Andres Santiago/ Special forces to Stocks

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Andy Santiago and I served together at 1/ 75th Ranger Regiment. Andy tells me the reasons he joined the Army, and how deciding to go to Ranger Battalion was something he didn't know much about at the time but he always wanted to challenge himself and what better way to do that than join the Army and volunteer once again to try and become part of the Army's elite infantry unit the 75th Ranger Regiment. He jokes with me about how everything he has done to this point with the military was always just been on a whim to see 'why not'. Andy explains how he's always wanted to just push himself to that next level whatever that may be.

Andy touches very briefly on a battle that happened on August 29, 2009, and how that day would change the rest of his life. Andy not only lost a leader but his closest friend, his Ranger Brother SSG Jason Dahlke.

We talk and trade our stories having been in both the 75th Ranger Regiment and Special Forces, Andy having gone to 7th Special Forces Group and myself going to 5th Special Forces Group.

As Andy was nearing his retirement he yet again saw a challenge that he wanted to master and that next step was the Stack market. He explains to me how all he really started doing was implementing the same techniques he's learned in the military and especially the skills he picked up while being a Special Forces 18F Intelligence Sergeant.

Andy is in the works of creating a YouTube channel that breaks the stock market down in a way that anyone can understand and that is helping other soldiers to understand it in a language that we are all accustomed to, putting it all into a perspective that we use in our everyday life in the military.