
02:01:35 - Back to Iraq, with Intelligence
02:12:11 - Time For An Out
02:17:31 - PTSD and The Great Complexity (or: Circuit Breakers - A Working Title)

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Get Your Copy of Morgan's Book, 'Guns, Girls, & Greed: I Was A Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq' at http://amazon.com/dp/B0C7P83DL6

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