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Visit lego.com slash preschool to learn more. Fox News Podcast presents Great Americans with Brian Kilmeade. Hi everyone, I'm Brian Kilmeade. Time for the latest edition of the Great American Podcast. It gives me great pleasure to ring in Tim Kennedy, founder of Save Our Allies, but he's before that a ranger, a sniper, a UFC fighter, special forces operator, author and great guy. Tim, welcome.
Hey, great, great talking to you. Sorry, if the phone's slightly delayed I'm in the Middle East still. Why would you be in the Middle East? Is there any action going on in the Middle East, Tim Kennedy? I don't know. Well, not anymore. You know, we have a truce. I've been like in and out of reception.
I'm sitting in a gift shop complex parking lot, I'm assuming that's what it says in Arabic, because I had four bars to make this call with you. I'm honored. So Tim, tell me about your background and what led you to the military. It was ultimately 9-11 and being a young man that needed purpose, direction, and motivation, and ironically those are the definitions of leadership within the military, and that was something that I desperately needed and I found and have found to continue to find in the military. When did you realize it was the right move?
It was 9-11. It was watching people in New York City decide if they're going to burn alive or jump to their death, and recognizing I needed to do something, I didn't know what I wanted to do or what I could do. I ended up in every military recruiter's office from the Navy office to the Army office to the Marine office. I even stepped into an Air Force office, I'll be honest and say, but ultimately Army Special Forces is where I found my home. How did you realize you could excel there and pass through there physically? It's extremely demanding and mentally it's extremely demanding.
I just loved everything about it. It was because of, I was mediocre at everything, but the people around me had always and have always been just extraordinary people, and it was no different in Special Forces selection and basic training and infantry school, and then when I got through the Q course seeing just the quality of human that was there, I just had these aspirations to be like them. What could you tell me about some of your deployments without giving away any confidential information?
In the early war in 2006, 7, 8, it was vastly different than what it's been like for the past 10 or 12 years. I went to 7th Special Forces group and at the time they had a company in every group called the Sith. It was a commander's in extremist force and that group, that company of Special Forces operators were kind of tasked with the geographic combatant commander to be his hostage rescue and counter-terrorism unit. So we were chomping at the bit to get into the fight and Iraq in 2006 was our kind of opportunity to be part of a joint special operations task force that was tasked with hunting Zarqawi and the primary unit that was in charge of that, the special missions unit, obviously he died so they did their job and we are just to support elements to that and I was really proud of that deployment and you know Afghanistan and now for the past 10-12 years have been lots of JSETs around the world. You proud of what you've done and are you convinced that a lot of the people that you took out were going to be coming towards America going for Americans? With the total confidence, you know I'm not getting in the the geopolitical arguments about you know being in Iraq and being Afghanistan, what I know for fact is that the people that we were hunting hated everything about Americans, America and it was there they felt compelled that it was their duty to to kill us. That there was as an infidel we had our life had no value and our values had no value, our women have no value, our kids have no value. Well there's the monetary value that they would happily trade for human trafficking you know putting our women and children in sex slavery but they don't care about us in any way shape or form and they wanted to see us wiped off the face of the planet. Did it make it easier to fight them knowing they felt that way?
That's a tough question. You know war is war and war is horrible. War is it's the stuff of nightmares but you know having a being in uniform having a flag on your shoulder and most important is the mince your left and to your right. It was it was a profound profound calling to for me and still is.
I want to do this in some form or fashion until until you know I'm of old age and no use to anybody anymore. Why did you get out when you got out? I'm still in. I re-enlisted.
Why did you know that? In yeah last D-Day at Normandy after jumping at in St. Mary and Gleece where all of our paratroopers jumped in during D-Day I had the Chief of the Army and the Sergeant Major of the Army and General Donahue. So General George Sergeant Major of the Army Mike Weimer and General Donahue were there to re-enlist me. I had my head to re-enlist me.
I had my head shaved in a mohawk you know being just like the original as best I could men that jumped in and in a matter of fact in two weeks from now I'm going to be re-enlisting again for you know for a couple more years to just continue to serve. I love our military. I'm so proud of you know our colleague Secretary Hegseth being in there and all the change that he's making. We we are now completely respected revered and feared throughout this world which is exactly how the American military should be. So what had a wood role how can you still do save our allies while being in?
Yeah that that that's a that's a hard thing. So as an uh so I'm a National Guard Soldier um so I have you know a week and a month two weeks a year um for for me to have a good year and then you know I'll ultimately end up we always end up doing a lot more than that especially on the special operations side but I I'm a part-time Soldier. My full-time job is you know to help and support this administration um and their initiatives and um and build save our allies to be a mechanism that can support uh you know heaven forbid conflicts or war save our allies is is and always has been since Afghanistan of 2021. Well you know we have answered nearly every single call from Ukraine, Haiti, um Sudan, uh you know western North Carolina during the hurricanes and uh you know and now most recently here in Cyprus and Jordan and Israel. And Tim something totally separate but another one of your passions is fatherhood there's a need for fathers in this country you wrote a book about it. Yeah I uh we we desperately need men in this country to act like men um you know anybody can father a child but what we need is committed dads that are there um that are regimented and disciplined and being the providers and the protect protectors of their home um and you know that's that's a really broad statement just to you know to be able to provide and protect um but in this day and era in this age you know protect is is um you know giving those daughters reverse daddy issues instead of going out and looking for that guy that's going to provide the thing that that dad didn't do instead that dad is everything he is the bar he is the litmus test she knows exactly how she's going to be spoken to how she's going to be treated how she's going to be touched you know she knows what a loving kind word sounds like and you know every man that she will ever talk to you know from 13 to whenever she gets married um she's going to measure them against her father but men have to step up to be that that great example of what is what does that look like that means you know a faithful committed husband I love my wife now of 20 years and you know I have um I have two grown daughters that that I missed out on most of their childhood was at war and now having little kids back in the house you're like um trying to really set a standard for for them to live with purpose and direction motivation there you go Tim Kennedy doing multiple fronts saving those who are stuck overseas Americans fighting for the country still and also keeping the balance at home uh Tim Kennedy you fully fit the criteria for great Americans and the great American podcast thanks so much Tim yeah I appreciate you for more interviews highlighting great Americans go to foxnewspodcasts.com Fox News audio presents Unsolved with James Patterson every crime tells a story but some stories are left unfinished somebody knows real cases real people listen and follow now at fox true crime.com
