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It's quiet in here. It's nice and calm This would be way more embarrassing if there was two thousand seats and they're just show it's not worth it. We're like well We were tired next week Why did you need this menu? Do you guys get nervous when you go on stage? Oh, yeah, dude. That's what that calls for. Yeah I don't really get the nerves too much anymore. No, it's their professional politician now. Oh I like this one Just twisted a little bit deeper in the ribs. No, it's the like the first show like we got a little bit of like the adrenaline and stuff, but I think now we're just comfortable with what we're doing. Yeah, I'm getting way more comfortable. That's awesome. It used to be I take a nap before every show how long big 20 minutes 30 minutes. He like and straight up nap anywhere. Yeah Is that old man in general? Let's say that old man in that military. Yeah, again What's up, buddy? Hey, yeah, welcome. We I mean we were excited. This is part of the veteran month so This entire November it's like hey, let's do these episodes with some veterans other than Brandon. Oh, fuck it And just and always we're doing something with Getting back to the community. So like hey this entire month will be like all these shirts. Oh, yeah, I said the word Community You're like what the fuck this is right in the bottom Community became such a buzzword on the podcast that we made it a drinking game very well Shit But we're doing shirts like this I love this one. That is right for today's And the other ones, but all the 100% of the profits for the shirts go we just donate it. That's awesome four or five non-profits Which now we have a good few we're excited with the ones we're working with this. Yeah a couple new ones too. Yeah Yeah, it's won't something help you. Yeah, yeah, help a lot of people. Yeah, who you're working with right now We have Independence Fund boot campaign and now with care sneakers foundation. That's awesome Which we're stoked for yeah, no, that's incredible. Gary's needs foundation. I mean we spoke about briefly at lunch, but Gary himself is one of the most incredible Americans I've ever met personally And he's he's been there for me every step of the way in my family. But yeah, I mean they they Just do an incredible amount for the country as a whole. So it's pretty awesome a lot of people are going for For something else. So yeah, yeah, do you make him say that? Lieutenant Diane I brought you some ice cream and in In their headquarters in Franklin they've actually got like the bench from forest gump with the shit box chock What's on it? Yeah the whole backdrop and everything. It's cool. So you can take a photo there if you go visit But so you you actually told me something earlier that I didn't know because I had always heard the story with Gary's niece that What got him involved in you know working with veteran non-profits and like really getting impassioned about it was Playing the role of lieutenant Dan. Yeah, so that that I mean that's I would say that's what skyrocketed everything for him, but His history with working working with working for veterans and the emergency American community as a whole I mean it's it started when he was 17 or 18 years old on Broadway and crazy Vietnam vets were coming back from overseas, you know physically and mentally wounded And he was just yeah, just zero support and he was Hearing their stories sharing their stories working with them, you know on stage and theater and whatnot and just became an advocate from from a very very young age, but he's I mean it's just multiplied. I mean A million fold. I don't even know, but he's he's an awesome awesome individual. Personally, I've had you know Quite a number of conversations just with him one-on-one and he has been nothing but genuine. It's awesome as you were saying He's like you know, it's a good dude and truly curious because he texts you every couple of months It's like one of those things that it's a veteran thing. I thought where it's like I gotta do my homey checkups Like hey, how you doing? What are you doing? How's your mental health? Yeah, here. Remember just more things about my life going on than I do Like damn. Yeah. Oh, you're right. I didn't have that going on But he'd be like how's your how's your little brother doing? How's your little sister doing? You know, how's your mom? And uh, yeah, he's he's been awesome. He was there for my mom when I when I was in the ICU at Walter Reed and I woke up and inpatient one day and she was like hey Gary Seneese wants to give you phone call and FaceTime you when you're You know when you're ready and I was like who is that and she's like Gary Seneese and I was like mom I don't know. Well, I don't know what you're saying right now And she was like lieutenant Dan and then I was like oh no fucking way Serious I was like absolutely I was on the phone with him like an hour later and Just like hey man. I'm here for you as you know as a friend and your family anything you need let me know So it's been it's been that way ever since but it's nice to know like those those are the the types like Kiana Reeves and stuff like yeah Okay, they are actually that nice person pretty unbelievable. I mean you gotta have A ton of mental capacity to meet that. I mean you guys know too, but meeting that many people and just having to be the most Real authentic version of yourself all the time Fakeness will come through if you try to do that the entire time. It's gonna peak its head and then Go down in the fireball now you a favorite thing to hear real quick is just like when people meet us or like people like that There's like oh, yeah, you're exactly the same in person. It's like no, it's it's not because like oh, I you know, it's not morally That's not the reason. We're just too lazy to have a person now like a big personality. Yeah, having one's hard to offer It's it's blast yay which again shout out to everyone that's making the black shows. They are As you see on social well, they are a blast Lot of work, but it is a really good time and you guys are showing up and making it Fucking so much fun just with the crowd interaction yelling. Oh Sometimes too much yelling What the fuck you yelled too much Not during like jokes. Yeah, the hecklers all the time But even the reddit then I appreciate the reddit because they were you guys Check each other too like hey, don't do that. Which is awesome to hear. It's like hey guys. I understand Now I can tell a lot of us are autistic and don't know how to do inner issue Social cues. I mean because it's like yeah, we we understand like you're having a good time But like when you're shouting over the jokes the guy next to you here. Yeah, he's missing out. Yeah, I'll hear Cody What are you do? What'd you do yesterday? What I forgot that yeah, decompressed And I've never seen your fucking my box go red before It says exceeded. It's kind of warning Rest in peace headphones users But yeah, it's still super appreciate all your comments now Mr. Tyler. You are a military former military. What year did you join? I'm listening to 2017 give the low down. All right. I'm Rincor veteran. I'm listening to 2017 out of Northern California. I grew up, grew up in Northern California and I was stationed at Camp Pendleton, California. Not I don't think there's probably a better place to be stationed as a Marine, a better worse place. You have access to everything and a lot of fun. Great time. When you say everything. Everything. Yeah, pretty much everything. I think, man, probably 2019, in 2020, we had like 10 dudes all at once get busted in a cocaine and steroid ring. Yeah, unfortunately. Somebody got beat up and they moved. Unfortunately, they got busted. Yeah, yeah. They moved all the grunts to where all the pokes live. As you can expect, it was like 100 infantry Marines, 200 infantry Marines versus everyone else who wasn't and a lot of a lot of things happened there. But yeah, no, I'm listening to 2017. I went to bootcamp in San Diego and then I was in O311. I knew that being I grew up. I didn't grow up seeing the dress blues Marine fighting the lava monster and the dragon, but I saw like the recon Marines coming out of the water and I had no idea that recon Marines and SF and Marsock were all different things. I was just like, yeah, I want to be special operations or I want to be special forces and then my recruiters like you're a fucking idiot. And I ended up scoring like a 90 or 91 on my ASVAB and he was like, you're not going to be a grunt. And I was like, that's the fuck the only thing I want to do. Yeah. And so I went that route. I went to school of infantry West at Camp Pendleton as well. Once I got out and I was in early 2018 and then went to second time first Marines. Second time first Marines, I was a boot very junior Marine. That's you know, the derogatory phrase, but the proper phrase is, you know, being a boot. And I got NJP pretty early on. So what did you do? Not, yeah, non-judicial punishment. Oh, you do. Do you know what I mean? No, not do I. Yeah, it was crazy. That's always everyone's first learning. No, no, no, no, it really, it was really dumb. It just comes out swaying. I'm like, oh, yeah, got this, this is beat your wife. Yeah, I was manslaughter. Yeah, awesome. No, I, uh, the poor family five. We were out in the gas line district in San Diego, definitely not, um, underage drinking. And I allowed one of my friends to alter my ID. And so, you know, I was born in 98. We made it look like a, like a three, I think is what it was. And I never used it like all the, all the bars down in San Diego, all the clubs, like they know fucking that's Marine, you know, central. So like, they let you in as long as you're not being a jackass. And, uh, so I never used it. It's like by alcohol hundred A's never even used it to get in the club underage. We were always able to get in. But right when I got to the fleet, so I got an infantry school like boot camp, infantry school, got to the fleet. Um, we were there like two months, two and a half months before unit got back from that last, their last appointment. And so it was just a lot of like, you know, hard training and, uh, and whatnot waiting for the unit to get back. And then they get back and your fresh Marines to the fleet and everyone fucking hates you. Yeah, everyone fucking hates you already. Just, you know, it's, it's tradition. It's, it's what it's supposed to be. Just getting back from that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And so, you know, they came back from their, uh, their war torn country of Japan on their UDP. I'm not, um, just like, bro, you're just watching anime. Yeah, they, they, uh, they pulled us all in, you know, we're doing the whole like running around. Being, uh, being a young junior Marine, learning things, getting things thrown at you physically and, uh, you know, um, hypothetically, I guess, but they pulled all of us in one day and two of my buddies, there was probably about 10 to 12 of us that had, uh, had their IDs altered and two of my buddies at the time, fucking dumbasses went to pass an ID and they're like, their chips and their cards like to, you know, to put them in the little cacker reader, uh, stopped working. And so they needed to get new IDs. We're doing like the annual training and whatnot. And the past and ID placed on base confiscated their IDs and they're like, yeah, you guys fucking altered your IDs. And they had drawn and sharpie on the back of their IDs to thinking that that was going to cover their asses and make it look like they had them fucked with their IDs. So they got them confiscated, called the battalion, pulled all the, the military IDs they fucked with. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then they went to, you know, they drew and sharpie on them. Yeah. And so that is a moral property. Yeah. And, and so, uh, they, they pulled, they pulled us in and confiscated all of our IDs. Uh, and one of our staff sergeants at the time was like looking out for us. He didn't, he pulled out like two more IDs out of the stack and he was handing them back out. And our, our gunny at the time was like, let me see those ID staff sergeant. And he was like, I already checked him gunny. And he was like, I want to check him. He was like, give me the IDs. And he took the IDs room and pulled out like eight more handed out all these IDs. And there's like, you know, ten of us standing there. He's like, all right. Uh, if you didn't get your ID back, see us in the company office. And so we all go to the company office. And everyone immediately just like, you know, we're like, we're fucked. This is in the world worst thing ever. Like this, how does this happen? And uh, everyone but me accepted the NJP like on the spot. They signed the paperwork. They got the two weeks of restriction slap on the wrist. And like, you know, nothing, nothing really happened. Like some promotion restriction. I, my mom was a family attorney. My whole life, uh, grown up. And she was always like, if you ever getting any trouble legally, like civilian or military request a lawyer, like no matter what it is, request a lawyer. So I'm like, I want to speak to a lawyer and they're like, you what? You want to speak to a lawyer? And I was like, uh, yeah, I want to speak to a lawyer. And so I had to wait like three days and to get an appointment on main side. And so I'm just, I spend the next three days, fucking cleaning the CP, getting screamed out by every single person in the Italian. And they finally get over to the, uh, to the lawyer. And he was like, brand new, fresh lieutenant Jag and he was like, Hey, uh, well, your NJP paperwork says that you altered your ID. So you didn't, your, your friend did, you know, according to your story. So, you know, go into nine JP and like, it's going to get fucking sent away. So I followed his advice that go on there into nine JP, battalion Sergeant Major calls me up to his office. Super thick, you know, Mexican accent. He's like, you think, you think NCIS isn't going to figure this shit out if I can. And I'm a stupid Sergeant Major. And I'm like, stand there, pray rest like holy fuck like my life's over. I'm, I've been in the Marine Corps for eight months, like I'm getting kicked out with the fuck's going on. And he slams my ID down the table, opens his drawer and he pulls out a razor blade and he throws in the desk. And he was like, have some fucking integrity. And he sits there and he takes the razor blade. And he's like scratching it back and forth across the spot that was altered. And it's like getting stuck in that one spot. But the ID didn't look bad. But, you know, I was born in 98, like saying 93. It was, you know, messed with. And so he's like, it's like getting stuck. And he was like, if I can figure this shit out, you think NCIS isn't going to be able to figure this out. I'm like, and he's like, have some fucking integrity. Like tell me the truth. I'm like, Sergeant Major, like, this is what happened. This is what the Jack told me to do. You know, I made a mistake. And he was like, all right, he's like, thank you. He's like, I'm going to push for a 6105 or page 11, whatever it is. And I go back down. It's not up to him though. It's up to the company level. So I go back down there. They pulled my NJP paperwork, tear it up in front of me, type up new fucking NJP paperwork saying that my, your friend fucking altered it and NJP me and, you know, was like, come be a level at the time. I was like, oh, this is it. The end of the world. You know, I'm like, fucking tears my eyes. Like, oh, my gosh. Like talking to my squad leader, my platoon sergeant, and they're like, your piece of shit, like, you, but, you know, do better. And so it was honestly the best thing that could have happened. From then on out, I was like, I have to, you know, I can't fuck up where I can, like, got to learn to not get caught. And so, you know, from there on out, I was like, I need to be the, you know, the best that I can fucking be. And it was, I was on my peace and cues. And it was honestly the best thing that could have happened. I mean, from there on out, how terrified I did for anyone that doesn't know that is, that would be fearful, especially your sart major. Yeah, it was bad. Yeah, I'm doing that door knock. Fuck dude. You get to go in. He did one of those like, it wasn't even like yelling. It was just like, low, hey, like, hey, you're fucking idiot. Like, tell me the truth. Mexicans aren't major. Yeah. It was good, though, man. I mean, I, uh, from there on out, like, I legitimately just I was like, I got to be as physically fit as I can be and learn as much as I can. And, you know, I saw a lot of bad leadership in Marine Corps, but I'm very grateful, like, my direct leadership, my squad leader, my team leaders, like, they put into me a lot. And, uh, you know, anything that I can handle, they gave to me and I was the first person to get merit or see promoted to E4, um, above all my peers and most of my seniors. Yeah, after that, my promotion restriction perfectly aligned up with the same month that I was picking up E3. So after that, I got Maritory's E4 and I got Maritory's E5 above all my peers. And so it was great. Yeah, quite literally. The second dude, I can't even imagine the tearing up. Like everyone signs it and you're like, "Oh, I'm a lawyer." That would have been, you're thinking in your head. It's like, "Oh, yeah." I'm sad this is a good idea. And then you see all the ice go like, "Have you ever talked to your mom about it after?" Yeah, well, that phone call. Like, after I'm like, I was like, "Waiting to go to legal." And I'm in the car and I'm like, "I gotta fucking tell my mom." And I was like, "Hey, I'm gonna a little bit of trouble right now. I gotta go speak to a lawyer on Monday, it's Friday." And she's like, "What the fuck did you do?" And I was like, "I can't tell you right now." But it's not that bad. And it really wasn't that bad in the long run. But I thought it was the end of the world. So she was like, "You're a fucking idiot." But I can't believe this. But yeah, it's a good thing. She was like, "It's a good thing you're requesting a lawyer." And I'm like, "It doesn't seem like it's a good thing." Everyone's like, "Treat me like shit." Oh, you were right. Yeah. I was terrified. I wanted to say. I was like, "Oh, fuck." Do you ever struggle with tiny toilet tree bottles? No. Well, with Mando, struggle no more. 