Send us a textDo not miss the first half of this conversation with Gary.   The Protectors® Podcast welcomes Gary Edgington, author of OUTSIDE THE WIRE. From Gary: I’ve been chasing the “bad-guys” in one way or another since 1976.  I guess it’s in my blood. My dad was a cop too. Tragically, he was killed in the line of duty in 1979 by a knife wielding lunatic. He got one shot into the guy, but it wasn’t enough. I was in the third week of the LA Sheriff’s Academy when that happened. After graduation, I worked for several local agencies including the Manhattan Beach Police Department, the Beverly Hills Police Department, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Then in 1994, I was appointed a Special Agent with the California Department of Justice. I worked major narcotics cases, organized crime, unsolved homicide, and internal affairs. Collateral with these assignments I was a firearms and tactics instructor with the LA office. From 1999 to 2008, I was a member of the FBI’s “Joint Terrorism Task Force” in Los Angeles. After 9/11, I was promoted to Task Force Commander and took command of a multi-agency counter-terrorism task force based in Southern California for the California Department of Justice. I retired in 2008 from DOJ and deployed to Iraq as an embedded counter-terrorism/organized crime subject matter expert working counter-IED with the US Army. https://garyedgingtonauthor.com/books/outside-the-wire/This episode brought to you by RANGER POINT PRECISIONhttps://www.rangerpointprecision.com/Support the showMake sure to check out Jason on IG @drjasonpiccolo