Contemporary Issues Through Videoconferencing

Our friends from Germany 🇩🇪 Part 2 in April. Had a nice convo with students from Sigmund-Schuckert-Gymnasium in Nuremberg talking about immigration and family histories

📣 to for arranging this conference🥰

Back in March we got the chance to speak with Colonel Justin Sapp. He was a Special Forces Green Beret captain detailed to the CIA shortly after the 9/11 attacks. He infiltrated Northern Afghanistan with CIA’s Team Alpha and was the first solider to go behind Taliban lines in 2001.

Shortly after arriving in Northern Afghanistan, Justin joined CIA officers Johnny “Michael” Spann and Mark Rausenberger to form ‘Badger Six’, a three-man element that split off from Team Alpha and deployed to Bamian Province to support Northern Alliance leaders from the Hazara community who were besieged by the Taliban. Justin served as a pathfinder for Badger Six and was responsible for reconnoitering helicopter landing zones for the CIA and Special Forces teams that would infiltrate central Afghanistan to support the Hazara leaders fighting the Taliban.

Since 2001, Justin has made numerous deployments to Afghanistan and the Middle East where he served at various levels of command and staff within Special Forces. Colonel Sapp retired from the U.S. Army in 2024 after nearly 30 years of active-duty service. His final role was as the Military Chief of Staff at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York.

He is a founding member of Badger Six, which is nonprofit charity dedicated to assisting 35 Afghan families of the men who fought alongside CIA Team Alpha and the U.S. Army Green Berets as these brave men/families were left behind after the August 2021 abrupt evacuation.

Congratulations to all my students and wishing you all the very, very best in the years ahead🎓✨🥳

Hosted our dear friend Professor Mark Wolters from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. We talked about Marketing, his travels and YouTube Channel , and general college advice for incoming students