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You're going to have a can't stress enough imagine where you're your company and your battalion because it was everyone in the company or battalion that was like yeah no it was everyone it was everyone in the battalion like every it was every like I'm walking past every company office and it's two stories and it's come here yeah come here close and smoking you too they weren't really smoking me they were just screaming like and I mean like I would rather just taking fucking pushups like you know hold a plane or squat whatever but they're just fucking screaming like you're the worst you're the worst like you I'm just like yeah I think I am you know it's like I was high of mine yeah it was bad but it worked it really did work and honestly you know I don't know I can't say that you know my trajectory in the Marine Corps would have necessarily been different but I was definitely like okay like I got to make a name for myself and you know grateful that I had the leadership that I did and yeah it it worked out I would say or maybe it didn't I don't know but free parking yeah yeah god always the light at the end of the time it's like well no property taxes pretty fucking dope you're like hmm so during that time it was like one of the dumbest soldiers you had met because we had to have some dumb fucks in that time frame oh man I'm trying to think of like a really all right I'll share I'll share one like one personal guy that was in my in my squat he was in my one of my teams when I was when I was a boot we're in 29 palms and you know we're desert training I want shares name but we're in desert training and he the Marine Corps had fielded the like the M27 DM variants so like they were at that time you know 2018 they're the only ones that had IARs the HK M27s that had a suppressor and they had like a I don't know maybe a two to 12 times scope on it or four to 12 or something but yeah I mean it was it was kind of like a you know it shoots 556 but it was like the hey here every squad gets one of these or you know three to every squad or whatever it was they knew they needed to overbuild them for the Marines yeah exactly and because the rest of us like at that time when I got in team leaders and squad leaders had M4 M4s and 203s and then everyone else was getting fielded M27 so we all had IARs and we got a 29 palms and it's like a battalion level exercise or company level exercise and one of these dudes in my team he's we're doing like EDL like doing counts everyone you know they're counting for all these all the skeer and stuff and they're like all right DMs like all the DMs come here you guys are gonna go do this range or whatever it was and they're like Marine where the f**k is your suppressor and and they're like we're like what's going on over there like Marine where the f**k is your suppressor and he was like it's back at the hooch staff sergeant and you know we're I don't know 20 miles outside of like where we were like staying for training and we're like we're in the field and he was like oh well we were I was told to take it off like if you know if we're not run if we're not like using it if we're not shooting if we're in garrison I was you know I was told I could take it off like yeah but retain it you know what I mean like take it off and retain it so it was not smacking on should or whatever he's like so I left it behind and and then they're like hey the word got around that he was in my team and or in my squad or whatever it was and they started saying like what is Corporal or you know PFC f**king Vargas is is missing his suppressor like he's stupid bitch like talking about me and I'm like this is not me like I didn't lose my suppressor and everyone's like hey like I'm just fucking I got flashbacks you know I'm getting screamed at like like dude like hey this is not this is not me like he's in my squad he's not in my team or whatever it is and then like they're trying to mitigate the problem like guys in my squad and my platoon are trying to mitigate the problem like it wasn't Vargas like it was so-and-so but you're getting bullied on his behalf yeah everyone's like hey you know this first sergeant this gunny this staff like hey you stupid bitch like your piece of shit I'm like dude oh not again and I didn't even do it this time exactly and so I go back I volunteered to go back with him I was like I at least I can do as fucking like help this student so we go back the f**k Hoaches are locked so we drive like an hour back to wherever the Hoaches are locked it's just those you know you cut the can you cut this can in half and lay sideways on on the ground and that's like what you know we're standing and the Hoaches locked and I'm like how the fuck are we gonna get this do suppressor and there's like a window like this big like that fucking big up top and so I like boosted his ass up he goes in their climbs to the window and gets the suppressor and we come back and missed all that days that entire day of training and like we're sitting there with motor T and like same thing like every f**k staff and CEO is just coming down the line like you're a piece of shit like like you do and like how do you lose your suppressor and like dude this is this was not me but that was uh that was a boy next to you just like yeah quite literally he's just like I'm not gonna throw him under the bus when I hit like it wasn't me and uh you can say his name right now if you know I'm not gonna have all this time no no it's all right I that same so to kind of allude to that a lot of you know they call they call your junior Marines your peers they call them your sisters right so like my sisters my other my other buddies uh I had become like the first boot team leader or you know second boot team leader in arpal tune and uh you know we're all getting uh trained hard and well right and so you go you go and like someone f**ks up in the in the fire team or in the squad or whatever you know kind of mass punishment uh pretty often and so you know you're going and doing your your thing in the barracks room or wherever it may be and we come back from cold weather uh mountain warfare training in bridge port and uh our company commanders like uh yeah in northern California okay so it's like near it's near mammoth uh in northern California this year in Nevada's but we did our uh mountain warfare training centers there for the Marine Corps they do like summertime like the horseback riding or like wintertime do winter mountain leader and like teach you to f**king ski and shoot off skis and do stuff like that still do horse riding yeah yeah special operations go up there uh do training and like like fight off the horseback the stuff but okay that makes way more sense yeah yeah and uh fight off horseback well okay maybe that doesn't make sense Horses with that scare the shit out of them with the guns you surprised the the relevance of horse warfare It goes way later than you think. Yeah, it was there were million used in world war two I mean, they were yeah, I mean Afghanistan. Yeah, yeah, literally in Afghanistan. Yeah, they were still using it It's just ODA five nine five. Yeah, yeah, it's but yeah, they still they still teach it there and We come back so they're lining us out. You know, I've got all our extra cold weather gear company commander is Checking out everyone, you know, making sure everyone's got their shit so they can turn it back in and That same dude is like hey So-and-so is like hazing me like right in front of the company commander like in and you know He was a little bit of softy and Yes, I would say he's like someone yeah, he's like so-and-so is like hazing me But he wasn't saying it to the company commander He was saying it to someone else, but like he's like when so-and-so was hazing me at this time the company commander's like right fucking here Whatever right behind him and the company commander our company commander. He like kind of looks back And he just doesn't even say anything. He just like keeps going down the line and and then our fucking Leadership direct leadership's like you guys are all getting fucked up like for him saying that He guys are getting fucked up and I'm like I am I'm sick again up for this dude. I was like straight up. I was like hey I'm not I'm not fucking paying for his mistakes anymore. I was like oh if you guys want to watch me beat his ass like I'll fucking box him Like I'll do whatever like I'll be his ass in front of all of you like I'm not I'm not doing this anymore like he's fuck so He's up too much, you know Yeah, so he's up too much and they're like all right Well, he has to be okay with it and I was like he's gonna be okay with it like we'll make this happen after work And so I'm like hey you and I like I've got boxing gloves you are gonna go gonna box in front of so-and-so You know at the end of the day because I'm not getting fucked up for your bullshit anymore And he was just like okay, and so you know sure should we go and like body shots turn into face shots and Yeah, when I was expected, you know, it was it was good, but that was that was kind of the end of that as a as a young junior Marine But you you fuck it was weird because that's a one way they learn it's unfortunate But they will continue to fuck up, but when you do like that push of punishment words. I've watched dudes have to low crawl a mile Yeah, and like rock you're like no fucking low-crawl like can't keep low-crawl like Just keep it going and it is rock. They're gonna cut up and they're just like you can't pick your face up I'm just sliding and it is around a track and around a track. I was like, oh, I really Up but again different military at the time because it was like match match match punishment. It was quite all right. I mean Like as we are all very well where it's unfortunately changing now, but it's At the end of the day. Yeah, it's a war they're war fighting organizations. That's it period nothing else It's a war fighting organization if you can't handle getting screamed at or getting fucking punched in the face You probably shouldn't be there, you know, you're not gonna like in shot at a problem. Yeah, exactly Yeah, if you're worried about a name being called yeah battlefield not the place for you. Yeah, what is it? Do you think we do here? Yeah, exactly as I never understood especially like infantry level. It's like yeah, homies This is why do you have a problem with this? You're gonna get fucked up. Yeah Learn or die. Yeah, literally learn be the best you can or die and kill people along the way because you're stupid Weak don't get me wrong like there. I mean there are times. It's cross the line But I mean every everything that I've seen in the Marine Corps infantry for the most part first hand is like hey If you feel like you're not being treated like a man, you know, you fucking speak up and you say something and Speaking upside they're verbally saying something or you know, blows are being thrown and and that's that but there's only like a couple instances In and around the regiment where like dudes were legitimately getting haze like someone Someone's name was like swim like legitimate their last name was swim and like they Were being made to swim like in the bathtub and like some Obserge shit and like a gas mask and stuff like ridiculous, you know, pretty ridiculous stuff. He got a lot. I Can't confirm her tonight. I don't know, but that's always the one thing. Yeah, what they do though He's like just hit him with the what was he wearing? Yeah, what was he wearing? He deserved it to your lord So fuck man, and then your first was it your first deployment when everything happened or my so that was my second The first deployment. I mean, you know, they call it the the booze crews the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, so it's We were on an offship for months at a time and between Indo-Paycom, so it was in a Pacific command. That was South Korea, Japan, Australia, and thank you for your service. Thank you. It was a blast So was the second it's so cool. Yeah, I was a second. Yeah Sorry It was it was a blast so yeah Australia I got so nervous when you didn't laugh. No, no, I honestly Was no processing what he said. I can't honestly really hear out of my right ear. So if like I miss anything. He's got the better ear, but Yeah, no, that's funny. Oh my gosh. Yeah, cancel this guy Yeah, how long were you there? Second second blast or first blast first blast that that was like six or seven months That was in 2019. So I think we left in like April of 2019, but Yeah, we went to we flew you know like flew from the US to Germany to Japan to Okinawa and then We were in Okinawa for weeks to a month or so and then we went on ship for a month or so traveling around bitches Yeah, it was it was a blast man. We got to Kind of freed off off the coast of Japan spearfish. I mean, that's fucking cool. It was ever been outside of the country before One time and in 2017 my mom took myself my siblings to the Bahamas for like a week And I was like the only big family vacation we'd ever gone on, but Now that was like my first time being like immersed into a culture and you know, I was so slanted We it was uh, it was it was cool. Yeah, Japan is awesome. People are great. Um, we caused a lot of problems You definitely understand. I mean Why prices are jacked up around military bases and people don't want to interact with you sometime So we would go me and my friends like The smart Marines would go far away from base, you know, um, and then japan uh South Korea, right? Yeah Yeah, exactly. I get the tape out. Yeah, I think they're buying it Where we're like, you know, we're like grunting and pointing to order stuff in the menu, you know, but I'm the customer South Korea was awesome. I mean, that was all just like lifefire training and we were just a little south of DMZ Camp Rodriguez and a few other places in South Korea, but that was a fun time We were supposed to go to Seoul and ended up halfway there drunk off a train Um, and had like actual Korean barbecue, but uh, we spent a lot of time like training and also like playing fucking soccer with the rock Marines and Republic of Korea Um australia probably by far my favorite. I mean, they just stay in love Americans man. I don't know if you guys have ever been australia or not, but The voice heard that from other sailors and especially the women they just fucking love. Yeah, that's a truth American dudes. Yeah, and I mean unfortunately domestic violence is like a significant part of their culture uh for from men against women Yeah, that's what they told us in our cultural briefs and uh, they're like hey if you see like I didn't women getting hit or yelled at like don't do anything and you know, there were Marines that definitely tried to australia. Yeah, yeah, the same brief right back. Yeah That is I didn't see any of it, but we had a great time like with you know, with the men and the women take that however you want, but It was uh, it was fun man. I mean, it was really cool to see another country that like that. I mean the reason Anyone listening the reason why they had loved us so much is because of our rich roots back to world war two and world war one But you know they they're just as patriotic as we are honestly. I like a true patriotic American like true patriotic Americans it was the same over there. I mean they had In Sydney. I remember they had like massive like war memorials and a lot of it was like filled with American history and like Americans in world war two and like what we did to help them um, that was like really cool colony siblings. Yeah, yeah, exactly Um, it was it was awesome. I mean, it was just I was at that point where I became a bootteam leader and I was in e4 So like they're like hey you guys are ported in Sydney and Brisbane for like four or five days Any e4s or team leaders can you know get a liberty pass to get a hotel and in both of these cities for the weekend and so We just got to go party for you know four days five days at a time and then we were doing Makila raisin to the outback and watching dingos drag kangaroos around and shit and Getting attacked by literally everything. I mean you you everyone here's like how lethal Australia is and I mean Again eaten up eaten alive by the ants and the spiders. 