00:00I really wanted to push myself and see where the boundaries of of what I can
00:05achieve is. I thought the infantry would be perfect for that. I'm literally
00:09signing up to go into combat.
00:17I wanted to go over there and I wanted to see it firsthand. I knew the risks and
00:21the consequences. I had lost friends already before I was even in. So I signed
00:25up, chose the infantry. I remember it was like everything we wanted as
00:29infantry guys. You wanted to to see combat. That's like why we enlisted into the
00:35infantry. It's not exactly like what you thought it would be and it gets real real
00:40quick.
00:46You're either Chris Cowell or you're Timothy McVeigh. You know like and everyone's
00:50just waiting to find out who you are or they just assume one way or the other.
00:55It's like something devastating happened and I don't know what's going. I don't
01:00know how to go through it.
01:03Not like what the effects of war do to people. It's the effect of like coming
01:06back to society and what society does for people that have done things for them.
01:16You got to take personal accountability. You know, if you start to go down that rabbit hole, you know, when
01:22you start to feel those bad feelings, you know, or think those bad thoughts, you got to reach out.
01:29And I feel like I have a mission to help out as many veterans, whether you're a combat veteran or
01:36just a regular dude that's going through it.
