In this ad hoc episode Coach Mike sits down with Optimist Blayne Smith. Meeting in Fort Hood back in 2002, their lives come full circle meeting through a mutual friend in 2018.

They talk about Blayne’s time in Afghanistan as a Green Beret and losing his men in action. He lost 5 men, one of which was Timothy Davis, the man who is memorialized in the CrossFit Hero WOD “DT.”

Blayne opens up about coming home from the war and dealing with the loss of his soldiers, getting divorced, and working in nonprofits. Of course, Coach Mike had to wrap up with how Blayne found CrossFit and reconnected with Coach Mike.

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