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It's a new sex summer It was funny because like one of the times we were doing They're doing like they brought CLB Marines and combat logistics battalion Marines into like land and do a mock like embassy recovery or Reinforcement and they're like coming in out of the or they weren't fast-roading But they're like getting off the osprey's and shit and there's literally kangaroos like on the LZ like Pressing up on them like get the fuck away from us and They don't give a shit. That's why watching them like oh up. Yeah, they're nuts Like no, I'm good. Yeah, I mean a lot of guys got to try like kangaroo. They're in Australia. I do get the opportunity Yeah, I missed out we just one of those like you get too drunk You're supposed to go to the zoo or go to go wherever and I'm just where you try Yeah, there's like Just like taking the free samples from the Bass Pro stockpond. Oh This was a heading zoo Shit kids are screaming. Yeah, that's tabbing Now that's a scenario I grew with your mom. You should probably get in a turn Shit, yeah, it was it was a it was a good time, but that that deployment is when I got we were in Korean I got a mary torsie promoted to E4 and then we came back Took over the squad My squad leader became a platoon sergeant and then I went to advance every school moved into 2020 and What's advanced infantry school? So it's it's advanced at the time it was advanced infantry course now It's like I don't know like advanced infantry marine course there the Marine Corps has changed a bunch of stuff But it's like it's pretty much you're like squad leader school. So like oh be you. Yeah, I mean it's up to That point like I had great leadership. So I had been taught everything so school was like very like Education-wise I had already known everything. It was just like one of those like check in the box You need to go do a bunch of hardship physically and like pass Get promoted. Yeah, like while you're learning while you're performing these tasks and whatnot and then came back and My my buddy Dalton he what who was ended up. Sorry. It's something. I My buddy Dalton who ended up being my assistant team leader for my sniper team. He was like hey I am going to run the sniper screener No one knows and the platoon other than our lieutenant and now you I was like you son of a he was one of my best friends. I've like plenty of times where he was like I was a boot He was my first squad leader and like he was like also my dad kind of the Marine Corps. I grew up without a dad Or I had a dad for a little bit of my life, but he was like my dad in the Marine Corps and fucking were brothers now But that dude like taught me everything he knew Train me very hard along with the rest of my peers and plenty of times where I wanted to punch him in the fucking face and plenty of times I have punched him in the face and likewise to him but I was like you son of a bitch. Yeah, I was like you son of a bitch like I would have gone with you to the run the screener and He was like well, let me see if like they're still accepting paperwork, and it was like a Wednesday night We're in the field and by Friday morning They're like hey if you can get your entire packet done like you can run the screener on Monday, and I was like well Run the screener. We both got selected and then went into the sniper platoon I turned down school to go do the assessment selection from from our sock and I ended up giving myself A hernia larger than the size of a quarter and I'll write on my asshole and missed both sniper school and going to Assessment selection and so like I was stuck for weeks like couldn't even do a fucking push-up and I remember I like one in the work. Is it bad? Yeah, I went into work, and I was like hey Doc like I need you to check this out and he goes all right, you know drop your pants spread your cheeks, and I do that and First words out of his mouth were oh my god, and I was like dude, are you fucking serious? He's like that's bad I'm thinking like when you're describing you're like oh, yeah, it's a hernia the size of a larger than a hemorrhoid not a hernia Okay, got it. Oh, that's okay It's a ramping round I'm like dude Yeah, because I'm like because you said the size of a quarter I'm like that's not bad like on my asshole I'm like holy fuck. Yeah, no sorry your guts are just like my fault. Yeah, that it was a hemorrhoid Okay, still yeah, no this yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty bad They popped it. Yeah, they gave me they gave me like you know fucking corded cord zone cream and Yeah, like steroid cream and antibiotics to put on my ass all every time I shit But yeah, so I missed out on that and then You know fast forward a little bit through 2020 going in at the end of 2020 There's a lot of back and forth like hey you guys the Marine Corps had opened up All of the sent-com deployments back to the entirety of the Marine Corps so at for a couple of years at least Only seventh Marines who are based out of 29 palms out of the desert were Getting those Middle East deployments and so they opened it back up to the entire of the Marine Corps We had one or two units from our regiment that pumped out right before us and then We it was our turn, and it was a lot of like hey you guys are going. You're not going. You're going You're not going and then like two months before a couple months before they're like alright you guys are going and so Stand up with that was it like standing up everyone's getting at like oh we got to get everything ready and then stand down Or is like hey just ever just keep up all your kit good just in case Yeah, I mean we were I mean we were we were already preparing we knew that we were going on deployment We just didn't know what deployment we were going on For a lot of it. It was already like we were prepping for that for probably like six months or so and then suddenly They're just like hey you guys aren't doing this and then we were already you know prepared to go So then the back and forth started, but yeah, we were we were ready as ready as we could be anyway and Then we went on that deployment And like for a sniper platoon When sniper platoons were still a thing in the Marine Corps at that time like every team every sniper team goes to a different country Essentially, so like you've got the battalion the unit, which is the battalion and the battalion is broken up into multiple companies You got like you know three line companies, which is all like the the grunts like rifleman whatever machine gunners and stuff and then you've got like Headquarters company and then you've got weapons company and weapons companies made up of snipers heavy machine guns heavy mortars All that stuff anti tank And so all the sniper teams they get reattached back to each individual company So we went to Al Jaber Kuwait first with echo company and that was pretty cool because echo company is like where I came from That's the the company that I grew up in and then went to snipers from there This was April I think also April of 21 or so you guys want hot Kuwait. Yeah, yeah human is It is just like Walking through water. Yeah. Yeah, it's all but it's 120 Yeah, yeah, it's bad because it's right on the border of Iraq and Yeah, we were we were there and then they were preppin us to go to in to Syria and I don't know I don't know whatever happened with that. They're like hey all of the bases in Syria are gonna be broken down and like you guys are Gonna follow in trace and then one day they're like oh that's not happening more like you guys are going to fucking Saudi Arabia And so we went to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, and as a show of force for Iran and then sat there for you know Five months or whatever it was and just like the rest of the world watched afghanistan fall over months and how it's not like Sorry, like something new for me even Saudi Arabia because I don't even know what a deployment - A guy who's forget we will send soldiers over there or Marines, but what does that until? It's like, show for us, that means, okay, hey, we got our vehicles, we got overhead, everything's covered. But what is the deployment like with something like that? - I mean, it's just training. I mean, it's small unit training and then running ranges, just really fucking working out and training. Like, that's real. - Oh, yeah, same shit, same shit. - Yeah, same shit, but like, I will say Saudi Arabia, like, people say like the sandbox. Like, Saudi Arabia is a fucking sandbox. It was just sand dunes, that's all it was. It was 125, 127 degrees and fucking mile high dust storms just coming in all the time and shit. - Like, dust storms, a dust storm is insane, 'cause you can't, you won't see SAV or show in a dust storm. They are gone, like gone, and you just have to park your vehicles and be like, "Hey, where you cannot go, everyone stand down." - I just experienced one for the first time, like a couple months ago, we were up at Iseekman's place, the Boseman, and I'm sure it wasn't anything close to like what they were in Saudi Arabia. But I never, I didn't know that was even a thing that happened in this country. But just suddenly we're outside, it gets really f*cking windy, and then immediately you're just hit, like you see this haze and you're just hit and like, it's all on your fucking side of an eyes and food. Is it not, Montana? - Oh, Montana, oh yeah, damn, I had no idea that happened out there. - I didn't either, I was just like, what the f*ck just happened? Five minutes later it's gone. - They're doing these right now? - It is, yeah, they're quick. - Is that wave as you watch it come towards you and say, you're like, "Oh, f*ck, getting a vehicle, I'm not going restroom or anything." - Well, yeah, it starts out, you see it like a mile out from you and then just suddenly, you can't see. You can't see, you can't breathe like nothing. - Oh yeah, sand the sand worms. (laughing) - Lisa Nakai, you think? - Yeah, they're heading east or wherever. - That direction is through that movie. Cody would know. - And then you got like, you know, we're Marines, so the sandstorms come and we're like staying in literal tents, like a little half dome tents that fit, you know, eight to 10 people in 'em and the sandstorms come and then you've got Marines outside and they're f*cking underwear with goggles on and like, gas mass and sh*t. And just like f*cking doing dumb sh*t out in the middle of the dust storm. But yeah, it was a, I mean, it was a great time. It was interesting for sure, but I mean, every day, yeah, we got, uh, yeah. I believe we got combat pay in Saudi, I can't remember, but they were, they were shooting like the rebels, whatever, I can't remember who it was. - That was. - Yeah, probably. (laughing) They were shooting some people. (laughing) So we're on Prince Sultan air base and you've got like whatever, I don't know, entity is fighting the Saudis. Whatever rebel entities find the Saudis, they're shooting rockets. They know where we're at. We're on this tiny little, you know, barbed wire fence base on the air base. And so they're shooting rockets and sh*t over us to hit the Saudis, but they won't shoot 'em on to us. So like we obviously, you know, won't retaliate. And so we're just like here in the sh*t, go on. Occasionally, it wasn't like every day, but occasionally it's going on or it wasn't going on on our side of base every day, but. - That's funny that they're afraid of you guys. - Yeah, no, it's actually. - So they're just like. (laughing) - Oh, dude, if a rocket, I guarantee if a rocket accidentally hit them, they would kill that dude that shot it and drag him to be like, (clearing throat) - Mr. Sari, sorry, kill him for it. - Yeah, I did. - No problem. - We handled this for ourselves. - Yeah, dude. - I don't know. - It was, yeah, it was, it was an interesting time. I mean, we, they put the Marines so it was like, traditionally just Air Force and Army there, and they put the Marines a mile f*cking this way on the farthest side of the base away from like everyone else. So if you wanted to go get like actual food, you had to walk a f*cking mile. If you wanted to go use like the big gym, you had to go walk a mile. Which just meant like, you know, bigger tent, but filled with fitness equipment. But they, uh. - It sucks on base. - Yeah. - Anyway. - Yeah. - People have done deployments to the big fobs. Like, cause you're just out in sector. Everything's really small types, everything's good. But on the big bases and the big fobs falcon, whatever. Maybe not falcon 'cause they have like buses and bus routes. But those ones are the worst 'cause it is, I gotta go to the chow hall. - Yeah. - Group walk mile, eat walk back. - Yep, gym walk mile, walk back. And then it's 125 degrees, the sucks cock. - No, that stuff. Yeah, you're drinking like a liter of water on the way to go eat breakfast. Yeah, and it was funny. There was actually, so I, I actually almost died before going to Afghanistan and something funny, you know? - You said, it's funny, I almost died. - That's why I started laughing. I was like, the only dude that would start, it's funny, I almost died. - Yeah, how fucking do you? - It's like, you started that, it's funny. - So like, I, there was a running joke in our team. So our team, there was six of us in our sniper team and the running joke, like I was always like, I make my own fucking luck. Like I would always say that shit. Like, you guys make my own fuck luck and we're going to Kuwait to use the army sniper ranges there. So we're, you know, flying, flying over there and we're walking back from, from chow and there's a ladder. Like, and one of the guys was like, go fuck and walk in the ladder if you make your own fucking luck. Like in the team was like, oh yeah, I make my own fucking luck and I go, run the ladder, right? And then we go to Kuwait and I, I hit like, we got there, it was like the second or third day we were there and I hit three, 15 front squat for the first time ever. I was like, fuck yeah, I had like a two hour leg day and then I went outside and I did sprints in 127 degrees. Like, sprint the straights, run the sides on this track for like, you know, two miles. And then I was like, man, I'm, I think I'm gonna pass out. And I like went and sat under an IDF bunker