Frag Out Flavor Information

We provide America loving patriots with quality seasonings and BBQ rubs to prepare meals that bring families and friends together. Frag Out Flavor was founded in 2017 by Patrick Flynn, a combat veteran who served as a 12B (Combat Engineer) in the Army. My name is Patrick. From early childhood, Ive always had an entrepreneurial spirit. From selling painted rocks on the corner of my neighborhood street when I was only 6 years old, to operating a successful landscaping company through high school, Ive always dreamed of being a business owner. Fast forward only a couple years later where I enlisted as a 12B (Combat Engineer) in the Army. I served a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010-2011 conducting both mounted and dismounted route clearance patrols. I left behind my newly wed high school sweetheart, and newborn son who had come home only days earlier after an initial 2 month stay in the hospital (born at 2lbs). Whats route clearance? Not everyone knows. We made things go boom. Some days, haji got the best of us and we were the things that went boom like my gun truck in the Kandahar/Helmand province on July 5th 2010 when we hit a large, pressure plate initiated IED. But thats in the past. All things considered, Im blessed to be here and things could have been a lot worse. As it turns out, cheating death during route clearance operations was a great way to gain perspective on life and realize the importance of what most people take for granted day-to-day. Family, faith, education, and living the American dream, among many other things we've been given. When I got home from deployment I worked hard to earn a Master's degree in computer science. But my new-found perspective from deployment also fueled my ambition to take advantage of the opportunity to be a business owner. Lets face it, in the pursuit of becoming a business owner I didnt want to start a veteran oriented t-shirt company... The focus was on finding a way to bring something good to the table. Ive always been passionate about great food and BBQ, ...