and I go back to our hooch and I'm like laying there. I've got like, I felt like I had the chills and I was like, I have a fever, like what's going on? And I'm laying there and everyone's going to chow and I was like, hey, can you guys bring back some food? Like, I can't get out of bed right now. And they're like, yeah, sure. I think I'm like, sick or something. And then they come back, I can't eat the food and I just start like pissing and shit and nonstop. And it's like, all night long, fever and chills, get up to go to breakfast and I was like, I need you guys's help, like putting my fucking boots on. Like, I don't know what's going on. I'm like trying to hide it for my team leader. And so we go to chow and I'm like stumbling. Like literally stumbling on into chow. And like, I gotta force myself to eat. I don't wanna eat and I get like the, you know, I get powdered eggs and whatever fucking bullshit on my plate. And I'm sitting there and I literally, I'm like, I'm like, start passing out in the middle of eating my food and my team leader's sitting across me and my boy Cooper and they're like, oh, yeah, like, what the fuck's going on? Like, and I'm like, I need you guys to like, drag me back to the hood so I got something's wrong. I don't know what's wrong. - I love it, it's not the eighth station. - Yeah. - I love to sleep with this on as I sleep in eggs. - We were, yeah. We were going to the field that morning and like, we were going to teach marksmanship skills to the line platoon. And I was like, no, no, I kept saying that too. I was like, no, no, I'm good, I'm good. Like, just get me back to the hood so like, I'll be good. I was like, if you guys can throw my fucking pack on the truck, like, I'll be okay, like, I'll be all right. So I convinced my, I convinced them to let me go out to train and I just, I sat in the back of a truck and I'm just getting worse and worse and worse. Unfortunately, my team leader, his wife, she's an Air Force nurse and she was like, I think he's got rabdo, she's like texting him. Like, we got like, why if I put something like that? I think he's got rabdo. Like, you need to fucking get him to the hospital and she's in, she's in Saudi and we're in Kuwait. And he's, I'm like, literally, in and out of consciousness in the back of the, high looks and he's, my team leader's fucking like, knocks on the window and I look up at him and he's like, you're going to the hospital. And I was like, no, no, I'm okay, I'm okay. And he was like, no, you're going to the fucking hospital. And I was like, all right. And I'm slavering on myself, like eating gummy bears and they take me in, take me to the fucking troop medical center there and they were getting ready to lifeline me in the Kuwait city and I was like, I'm not going into some random city in the Middle East. Like, no, sorry, that's not happening. And this fucking old doc, or this old doctor walks out and he was like, damn, I haven't seen Marines in a while. He was like, last time I was working on you, I was pulling you out of Fallujah and I was like, well, I just hit a 315 front squat yesterday. Like, I was like, going, I'm Tyler, you know? It bragging, as you're drooling, yes. I didn't breathe with you. It was rough. And he was like, they're taking my blood and stuff. He's like, yeah, you've got to have my house. Your kidneys, you're probably a few hours from a kidney's failing. This is like very severe. You're lucky you got brought in when you did. You could have died or gone septic or something. And I was like, oh, yeah, well, that's good. And then they just proceeded to dump fucking leader after a leader after a leader of IV fluid into me. And that was that. And then I go back. And one of our, the boy of our team, Andrew, he bought a mirror. Like, he bought a cheap shitty mirror at the Saudi, you know, I recovered from that. I thought it was the fastest cut of my life. I lost, you know, like, 13 pounds. And I'm just pissing out muscle, right? Like, I lost like 13 pounds in two days. And your piss looks like dark. Like, yeah, when I was going through the Buds Pipeline, my roommate was the class doc. So every, like, every month or every other month, when some new kid come in, he was just like, trying super hard to be a still. And he'd be like, my piss looks like dip spit. Fuck it. - Not good, but a little guy. (laughing) - Yeah, it's bad, yeah. I recovered after like a month or two, but it was a little bit of time off, and we get back, Andrew buys a fucking mirror, so we can all flex in our tent after the gym. And day one, I broke it. Like I knocked it over and it fucking shattered on the floor. And like, you got seven years bad luck and same shit. I was like, I make my own fucking luck, like fuck you guys. Don't tell me, don't tell me about that. And you know, we end up going in in Afghanistan a couple weeks later, but yeah. And so, and they're like, oh, my team there's always like, oh, you remember when you walked through that ladder and you broke that mirror? Like, I think this is what happened. Like, it would happen when you do that, but. - I need to like, yeah. (laughing) - Run, run. - It is luck contagious. (laughing) I'm still a firm believer, I make my own luck, but just some- - I call it stubborn. (laughing) - Brandon, do you need not- - One more time. 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And, you know, I was, we were in Afghanistan, I think the latest someone was there. It was like 12 days from our unit maybe, but we were, I was in Afghanistan. We were all we're for 10 days up until Abigate to the blast. And so kind of crazy to think about, like, yeah, literally 10 days in Afghanistan until, you know, the blast went off and. - That was 10 days around. - Yeah, 10 days, yeah. They, 11 for my assistant team leader, like they sent, we sent, they made a send in one of the guys from our team a day early. And then, yeah, and, and it was good, honestly, because he met up with some rangers and they taught him how to hotwire vehicles. And so we got there, we were just hotwiring vehicles and stealing shit, like dudes were driving around luggage carts, like conveyor belts for planes to fucking take people around and shit. And we hotwired a bobcat and had like a little forklift on the front and shit. And that was like our main mode of transportation. The whole time. - Grand theft off after that. - Yeah, yeah. - This is the wild west, but I mean, it was a blast. - Do it about it. - Oh, sure, yeah. - We, we just had major capers on. - Oh, yeah. - Really? - That's fucking cool. - Bro, wait. So your, your episode's gonna go right after his. - That's awesome. - And his stories, 'cause I mean, you know he's like, - Legend of the fucking. - Bro, some of the best moments, I was like, he's talking to Frank. He's like, well, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, 'cause Frank has problems when I talk about. And then Frank's like, well, I think, well, there's those issues, there's what is a war crime and what isn't, and then what group he's aware of. But you guys seem really good. So yeah, you can tell whatever story you want. And he's like, okay, so I cut the dude's throat. (laughing) So yeah, I pulled my pistol on and shot the two. - What's up? - I was saying thank you. - Yeah, of course. - He's like, oh, we run, I first shot three dudes with the M6, it's like bro, what are these stories? - That's why. - It was how casual he said it, I guess, was very good. - He's proud of him. - He had one of the comments, I think, on the short I saw of him was, this dude gives PTSD. (laughing) - It's such a good dude, too, have you met him yet? - No, no, no, no, no. - I met Don Graves. - Don's beer cans over there? - Oh really? - Yeah, Don's a good guy. - Yeah, I went to, I think last year or early, yeah, it was last year, went to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation Gala and Dallas, I was invited to and he spoke. He actually like fell down on stage, like walking up on a stage to speak. And there were like, people were rushing to help him, he's like, get away from me. He's like, get the fuck away from me. He gets up and he just talks. I mean, you wouldn't know that dude as 100 years old, he just fucking, Sharpen's could be. - I was going to be the energy to, yeah. - So Sharpen, his level, and actually, we're going to be helping them for their trip they're doing to something but unsubs helping pay for that portion of them. - That's awesome. - I was like, what's the number? And they're like, oh, it's this, I was like, yeah, but we got you, that's fine. It's letting those guys go and do their final trips and everything. - I mean, they're just, the numbers are dwindling so fast because that old they are. Primeing pretty soon, a couple of years, there's not going to be any more World War II vets left. - I remember when I was a personal trainer at 24-hour fitness and I remember when I got the, it was reading the news at the last World War I veteran died. - Yeah, totally, shit. - That's wild, you're right. It's going to be that time frame when that happens with World War II, yeah. - It's coming soon, like there's some stat about how many hundreds of World War II veterans are dying every day now. - Oh my gosh. - We've got three on, so three, we're lucky to have three of them on. We won as many as possible. Any of those stories, like Korean War veteran, Vietnam, it's like, let's capture those stories. G-Wat, we're going to be that as sometimes, it's going to be wild. - It's like. - It's crazy thinking about, yeah. - I mean, think about it now. - That was rip, it's worth it. - It's worth it. - I mean, you think about it, it's been 24 years since the start of it already. Like, that's a wow, that's a quarter of a century. - My guys are retiring that I joined with. It's fucking wild to me, they're like, I got my, I was like, man, I joined over 20 years. Like, it's been two decades since I joined the military. - When did you join? - 2005 and got out. - '08. - So you're like, what, 23, 24? - When I was out. - No, you're like 23 or 24 years old now? - Yeah. - Just 23 years old. (laughing) - So you said you went through the Buds Pipeline? - Yeah, yeah. I joined in 2008. - Yeah. - Yeah, I was 20, I was 20, I just turned 20. - Damn. - Yeah, then you were like, I was born in 1998. I was like, oh my god, I'm ancient. (laughing) I could buy cigarettes when you were born. - Holy shit. (laughing) - Doesn't count, the age was lower. - Yeah. - Okay, so I love the tangents we will go on sometimes. (laughing) - So you, this is 10 days. - Yeah. - And then. - Yeah, so we went in, our team was originally tasked with doing some observation missions essentially on the Taliban and whatnot. We flew in and they're like, oh, it's gonna be the, it's gonna be the fucking Alamo, pretty much. And like they're like multiple planes have taken like machine gun and RPG fire coming in and we're coming in on C-130 and we're blacked out going in. And I remember this brand new, there was one dude and our team got attached to us, one of the platoons and this young junior, he was like E2 young fresh junior marine. He'd been in the unit for like two months before we went on deployment. And he's like hyperventilating. He was like, straight up hyperventilating. We're like descending in Afghanistan and we're like, you know, like marine, like so and so. Like, hey, like, hey, like it's okay. It's all right, like it's good. And the rest of us, like we're stoked, you know what I mean? Like we're anxious, but we're excited. I mean, you know, we spent, yeah, we spent fucking 20 years watching, you know, watching the GWT and, you know, wanting to go do the thing in, you know, very. Yeah, yeah, I mean it really just like want to go help people and go kill the bad guy and It was it was like wow, it's finally here. Yeah, exactly It ended up, you know, it was unlike anything. I mean anyone had seen since I gone and I remember we were sitting there we get moved out He ended that that marine. Sorry, let me not skip over that that marine ended up coming down But we're like hey, like it's okay, but he was like verbalizing either he was like I'm so scared like I'm terrified right now And we're like you're all right like we got you like it's okay And he calm down his squad leader calm them down. We descend in and they're like all right you guys got a The fuck off the bird like set up the set up security set up a cordon like you know the The civilian terminal outside of H. Kaya amid cars. I international airport in Kabul had just been overrun the day before So like all of our guys there were the ones on the ground reached the videos of like fucking civilians falling off the planes and Like literally thousands of people running across the runway that was the day before like I got there with my team but our team our assistant team leader and You know 40 other Marines went that day. They went the day before so they were there and they and worked with 82nd Airborne and Rangers and everyone else to fucking physically push thousands of people back off the airfield and Literally re-secure and seize every building on on the airport and then a day. Yeah And it's like yeah, like my buddies were standing there on the runway like when those bodies fucking fell off and Smash the pavement from hundreds of feet in the air and We got there the next day and they're like it's gonna be like you guys are gonna be fighting when you get out pretty much like out of the bird and We get up. We get out of the bird. We set up security and there's this Air Force This airman and his female airman she like walks up to us. She's got her fucking helmet strap to her Chest plate. She's got a clipboard. She's like hi guys. Welcome to Afghanistan And I was like kid the fuck up like to our like our team like get the fuck up like what the fuck is going on right now and She was like yeah, like you're you're your palatized packs are over there and blah blah blah. This is going on I'm like what this is a job. Are you kidding me? Yeah, and so Everyone gets up like we go get our fucking our our palatized gear. We move to a gym And we stage our shit and we're like immediately just fucking trumpet at the bit like Let us go do something like we're in Afghanistan, you know, and they're like yeah, there's nothing You know, we got nothing for you other than like go sit over here set up a high site and like observe the Taliban So we're still like we're jazz like we're pumped like you know, we're we don't care that we're not actively doing stuff, but you know we're searching for targets and suspicious behavior and then You know, we did that for a day or two and we're on this like radar site like right against and if you guys want He like photos or videos. I mean, we all had our phones out there. I have fucking hundreds of videos and photo I was that guy like people like don't take photos. Don't take photos. That's like a military thing I was that guy like I'm gonna take some pictures like I I was like our last team photo that went like Worldwide fucking famous in the Marine Corps in the military like I was like hey you guys you motherfuckers This is the last time we're gonna take this picture like you guys need to stand here and take this picture and They're all gonna be a hard time about it and now it's like a famous fucking photo on the Marine Corps, but so yeah, I was Do you still dismounting is what I love that idea of that hype be especially when you're a new soldier you are going into a Combat zone. Yeah, and then you're getting told that they will hype you up Yeah, you don't under especially when you're brand new your chair. You have no Clue because I thought oh when landing in quiz. Oh, is it like that? Oh, we're landing in Iraq. Oh, is it like that? And then it's slowly you peel that on your back. Oh, okay never mind and you're do you think you're going to like fucking Omaha beach And then Karen walks like hey guys Here here in here. Yeah, there's families playing on said beach We're yeah, I mean, we're literally descending and they're like hey, we're blacking out like previous Plains have taken machine gun RPG fire like be ready and we're like fuck. Yeah, you know, it's your dark 30 whatever and then it was like a joke but Yeah, yeah, Adrenalin does that. It was it was funny, but Yeah, we ended up in that first like they or two that we were doing that first mission had you know observing and reporting My buddy Jorge or team corpsman. He's like a man like I need to take a shit and I'm like, yeah, you know what I need to take a two first shit in Afghanistan and I have a picture of it actually, so if you guys want that to I take a picture of my first shit in Afghanistan It's in between two conics conics containers, but We were but There's a lot of cool time to win exactly. Yeah, dude, there was like Porto shooters that were just like I mean 10 foot almost tall like stacks of shit. Oh, you know What the fuck how do you get it that high like brand is like what do you see these what a what is a job you know Porto Oh, yeah, where the poop is coming through yeah, we've got to be extending on top of the seat to like continue to add to you Yes, you're Hold on to the top I don't want to try you know the crossfit shit right there. Yeah, but we you know the penalty for not holding that hang severe It's a new version of monkey bars. Oh, no. Yeah, we Sorry, I don't know another name Yeah, now so we both we both took our shit and there was just a bunch of shipping containers there and and you know We're opening them up and it was just literally. I mean fucking like you and gear that was left behind like Coalition gear left behind I'll add gear and it was I mean all the ones were right there by that where that first mission was It was all like plate carriers and how much and Tools and shit and Jorge was like hey, there's a Shipping container over here that's got a bunch of tools in it and I was like all right like power tools hand tools Like what and he was like everything. I was like all right. Let me come check it out and he pulls out this like big-ass pair of bolt Cutters like this tall and he was like oh, it's like we could use these and I was like yeah, we'll throw them in the back of the bobcat and he's like Oh, there's another like you know little like 16 inch tall pair and it's like fuck yeah Like I'm gonna put those in my kit. So I kept them the whole the whole time we're out there No kind of make sense later, but We punch out of there and then we're waiting to hear what's going on like hey We're gonna go open up Abby gate the Brits had been cut off the British command was in the barren hotel so you've got like the packs terminal and the flagpole and like the troop medical center like the joint medical center and Then like three or four miles around the airport is where Abby gate is and so there's Abby gate proper and there's Abby gate forward, which is where we were at where Abby gate forward, which is against the canal and like all the way Like into the city essentially. It's like literally like the barren hotel and the city is all right there So like surrounding that person of that gate. It's like two and three story buildings Then the neighborhood of the outskirts of the city and then like that you know going into downtown and shit and The the Brits have been cut off, you know, there's a Taliban checkpoint about a hundred fifty five yards north of our position And you know there's people coming through there, but most of the people are trying to go around the Taliban checkpoint because as much as You know the same with everything like everyone who wasn't there likes to say that things didn't happen and You know the Taliban are executing people right in front of us and we'd report on it and they'd be like nope Don't do anything like unless you know it's an American Like you know that you see American passport in their hand, or you know like they're being actively hurt or shot like doesn't matter if There's someone else like don't do anything like and yeah, I mean I took pictures in videos of Bodies and people being lined up to be executed and reported back on it and dropped it to intel and they're like no I'm like sorry not our problem not like don't worry about it Do you like a mouthful of hardwood? 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As long as they're not fucking with Americans, you literally can't do the same thing. - That's what people, in 10 days, that's a culture shock for you. - 100%, I mean, you know, we spent our time running core careers, like up to that point, you know, thinking like, yeah, we're gonna go on fucking patrols and we're gonna go, I mean, being in a sniper team is a little different. Like, we're gonna go set up height sites, so we're gonna go do this and look for, you know, whatever and report them to the air and shit. Yeah, and then it's like, hey, you guys are gonna deal with the worst humanitarian aid disaster since Vietnam. And I mean, quite literally just fucking hundreds of thousands of people descended on the airport. And they ended up just over a couple days, closing off all of the other gates are on the airport. So the gate that we were at, our team, we were, you know, scouts sniper teams conduct 24/7 continuous operations, so we're in our little two story tower. Like, half the team is on the gun, behind the spotting scope, on the camera, and the other half of us, like maybe one person's catching in like an hour of sleep or two hours of sleep, but everyone else, the other half of the team is down, pulling out refugees and pulling out interpreters and pulling out families and-- - You don't get arrested. - No, yeah, like, you, you know, we're just going back and forth and like, our team corpsman hands up, like, not being, you know, not being able to even be our team corpsman. He ends up triaging all the heat stroke casualties, all the fucking children and women dying of malnutrition. And I mean, the first day we were there, it was literally like thousands, hundreds, if not thousands of people backed up against the gate, and like, we had to open it. And so like, we opened it a little bit, and it's just like, people just trying to pour through. And, you know, the way that I describe it by the end of, those 10 days, like, if I was to fill up this room with sand, like, that's how many people there were. Like, I'll, you know, I'll share the videos with you guys, but literally just people like, fucking like this, holding babies over their heads, like, screaming at the top of their lungs, and like, it's kind of like something that lives with you forever. And everyone who was out there is just like, constant, like, screaming and crying, just like a day in and day out, and especially for our team. Like, everyone else was on like 12 hour rotations at the gate, but like, we eat, slept, and shit, and worked in the same spot. Like, we were in this little fucking tower, or on the ground, like, we were just listening to it 24/7. - What were you guys doing to restrain the crowd? Like, what? - Just Marines down there on the ground at first. - Hands. - Yeah, hands, and like, you know, setting up fucking razor wire, and shit like that. And then, and then even to go into that, yeah. - Did they have a, because at that time, there wasn't even like, T-walls, or, yeah. - There was like short, little concrete walls and shit, but it got, yeah, haescoes? - Yeah, haescoes. - Yeah, no, no, haescoes. So that was that point where like, we're like in, we're like in the city, like, we're literally in the city, so it's almost impossible. - And you can't control. - Yeah, it's like one thing you can't, it's like, oh, just get the mob mindset, there is no control. There's not like, oh, I'll just get this under control. Everyone will calm down. That does not happen. - Yeah, it was just, it was just ramping up. Like, day by day, it was getting worse and worse and worse and like, a lot of it was what was pretty wild is that, we've got, you know, platoons at a time. Like, the company was rotating out, but like, platoons at a time of Marines. So like, 35 to 40 Marines at a time, at the gate, dealing with hundreds to tens of thousands of people. Like literally, like 40 Marines, 40 Marines plus, dealing with tens of thousands of people at a time. And there's only so much you can do. I mean. - And then it's tens of thousands of people you do not know. - Yeah, exactly. - You have the fucking, like, no idea. And they will do as best, they will clack up. Like 90% of those dudes had no, you know, 90% of those people had no reason to be there to escape. They were just desperate or they were, you know, malintent. And, I mean, we saw a lot of that. Like, they, I mean, at one point, like, the ground force commander, it was bad. Like, they, they set up, like, I think, like, three to five shipping containers. The army brought out shipping containers. Like, one of the best things they did, and there's a Taliban checkpoint. They had some barricades and shit, like, right there in the middle of the city, the barren hotel or the bridge where we're over here, front to the left. And then we set up, like, shipping containers so that no vids could come through. So like, then we've got Marines sitting on top of them, filtering people through, but like, the Taliban backed up to, like, right behind it and, you know, processing people through executing them, beating them, hitting them with pipes, like, thinking that we can't see them. We're just not really caring, you know what I mean? Like, they're doing it. We're not doing anything, and we're not able to do anything rather, but the ground force commander, like, allowed the Taliban. He brought them up to the gate. So now you think about this. We've got, I mean, in our battalion, a handful of people that had, like, been there done that, been Afghanistan and Iraq, whatever it was, not most or even many, at that point. But like, you've got dudes that have, like, buddies that were killed by the Taliban or ISIS and shit, like that. And now the ground force commander out there is bringing the Taliban up, literally shoulder to shoulder, beating civilians with sticks right next to Marines and like, let them do it. Like literally just like, let them, let them fucking do it. Like, don't do anything. It's crazy. Most of the individuals aren't going to have any experiences of brand new because-- Exactly, yeah. When I went, we did a military show 2016 for something. And it was wild because I was with army guys. I was with some rangers. I was with, and a bunch of infantry dudes. And there was no one that had a C.I.B. or a combat. And I was like, yo, where's everyone like, do that? We don't get exposed to that. And now you-- so you have that gap. And now as I handle this, you guys are learning on fucking jobs. No, exactly. Because everything up to that point was like, we did one or two mock nios, mock non-combat evacuations in Saudi. So they had all the air force, all the airmen, all the soldiers like come into mock lanes to search, like, very proper, like, very proper, like, set up search lanes and do this. And you guys are in a hide sight. Yeah, you guys are in a hide sight inside a vehicle and do an urban hide shit. And then we get there. And it's like, hey, you guys have no fucking vehicles. You've got no resources. Like, go fucking do your job. And it's 100 times the people, or twice as rabid. Yeah, exactly. And it was-- I mean, it was wild. I keep saying that. But I mean, I don't have better words for it. It's interesting, especially-- and this is, I think, the only thing I'll say on this. But it's interesting talking about this. Every time I-- my buddy, I don't know if you guys know Justin Governell at all. But yeah, we know, but-- Yeah, he ended up picking me up there for-- He ended up picking me up there for-- He ended up picking me up from the airport yesterday and dropping me off at the hotel. But he was talking. I was telling him, I was like, man, I was like, it's tough. Because I've shared this story a few times, and in different ways, but it's still the story. And it's always like, man, do people-- think I'm like a fucking, you know, just like-- this guy's always talking about this shit. And I'm like, the imposter syndrome kind of creeps in a little bit. And I'm like, you know what, fuck that shit, man. No one's-- not that people aren't, but like, you know, people aren't talking about this shit. The Marine Corps, as much as I love the Marine Corps, I'll say it to this day, enlisting the Marine Corps is still to this day the greatest issues I've ever made in my entire life. It's shaming who I am. It's giving me the best people that I love whether directly or indirectly in my life. And, you know, it's made me the man that I'm proud of. But, man, they still won't even talk about this shit. Like, they won't bring it up. Like, they want nothing to do with it. And just the story that needs to get told? Yeah. And it's unfortunate, but like, we still have zero accountability for what's happened. I mean, 13 Americans were murdered. We knew it was going to happen. And, you know, I'm like, you know what? At the very least, like, I mean, like, if I was fucking dead, and I was buried in Arlington, like, some of our brothers and sisters are, like, I would hope that, you know, someone who was alive would fucking tell the truth about what happened. And, you know, I've lucky enough, unfortunate enough to have a platform and to be able to do that. And you guys are doing that for me as well. And for them, so I'm grateful for it very much so. And it's tough, man, like, you know. It is a travesty and stupid, and then to downplay it. Or do you say, oh, we did what we can. We had so much precision in this withdrawal. We try to best. It's been in the works for X amount of time, or shift blame. Instead of being like, there, there wasn't even fucking barriers. T walls, there was a million things you could do. That was done for 20 years leading up to this point. You lived out in a cob in a sector. I lived in a cob. There was no fucking running water. And we had ditches built around our cob, a hundred meters out. We had constant teen wire. And then we had T walls, 100 meters from our little church we lived at. That was out in the sector of Iraq. And then it's like, oh, hey, let's not do the same. But then let's not, no accountability for how we fuck this up. And just like, and logistically, we knew this was coming. Yeah, well, that's well in advance. Exactly. Well, that's 100% it. Like they were our, our kernel of the SMAG task for months was like our so sniper teams are a tiny level assets. So like we get word from the fucking top. And we're dealing, you know, with our commanders and stuff. And he's like, hey, like I'm trying to send you guys, but like they won't let the Marine Corps go. Like the administration will not let the Marine Corps go. And then we get sent in the last minute. But, you know, to your point, it's like, even that, like the, the Intel, what we were past, we knew what was going to happen. We were past that the bomber was going to be there on that day, on the 26th, the morning of. They're like, "Hey, he's going to be here sometimes a day. He's traveling with so-and-so. This is what they're wearing. This is what they look like being in the lookout. We pass up a PID. We get denied permission on our PID and who we believe to be the bomber and who he's traveling with disappear into a crowd of literally hundreds of thousands of people. And we're passing it up. We had multiple instances that day. We had multiple ID probes and the days leading up to it. We had been shot at in our tower and the days leading up to it like two days prior. And maybe even in the morning of like we had been shot at one of our buddies was up in the tower and I'm climbing up the ladder and like our first sergeant was up there and I hear fucking crack. And I like climb up the tower and I'm like, "Yo, and I see my buddy slam in the window shot." And I'm a picture of it and videos of it too. Like literally fucking 762 around impacted. He's leaned his head against the tower window and he's literally like looking through the fucking camera, looking through the spotting scope and around impacts where his head is. And the window's open. Like it's a sliding window so it's open right here, but it was bulletproof glass. So he slams it shut and we're like, "We're not fucking opening that window again." And it's just like two and three story buildings. You pass it up and you're like, "Yeah, guys, sorry. Like, don't worry about it." You know. And you can't. We're like, "Hey. Can we push a. Squads out into the neighborhood? Like can we do this? We've got more standoff distance. And like, as the days got closer to the 26, they closed the distance. The standoff distance goes from, you know, 15 meters, 25 meters to like, now the crowd is right there at the base of the gate, right at the base of our tower. Why the fuck did they do that? Just for. We're at 300 meters. 300 meters. Even if we're on a fucking patrol or if we're on a convoy, we still had, "Hey, if you cross this 100 meter line, you will get lit the fuck up." And that. They intentionally closed it though? Yeah. So the. 15 meters. 15 meters from the base. I had this shit explained. And so once I, even that, it got right, it was right on top of us at that point. And that's what I'm saying. Yeah, and so. Fucking wild. They explained to us that this was years past, like, after I testified in front of Congress, and then they didn't want to call it reopening the investigation, but they did a supplemental review as what they called it. They did a supplemental review. So the government's like, "Hey, we investigate ourselves. We found ourselves not guilty again. So don't worry about it." Yeah. And they came in and they said they're like, "Hey, so all these hundreds of photos, like, all these things that happened, I was like, you know, we asked, like, "Hey, where did all the photos of X, Y, and Z go, like the bomber who is traveling with the bodies, all these things are like, "Oh, those photos, those videos, they don't exist anywhere inside of the DODs or any allied nation's intelligence database. They're gone. We can't find them. We don't know what happened to them." I was like, "Wow, that's really convenient." That's the one before. Yeah. Crazy. I think I said that shit too. It's like, I'm not the first person to get blown up. We're not the first people to lose friends. This shit has, it's just a cycle, unfortunately, and it's like, it's war, right? Like, we go to foreign countries and war for good and bad reasons. A lot more bad than good, maybe, whatever you believe in. But I know I've helped people. All of us help people. We saved 140,000, 135,000 fucking Afghans that, you know, we worked with families. We used kids that have an opportunity of life that they never would have had otherwise. They're in our country. Some of them, yes, there's that side of it. It's like, some of them, probably not for the best reasons, but we've given people an opportunity of life that they never would have had otherwise. And even if it was for a day, a year, 10 years, they had an opportunity to read, write, get an education, learn, it's something that they never would have had the opportunity to otherwise. And people in culture that have only known suffering, but, yeah, I mean, to, yeah, I was a long-winded, still not answering your question, but they closed the dispersion down to say, hey, you know, the reasoning multiple years later after everything happened, they're like, oh, they closed the dispersion, because if an ID went off down here, people got shot at down here in the canal. We didn't want them to have to drag casualties farther, right? Well, it's not our fucking problem. It's a wall, like, there's a wall here. I mean, we've got combat engineers, we've got X, Y, and Z, we can't put a ladder, we can't put a fucking bridge, we can't do something, we can't knock down a wall to make it so that's not the case. Like, that's just another, you know, you spent fucking three years thinking about how to answer the question and I could poke a hole through it in 10 minutes, like, that's bullshit. But when we got hit out in sector, it is you're doing everything. You're pulling a gaudier, it's like, when that striker blew up, it's like fucking, okay, we don't have a Medevac striker, we're pulling gaudier, he's going on the next striker. They're driving back to base and they're just hauling ass with a couple other strikers. We're up top now and then we're securing the vehicle. But guess what? We're not going to be like, well, hey, this one thing happened way out here and now we have to move everything and change everything to make sure everyone's safe just in case, because you, as you said, it's like now thousands, tens of thousands of people right at the wall and you have this the most terrifying thing, especially when, hey, we have a bomb, we have a V-bit. Advanced. It's the knowledge of it. Yeah, exactly. Well, and that's, that's it. Exactly. Like, they're like, oh, well, the DoD, right, they're like, there's nothing that we could have done. Bad. Oh, dude. Like, was it say the line? Oh, he was on our radar. Yeah. And then you got John Kirby at the time, you know, fucking state department, like, you, and I quote, he was like, the, like regard in regards to Afghanistan withdrawal and the plot, he was like, I didn't see any chaos from my perch. Those are words that came out of his mouth and you didn't see any cast from your perch. Like, all right. You do. But I was going to say, it's like, no, I just, I was just like, what the fuck? Yeah. It's just people, just, I mean, delusional quite literally, but look at, look at Clint Ramache. Look at you had a big shout out to Secretary of the army, uh, uh, General George. Yeah. Like, Randy has been amazing, but that is proper leadership. That dude, he was the one that called out, he's like, why the fuck are we in this bowl? And it was everyone around. He was like, well, you know, we need that. It's like, no, we're in a bowl. This is not a great place. And then, oh, holy shit, look, what happened, because of that. And you had one. Is that Cobb Keating? Or, uh, yeah, yeah. And General George was against that place. He was like the first one to like raise the tension and they tried to push back because of it. It was like, that Cobb Keating is a case study. At least it was when I went through the Advanced Aventory course, like, it's a case study on like, don't fucking do this. Like, literally, just like, do not fucking do this. Sun shoe. It's a bridge about this. Two thousand years ago, and you have that. And then when a good general, thank God, he is in the position he is. And now it, like, he was trying to bring light. This is fucking stupid. And then everyone else, the bad leadership that failed forward, no, we need that. Oh, yes. Sun zoo. Always put your base in an ambushable hole from 360 to the end. Great fighting area. I do. Make sure Sun blind you every which way. I too have read the art of war. The brown man. But no. I actually met, I went on a black bear hunt. This is all light in the mood for a second. I mean, get back to not light, but I went freedom hunters as incredible organization on if you guys ever heard of it. But Army veteran just, he came back, had a lot of friends lose his, their, lose their lives up more. And he's like, I want to take vets hunting and shooting and stuff. And I went on a black bear hunt in British Columbia last year with one of the guys from my sniper team with them. And it was like six other American vets and two Canadian snipers and their, their vets as well. But I'm just like sitting there and there's just like older dude. He's like, he's got a little weight on him, nice, complete goofball. And then all of a sudden just comes up, he was like, yeah, I was dropping off and blah, blah, blah, over a cop keeding out of fucking 160th soren. I was like, what the hell is with like? Alright, and, and then we're fucking putting now black bears together, but yeah, it was cool. It was just like, I'd never met anyone from, from that like, yeah, he was like, yeah, we're just dropping shit off the side of little birds and shooting with MP5s out of the, a little bird. Yeah, damn, dude, alright, I didn't know he had it like that, but yeah, I was judging you first. Yeah, I was unfamiliar with your game, yeah, you're going to have some Army vets with you guys. Cool, we'll stay over here, but fuck, oh man, it was cool, but yeah, now we kind of wrap it up on that. We, the 26th pops up and, you know, we've got that situation we got intel on, you know, who's going to be there? Who's at the gate? Like, everyone, all of it, we disseminated all the information down to the, you know, ground level, like, hey, like, there's a super bar in the area, this is going on. We had multiple times throughout the day where it would be like, stopped and like, fucking dudes took a knee, got behind cover and like, hey, ID's going to go off. And then they're like, alright, yep, no, don't worry about it, like go back to business. And so then we'd go and we'd start pulling our refugees and shit. And at this point now, like, globally, it's been broadcasted. Hey, Abbie Gate forward, Abbie Gate is the only gate that's open, like, they're allowing media at the gate. They're allowing a lot of people to either at the fucking gate like posting social media and stuff and like it was crazy like our tertiary comm like communication fucking plan was like we were literally using signal on our phones like we were talking to people on Instagram snapchat whatever it is through signal to like pull out refugees like hey and I'm with so and so and I pulled like I worked with this interpreter in his family back in 2010 like they're gonna be here on this day like can you pull them out we're like yeah of course and throughout those days I mean I can't say enough but like the praise that I give to the Marines airmen the sailors the soldiers that were out there and the brits even like the brits were awesome it was just like I mean we had we set up razor wire and then you'd have women that we'd have to literally like state department be like hey you guys need to fucking walk this family of four and these children back out towards the Taliban and like go fuck send them on their way like they don't have proper documentation so here we are and you've got fucking women just like clawing and kids screaming and crying in your fucking arms like literally handing them yeah literally and like and then like we had women and like women like babies getting thrown over the walls and impacting the ground and being killed on impact because people are so desperate for freedom that they're and getting away from tyranny and that's what people never understand like it's easy to preach your fucking oppress from a free country but you can't preach your oppress from an oppressed country you'll be murdered tortured whatever it may be like Americans most Americans will never truly understand the freedom that they have to bitch moan and complain about the things that they do and I and brother and Christ that is one of the biggest statements you can say and I don't think enough people appreciate what we have here because you've seen you've seen the ugly side of man and I think unfortunately I do believe more people need to see that and experience it because you will appreciate everything we have here well and that's and that's the that's a luxury being American like I like I know by no means believe that you need to put on a uniform to serve your country you can serve your country and community in a million different ways outside of military service or outside of being a police officer outside of being a firefighter you can do it in countless ways and it's you know it's it's necessary like people you know I think we're definitely we all see it we're at a turning point for sure but it's uh yeah I mean you have to work for the life that we have and people want the life that we have I mean like I got to see that in 2021 we all did but we literally had women we were sending like families kids we were sending back out directly to the Taliban because state departments like you can't they're not vetted they can't come through whatever it is that on a proper documentation and then women fucking jump on the razor wire and they're trying to slit their throats with razor wire like please or they're like grabbing the muzzle of your rifle like please kill me like please kill me fucking soldier please kill me marine like what you're like you executing me here will be like like literally like saying this like screaming like please it kill me here so that I don't have to go get tortured by the Taliban like please it'll be a gift like this is a mercy shit like that and uh it was constant like come like constant every fucking time and the college college girls on tiktok told me it's a great place to visit I know yeah uh uh it's uh we're the bad guys yeah we all right so I on the 26th um it's around you know five to six p.m. and uh stab swords and daren Taylor Hoover I'm on I'm on the gun I'm on the sass you know observing down towards the Taliban checkpoint and got one of my other buddies up there observing the rest of the crowd and uh there's like the ladder well so we're on the second store and there's a ladder well right down here to my right and he's like hey snipes like you up there and I'm like yeah man what's up and he's like hey there's an interpreter down here half our team was on a resupply back uh farther in the base and uh we were you know we're on you know shooter spotter pair up there and and we were waiting for a specific interpreter in his family to come through and uh my my assistant team leader uh Dalton was like we had a conversation and I was like hey like all fucking keep a lookout for these guys and go get him if they come through and Hoover's like hey there's a there's a guide on here with a sign and it says like a bunch of random shit but like we told him like hey if you know like anyone that comes through like hold up a sign right xyz code or letters or whatever on it to come through and so we'll pull you with like high-powered optics we can spot him the crowd and whatnot and so um Justin Governell said yeah I want my circumstances how do you get here Justin dude that shit kills me he said oh my god he's in he's in fucking Afghanistan come to my comedy show what are you doing oh shit yeah we oh my gosh I'm glad you're like this is weird to me oh it's it's so funny yeah this is a different way to do yeah it's so funny uh we so we uh no it's that's nice like I was saying we uh like I went on Zach's you know podcast and and now it's nice to actually be around some funny people so I fucking that Kalazo Kalazo texted me he's like hey make sure uh Tyler bully Zach now I was waiting for you know I got more I'm saying but uh yeah no I love uh but yeah so we I go down there uh he's like hey we got so and so with the sign down here I'm like hey yeah like I got it and my buddy uh we had one of our other guys and our team come up take over on the gun uh and obz and I go down with Hoover I got my rifle uh we walk out and we're talking he's like one of the only dudes in the battalion that like had been there and done that you know once or twice before in Afghanistan and I'm talking to him and he's like man this is fucking crazy and you know he's a staff sergeant and I'm like yeah like this is crazy and he's like this is unlike anything I've ever done before overseas and I'm like this is the only thing I've done and uh yeah this is fucking wild and so uh we walk out you know 50 to 70 yards out past this chain link fence walk into the canal and it's like 10 to 12 feet of dirt little knee high canal wall and then the canal itself and then another little two foot high canal wall 10 to 12 feet of dirt and all the neighborhoods right here and so um at that point it had built up so much that it's literally tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people like people that canal we say canal but it's just we call this canal it's just sewage it's just filled with sewage and it was completely like nut to butt filled with people trying to climb out of it to get over to us and then it's filled up all the way to this side of the fence and wall and all the way to this side and so I pull out I pull out this interpreter I pull out his brother and he's like I you know we do a little he's he search on him uh and I see the sign that's got like Dalton's name on it like two slash one and they were worse stay so STA Scott sniper platoons teams that surveillance target acquisition and he wrote like two slash one recon on it or something you know it's like not what we were but it's kind of funny I was like oh yeah this is cool fold it up put my pocket I'm like I'll give this to Dalton later and uh I'm like I'm gonna take you guys over to the like main search area uh and he's like wait wait like my family my family and I was like yeah like your brother's right here and he's like no no no and he pulls out American passports and I'm like like four or five more of them like holy fuck like he's got like a wife and kids and he's like my wife and kids are like down in the canal and I'm like dude like you were told to like be here at this time with your whole family because like at that point the gate was already supposed to be closed we knew the threat was in the area and and my head I'm like there's no way his family is getting through like he's like yeah they're down in the fucking canal that way and uh I'm like alright I'll stay down here in the canal with you for you know 20 or 30 minutes but then I need to get back to what I was doing I'll make sure another marine is aware of what's going on so he can help you out and keep an eye out for your family so I grabbed him or his brother I remember which and I put him up like on to the canal wall and I'm standing against the canal wall like 10 minutes goes by and just flash flash bang and I get fucking bitch slap by the hand of God just like massive waiver pressure hits me and you know I guys explain the amount of people there it was fucking just instantly fucking 200 people killed instantly dude stepped out two to three meters away uh directly in front of us uh stepped out of a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people and uh detonated uh what they say is equivalent to 20 to 30 pounds of C4 steel back plate C4 20 to 30 pounds of C4 and then like hundreds of steel ball bearing so he made himself a human directional charge human claim more essentially and from two to three meters away detonated and directed it right at all of us in our tower and so like we've got the two windows open in the tower our dues in the tower get blasted off the gun um like there's like brain matter covering the sat like the press of our sass and shit like they couldn't even clean it off um like it literally just like fuse to the gun and uh I I didn't find this out to like maybe like a year or two ago like yeah I probably two years ago but a buddy of mine who was windy shared with me that actually like before I like open my eyes and started fucking doing the thing uh one of the Marines when the blast went off like multiple Marines got hit with CS there's CS gas against her grenades got an exploded on all of us yeah exactly spicy air and mades I did not know that yeah and so a lot of people thought it was a fucking dirty bomb right like initially and like right when the blast went off the other half of our team had just pulled up and they were behind the tower so like everyone behind the tower got hit with the over pressure and the blast and shit uh just not like shrapnel and so they get rocked and over pressures of the bad shit dude it's it is the bad shit because it fries your brain fries your organ tbi friday's through friday and monday like good shirt it's yeah He was right there, right? - Shameless corn? - Little shame, but not much. - Yeah, yeah, I'm proud of that one. - It was crying, they're buying stuff, they're crying. - Yeah, no, so Blasco's off and like, the other half of our team, they run to the tower, they know like Dolan's job's fucking consolidate, like Personnel, like he's in charge of Personnel, Chaz's in charge of dealing with, you know, everything else, and they go to the tower and they're like, okay, we got U5, where the fuck's Jorge and where's Tyler? And Jorge, our team Cormin, he was walking out to meet me. So he walks out and he's on the other side of the chain link fence, just on the other side of it. Blasco's off, he gets hit by all the overpressure, no shrapnel, so he gets knocked on his ass. He gets up, Marines are on fire and shit, like literally like quite literally on fire, and he's just like, medic mode, right? Like Cormin mode, fucking just pat and dudes out, throwing turn to get solid, triage and casualties, left and right, and they find Jorge, and then Adam, one of my buddies in the tower, like I remember, like as I'm like leaning up, and I knew right away, it's literally like, same private Ryan, like I knew right away, I was like, right here, right here, drum got ripped to pieces, fucking just like super high pitch ringing, like, and like left ears muffled, and I can just hear people screaming everywhere, and I'm like, as I'm trying to open my eyes and struggling to open them through the CS, and like taking a blast to my eyeballs, I'm like, holy, I wasn't wearing any eye pro either, no, I pro no, your pro was most of us weren't, but, yeah, no, it did, yeah, they're fucking damn, we'll get NJP'd again, yeah, what a motherfucker, that would be, you're back, we're bringing you back in to core martial you, yeah, no, and so I'm like, holy fuck, I knew right away, I was like, I just got blown up, but right before I was like, open my eyes, someone came over and my whole plate here was on fire, so they like padded out the fire, and literally, like, I guess I was unconscious at the time, and he's like, yeah, he's dead and fucking ran away, like to someone else to go triathlon to the casualty, and so I'm like, open, trying to open my eyes, I'm trying to come to, and I'm like, literally trying to sit up and like, outstretching my hand, just like, holy fuck, and it was such a weird feeling, like that whole, the adrenaline hits you, and you like, everything just fucking slows down, like I feel like I was on the ground for hour, two hours, and it was like minutes, like literally, everything fucking slows down, I'm in your brains just super, just like firing every nerve endings, firing on all cylinders, and I'm like, holy fuck, I was in disbelief at first, I didn't feel any pain initially, like right when it happened, I was just like, holy fuck, like I just got blown up, and I'm like, trying to sit up, and I'm like, I can't stand up, I can't sit up, I'm like, putting my hand out, and I can see in the tower, like Adam, he's directing our team leader to me, and I'm like, holy fuck, and like my whole stomach got ripped open, I lost my left kidney, left testicle exploded, I lost 140 to 157 centimeters, a large and small intestine, 2/3 of my traversed colon, I took 150 ball bearings into my body, nothing hit my face, so I'm like, 150 ball bearings here. - Yeah, what size were like the ball bearings? Ooh, so I'm trying to give you a good reference point. Like, maybe, you got that little cap right there, so like, I would say, like the tip, like that circle, that size, and just a little bit bigger, like, - Just like slightly bigger than like a BB gun. - Yeah, I don't know, I was trying to think about it. - I always compared it to that. - Yeah, they're like, I mean, I can't make a perfect circle, but like that big, probably, like, like, about that big small-- - They're like skate ball, like skate ball, skate, like bearings, like a little bit bigger than like skate bearings. - Yeah, they're a little bit bigger than this. - But yeah, it took 150, so everything, I took three or four, like, into my kevlar, like into my helmet, nothing hit my face, so I'm still pretty, or lie to me, please. But, and then everything else hit me for my shoulders down to my thighs pretty much. - So, how much did your body armor? - A ton, so my rifle, my M4A1 was fucking, like, so through the fucking steel and aluminum, like, just straight through it, multiple into the, like, through the RCO, ripped it apart, and then the soft arm and the plate carriers, like, stopped everything that hit my chest, like, completely stopped everything that hit my chest, same with the helmet. - That's what, therefore, people don't realize it's like, - Yeah. - It's here to protect right here, 'cause you need right here to live. - 100%, yeah, like, both my lungs were fine, but my liver, spleen, bladder, liver also, bladder, yeah, everything was lacerated and punctured. My, you know, I took ball bearings through my wrist, through my fucking, into my shoulder, you can see that whole scar, so that scar goes from the palm of my hand all the way up my forearm, through my bicep and into my chest, and so that, that was later, like, I had compartment syndromes, so they had to manually release all the pressure. My arm blew up, like, bigger than the size of my leg, and all the muscles and tendons were ripping off, but my right arm was blasted. My whole stomach got literally ripped open, bigger than a softball-sized hole, like, straight to my organs, and I, like, I'm just trying to sit up, and I'm completely bleeding out, like, from everywhere, and I'm like, like, holy fuck, like, I can't, like, really, just like, in disbelief, I can't believe this happened, and I'm like, trying to get up, trying to crawl, can't, can't move, and I'm literally, I'm going unconscious, like, losing consciousness, and we start getting shot at from the neighborhood, and farther down the canal, and, like, one of my buddies fucking got shot. He, like, got blown up, got stood up, and they got shot through the shoulder, and shot a gunman off the roof. And, yeah, and so it was ISIS-K that blew us up, but multiple Marines responded accordingly to the gunfire, and then, I mean, everyone was just dragging cows to his triageing, and I'm bleeding out, I'm going unconscious, and I remember, like, literally laying on the ground, and it was, like, almost peaceful, it was weird. I wasn't, like, scared, I was honestly in disbelief. I had that whole, like, your life flashed before your eyes, like, I had that, like, man, I've lived a good life, like, laying there on the ground, like, I couldn't fucking move, and I was just, like, you know what, I've fucking done my best, and, like, I thought that lay on the ground, and still, like, wasn't there any pain at first? Couldn't move anymore. I knew I was fucked up, 'cause I was trying to crawl, and I was, like, kind of falling into my arm, and I was like, man, why is my arm not working? And, like, look, I'm like, oh, that's why it's not working, and it was just, like, very matter of fact. Like, it was there, but it was fucked up, really bad. And, I was like, oh, that's why it's not working, and so then I tried to fucking crawl on my left side on my elbow, and I've got ballbranks, or my wrists, or my handshitting, and then I just couldn't move anymore, 'cause I had so much trauma to my body, and I'm going unconscious, like, I'm literally feeling my life, like, dying, and I'm losing consciousness, and I know I'm like, damn, like, I'm gonna die here in the dirt in Afghanistan. I was like, but, you know, I've lived a good life, and I start going unconscious, and I'm just like, damn, like, literally just thinking, like, in disbelief, and I just hear Chaz, my team leader, he's fucking screaming my name, he's like, Tyler, Tyler, and he like, as he was in the tower, consolidating everyone, and trying to figure out where everyone was at, he was like, give me Tyler's bolt cutters, the ones that we took, like, early on, out of that shipping container, and he grabbed my fucking bolt cutters, and he just sprinted out there for me, cut a hole up in the fence that cut off the casualty carrying distance by, like, 100 yards, which is significant when fucking seconds matter, and he's screaming, like, running down the chainling fence, and I can hear him yelling my name, and like, it was just like, all the life breathed back in my body, and I was just like, holy fuck, like, I'm not gonna die here. Like, Chaz is gonna get to me, like, holy fuck, but in that moment, like, all the pain is like, my body fucking recognized what actually happened, and all the pain hit me, and I was like, holy fuck, please, give me, like, I was in so much pain, like, more pain than I could ever possibly, like, even comprehend still, and like, explain, but I wasn't so much pain all over, stomachs ripped open, everything was fucking ripped open, and I was just like, holy fuck, like, like, not let me die, I was like, literally thinking I remember, I was like, please, just fucking, like, holy fuck, and I'm, you know, yelling, screaming, slaubing on myself, Chaz gets to me, they're putting that whole, like, nugget drill, like, you're a boot, and they put, and turn the kids on all your limbs, and make your body fucking carry around, like, that wasn't me, they put, turn the kids on my limbs, they're like, how the fuck are we gonna move this guy? Like, his stomach's ripped open, his guts are hanging out, and so, my buddy, Silas, ran and grabbed the, right shield, that one of the blasts went off, like, one of the brits left, and he grabbed the right shield, and they literally threw me on the right shield, and like, four fucking, six of them carried me out on the right shield, right back down the tower, they got there, I don't remember being carried from the X to, behind the tower, but I remember, like, in and out, I'm like, going to the last stage as a shock right behind the tower, and Jorge gets to me, 'cause he's like, after he's triaging everyone, he's like, oh fuck, like, I was going out there to meet Tyler, like, in the canal, he gets to me, and I remember seeing him, and I don't remember if I said it, or if I was like, just thought it, but I was like, Jorge is a Korman, like, Jorge's a doc, like, he has fucking drugs, and I'm like, Jorge, give me fucking drugs, like, give me fucking drugs, and I remember trying to, like, reach for him, and he's like, he's like, lay the fuck down, Tyler, like, he's like, lay the fuck down, I'm like, sitting up, they're cutting over my pants, chasin, my buddy Emmett, they're cutting over my pants, and I'm like, trying to sit up, and I'm like, I need to see my, I need to see my, and they're like, you're just fine, I'm like, okay, and fucking, and then, like, I was out, I guess, I was out, and chas, like, cuts over my pants, and he, like, he says, he's like, nice, Tyler, he's like, nice, yeah, and so, you know, that happens, and Jorge is fucking slapping me awake with the whole, you know, keep him awake, 'cause that's what was happening, like, I was dying, and then, chastro my name, fucking. And like, it was like, oh, like I need to live. And so Jorge slapped my face and he's getting ready to push fucking drugs and they're like, no, like he's dead. I'm like, in the last ages of shock, like going in and out of consciousness and they're putting chest tubes in me on the ground and the MO, the medical officer's like, we have to move him, like don't fucking push medicine. Like we have to move him, like he's going to die. Like he is dying. And so they move me, they stop at the shock trauma platoon. They stabilize me for just enough few minutes to get me over to the roll two, to the hospital. And then my surgeon operated on me for 13 to 14 hours straight from there on. And over 48 hours, like he was the one he like fucking ringing ball bearings out of my intestines and sh*tting over 48 hours. I had 58 liters of blood transfused. I didn't die there, I was soda. Yeah, they got, they got them too. That's good. Thank you, we love them. Americans will use anything but the metric system. Dude, when could they actually put in pain killers? 'Cause a lot of people, we had-- It was Braxton got, the S-Vess with Braxton. He had to wait 45 minutes and he like got-- It was a while. Yeah, I was like-- You were the same, you know? Yeah, like my buddy from the gate, to the hospital and when I got to the hospital, they put me on the ground, you know what I mean? There's just bodies, like lines of f*cking bodies. And to state this plainly, like that killed 200 people, 13 Americans, most importantly, 11 Marines, one soldier and one sailor, who will never be forgotten. But there was about 45 wounded total and like, I think seven or eight of us that were like critically wounded. Yeah, so I got to the roll two, I laid on the ground and Deacon Page, who was killed in action, Corporal Deacon Page, my foot was lying on top of his shoulders. You know, we're all like literally just 100 f*cking bodies on the ground as they're trying to pull them into the OR and work on them and sh*t. And they-- he was checked on. He was-- he was dead, he had passed. And my foot was lying on his shoulder. And so, you know, my surgeon went to me and he started operating on me and he started looking at me and he was like, holy f*cking, like, he is still alive. Like, and he's still breathing on his own. Like, how the f*ck is he alive? And what I was told is that, I think it's the Army's International-- it's like the International Survival-- Survivability Scale. And out of the, like, 150 plus wounds injuries that I had, I had 60 that were deemed non-survivable according to the Army's measurement of, like, do we push medicine? Do we give blood? Do we do any interventions to try and save his life? Every, like, 60 of them were, like, no, do not do it. And my surgeon was like, I have to do this. I don't know why, you know, if someone's telling me. And according to him, according to every single medical provider in my line of care, nurses to doctors to 45 surgeries later, they were, like, the only-- outside of my friends and him and everyone operating on me, the only reason that I survived the point of injury, the point of blast was because of how physically fit I was at the point of injury. It was 210 pounds lean and had been training for what I thought was going to be a career in special operations. And, you know, it ended up being to prepare me for the worst day of my life, you know. And that whole-- you can never train too hard for a job that can kill you. Like, I always said that shit. I instilled it in my junior Marines. I instilled it in my dudes in Duplatoon. And, you know, I'm proud to say that I lived that, honestly. And, you know, it was-- it's crazy to think about. But, yeah, like, there's no way-- I even got to Walter Reed. I'd have, like, 30 to 50 doctors and nurses and medical providers a day in my room at an ICU and shit, because they had not seen an injury this severe-- like, injuries this severe for, like, 10 plus years. They were, like, what the fuck? How is this guy alive? And then, like-- Pretty cool tagline for you, though. Too fit to die. Yeah. Dude, it's-- It's not. It's a-- That's his gender profile. Yeah, I got. So I get to-- they find me from Kabul with a Germany. And in Germany, I died two or three times. They flew my mom out. The DOD called my mom, and they're like, hey, there's been a complex attack, blah, blah, blah. My little brother was actually, like, getting ready for school the morning of. And it was like, hey, mom, isn't that where it ties at? And they saw the blast, but they hadn't heard anything. So then, by the end of the day, they had called her and let her know. But they just kept saying, like, always critically ill, whatever could have been wounded. And a lot of-- people have died. People have been wounded, a complex attack. They were shot out. They were blown up, whatever. And then the DOD tried to retract that statement months years later. But they told her, like, hey, don't fly to Germany. They tried to-- They tried to-- Yeah, they tried to retract that state. Yeah, they told everyone who was wounded and killed in action, all their families, the truth that there had been a complex attack that we'd been shot at and blown up. And then they tried to-- they retracted that statement. They're like, no, this didn't happen. And even though the doctors, doctors notes on multiple friends, multiple Marines, who had been shot with 762, like, they're in their paperwork, in their fucking EAS, like, everything, all this stuff they got when the EAS, all their medical paperwork. Like, it says, like, ball bearings here, gunshot wounds here. When you said your buddy shot a dude that was shooting at you guys. Yeah. Yeah, the wounded warrior battalion on the-- Walter Reed is a weird time for me, because I was the only person there, one that was not just my age. There were people my age and younger and most older. But I was the only one at Walter Reed there at that time. Everyone had left Walter Reed within two to three weeks. I was still in ICU for two, two and a half months. And then I was an inpatient for another two months or whatever it was. But when I got out and was doing PT and OT, I was the only one there that was my age that had been combat wounded. Neither here nor there. But it was different time. Like, other dudes had been through. And there'd be, like, 10, 20, 30, 40 people at a time that were wounded in the war. And my buddies that were wounded, that went over to-- that were still in and went over to the wounded warrior regiment on the West Coast. They were getting out. And they were being told, like, don't fucking talk about this. Like, don't say this. Happen this way. Or you're going to lose your benefits. Oh, fuck off. They're threatening with-- Yeah, they're threatening with-- Fuck off benefits. Yeah. Like, it was-- it was bad. It's still bad. Like, I mean, it's not been answered for. No one's been held fucking accountable. And that's the thing. Like, it's one of those. The whole situation. It's decades and decades of poor action and inaction that led to this point. But even then, like, in a moment where, like, we had intel on what we knew was going to happen. And then it did happen. And then people are like, oh, no. Like, no, we didn't know that. But every single person serving there in that time knew that, whether it was fucking three-letter agencies down to the fucking dude on the ground. You're going to tell me that that's not what happened. I mean-- It's private snowing. Yeah. What fucking is going on? And what information's been disseminated across? I mean, it's like, we didn't do that. I mean, you look at, who is the football player? Oh, Pat Salman. Pat Salman. Tomin, like, all that. And it took the family pushing. And still, it took fucking forever to admit what actually happened. Yeah. And that's what's wild about it. It's like, why cover shit up? These people are sacrificed. Like, the women and men are sacrificed-- they've sacrificed their lives for this. And the least you can do is-- That's what I wanted. Because the truth is politically inconvenient. Yep. It absolutely is. And that's the thing is it's like-- I said this earlier, when we started, it's a war-fighting organization, right? We know people are going to die. We know people are going to get hurt. We know people are going to fucking be severely hurt physically and mentally. But if we don't learn from the things that happen, then how are we going to get better? How are we going to get stronger? How are we going to get more lethal? Yeah, that's the fucking reality of war. You should learn from the mistakes. And we're sitting there in our tower. Like, you know, the administration goes on. And it's like, we'll never see Chinooks take politicians off and embassy again, like, inside gone. And then-- same fucking day or the next day, we watch Chinooks land on the fucking embassy in Afghanistan and pull politicians out. It's like the same fucking Chinook. I don't know if it was, but it looked the exact same. I couldn't tell if that was real or not. Somebody said it was literally the same fucking. I mean, I believe it. Yeah, I mean, it's unfortunate, man. It's-- it's a lot-- I mean, like, it's the one thing. I don't-- I hate-- like, politics-- getting political, anything. But that is one thing where you know, now it's like-- Those fans-- If you government the military, you get to see the shit inside of that. They don't give a fuck about you in the VA. And you're like, yo, y'all can go fuck yourselves if you think I'm going to care about you in the any aspect until you stand up and actually fight for shit. We have done or put our lives on the-- we put our lives on line four. And then that to happen. And then when you get back, and then there is all-- Oh, hey, for the VA. Oh, well, eh, eh, we'll give you-- let me see. One, how's your-- you work, right? You get 50% disability. Congrats, man. I know I get the fuck out of here. I don't know if I can name a single group of, you know, No, regardless of political affiliation, but a single group of people that trusts the government less than combat pets. Yeah. 100%. Literally not. That's unfortunate. I love my country, but I fucking hate my government, man. Yep. I'm not left to right. I'm American. That's it. It's like you support. And it sucks because those are your brothers and sisters that you deployed with and it's hard finding that. Anywhere else. Like it is, I think that's what a lot of vet struggle with is finding that outside. There are military career and that's what's scary because you can't find that again. And when you do, you're like, oh, yeah, but unfortunately a lot don't. And that's it. It just fucking sucks, but I will praise you for having the balls to tell that story to honor the individuals that are part of that story. And then to like trying to hold people accountable. Unsubs really good at that. We're really fucking good. We try to be. It's kind of a hobby. Yeah. I appreciate that very much. I mean, quite literally. I'm never myself battled with survivors of guilt or anything like that. And maybe that's because of how I got physically or because of my fucking. Because friends and Marines died right next to me. I mean, it's, I don't know what it is, but I just would hope that one of my buddies has stand up and tell the truth if I wasn't here anymore. You know, I mean, it's the least I can do. It's like even the, even the fucking testifying in front of Congress in 2023. Like so, especially the families. That's what ate me up. Like so many people are like, oh, this is incredible. This is amazing that you went and did this. And I'm like, no, you know what's sad is that accountability is so foreign in our military and our government and our fucking and the political culture of our fucking country. That me going before the House Representative and the House Foreign Affairs Committee and telling the truth about what happened seems like this amazing fucking thing. And it's not someone with way more rank and weight on their call or should have come forth and told the fucking truth and been like, yeah, we made a mistake. Like people died. We made a mistake. They're already fucking gone. So why don't we try and do better. And I went and I had the opportunity very, very fucking thankfully had the opportunity to go and tell the truth and and like it blew up. But it was just like, no, it's not this great thing. It's just what should be done. Like it's, it's a responsibility to my friends who aren't here anymore. So the fucking American, the great Americans that we lost and the tens of thousands of Americans that we've lost and wars passed. I mean, we, it's, you know, if we're not going to fucking get better from our mistakes and what the fuck are we doing, you know? It's the standard. It should be the fucking standard of what happens. Yeah. I don't think you have, like, survivor guilt is, I don't think you have that because you are doing that. It is. Here is my mission. Here's my next job. And I'm going to do this the best I can. And you are also in that level of shit with those individuals. And I think you have the same mindset. Maybe I could be off, but it's the same mindset as my buddies would be pissed if I was depressed or sad about that. I shouldn't be sad. I'm going to mourn them. Then I'm going to move on. I'm going to have absolutely crush the individuals that made this situation even a possibility. It's, it's okay to hurt, but it's not okay to stay there. You know, I mean, I've got it on my shirt. I fucking, I live by that, man. I mean, I'm a causative war, but I'll never be a victim of what's happened to me. And, you know, I knew the nature of my job. I knew the risk of my job. Like, yeah, it shouldn't have happened, but it did, you know, that's the reality. It did. I can't change that. And so why the fuck am I, if I don't feel sorry for myself, I'm not going to feel sorry for you, you know. Life's too fucking short, man. I just try to make good impact and, you know, that's, that's it. Like, I find, I guess, I guess the best way I can say is like, if, you know, we would have no frame of reference for how truly beautiful life could be if we did not truly understand the hardship and the pain that also follows in life. If things were great all the time, then it would just be whatever. If things were battle time would be, that'd be whatever, but we have to go through the hardships and, you know, it's up to you. It's up to anyone, whether it's bigger, small, it's, you know, your pain, all of you, like the worst thing they go through is the worst thing they go through. The worst thing that I go through is the worst thing that I go through and all of our own pain, trauma and struggle and strife is relative to what we've been through in life. Respective. It is absolutely 100% perspective. Peaks and valleys. Well, shit. Well, we appreciate you coming on and telling your story. I appreciate you guys very much. Thanks for having me. Seriously. It's an honor. Yeah. Hopefully I didn't sound like an idiot on here, but that's what we do. That's our job. That's the cross we bear. Let us be fucking stupid dude. It's the Albatross around our neck. I was going to make one quick joke because on that camera, it's framed with how this is holding it. It says ever the victim. I think you're like, no, never. I think on April Fool's, I'm probably going to do like always a victim, you know. Yes, please. We will help sell that for you. Appreciate it. Dude, thank you so much. Dude, I cannot. I will loss awards. It's individuals like yourself and through the trials and tribulations you have been through that motivate the fuck out of me. It make me appreciate my life and make me want to do better. So just thank you, Tyler, for everything you have done so far. No, thanks ever needed. It's daily. I mean, you guys do it yourselves. Like we talked about it lunch. It's, you know, you got that I've got hundreds by now. If not thousands of DM, just like, man, you're the reason I self today. It's like, that's that's why I fucking live my life the way that I do, you know, it's to hopefully stop that one person or just quite literally give them perspective. Like, you know what? Yeah. Feeling shitty bad things have been happening my life, but there's a line. It's like, am I going to feel sorry for myself and give up or am I just going to fucking learn from it and move forward. So you guys have made a significant impact and continue to do so. But I'm grateful to be a small part in that. Thank you for the opportunity to come hang out and talk. No, we really do appreciate it, brother. Yeah, appreciate you guys. Of course, man, thank you very much. We just started making out. Well, that was where you stick together. Two hours and 10 minutes. Marine Navy. Where do we find you? Uh, whistling death on Instagram. Um, I, uh, I very professionally left. So I've started my journey earlier this year as a blade Smith. Oh, oh, we're going to talk about this now. I'm very professionally left. Um, all of my handmade and production blades at home, I put my blade that I made us all a cute matching set and, and Nick as well. Um, I left them at home. Yeah, I have, I have mine because I put it so I have my gun. I put it in my gun case. Yeah, bragging. But I put it in my gun case. Uh, traveling like a mobile pelkin case, but I made all of us matching matching blades. So I'm going to end up I'm going to end up shipping them out, but that's made by me one hand quite literally. Um, hand and claw makes it even cooler and then literally handmade. Yeah, just, oh, we're going to, oh, and where do they find this? Tyrant design.com. Same with the, the merchant stuff. I hopped on, you know, I got the opportunity to hop in with you guys and, uh, bunker branding and whatnot. So very grateful for that. Um, but yeah, no, it's been, it's been great. I'll get you, uh, I'll be once I moved and have my forged set up whenever you guys want to come out and learn how to forge some Damascus. Let me, let me guys out, shoot some guns and before we go to the after show that's what I was after show is going to be talking about like late blacksmith thing. Hell yeah, I want to know. Oh, yeah, yeah, we're going to be one of those where I sit patiently. Well, that's true. Okay. I do have a little bit. Oh, he's going to be like, what the fuck are they talking about? How do you beautiful son of a bitch? God, you look good today. Can I just buy everyone? What? I heard great. Dude, your hair looks on point today. I just want to copy my really quick. They're nice to be fucking sometimes. It's really cool. Bye everyone. Thank you for coming to the unscribed podcast. I was joined by Eli double tap Tyler Vargas Andrews, Brandon Herrera, my self-donald operator. Join us on the after show on Patreon. Poor don't. I don't care. Our fuck yourself. Dude. I love it. You won't run.