WEBVTT 00:08.840 --> 00:12.800 um do you have 00:12.800 --> 00:15.060 any other family members that are in 00:15.060 --> 00:17.171 the military or were you the first to 00:17.171 --> 00:20.340 join ? Yeah I got a cousin , he went to 00:20.350 --> 00:22.517 Pacific in high school too ? He's in a 00:22.517 --> 00:24.683 4:30 ? He just left Iraq . He just got 00:24.683 --> 00:27.170 done . But he joined a year after me . 00:27.170 --> 00:30.280 We've been in both for just about the 00:30.280 --> 00:32.430 same time and he also joined right 00:32.430 --> 00:34.486 after high school . So that's pretty 00:34.486 --> 00:36.486 cool . I mean we were like brothers 00:36.486 --> 00:38.708 growing up and so now you know we're in 00:38.708 --> 00:38.060 the army together . It's pretty deep . 00:41.140 --> 00:41.950 That's cool . 00:45.540 --> 00:47.651 So are you married or do you have any 00:47.651 --> 00:50.950 kids ? No , I'm single , not married . 00:51.440 --> 00:54.060 Mhm . Too young to be getting married , 00:55.140 --> 00:57.850 definitely . Mhm . 01:00.640 --> 01:04.440 So what's your best memory so far ? My 01:04.440 --> 01:06.607 best memory you say my best memories ? 01:06.607 --> 01:10.150 Yes . Just like the uh I 01:10.150 --> 01:12.630 mean the overall camaraderie and uh you 01:12.630 --> 01:15.070 know the friendships that I've made in 01:15.070 --> 01:17.230 the army ? You know you make these 01:17.230 --> 01:20.270 friendships in the army through . It's 01:20.270 --> 01:22.820 like we share so many uh you know 01:22.830 --> 01:25.070 miserable experiences and good 01:25.070 --> 01:27.126 experiences getting shot at together 01:27.126 --> 01:29.070 and you know just doing everything 01:29.070 --> 01:31.070 together . It's like these guys are 01:31.070 --> 01:33.237 like my family . I mean they're closer 01:33.237 --> 01:35.348 than to me than any family I actually 01:35.348 --> 01:37.403 have . So I mean just every day with 01:37.403 --> 01:39.514 these dudes to my left and right . Is 01:39.514 --> 01:42.620 it another experience ? Good experience . 01:55.640 --> 01:57.807 Is there anything that you want people 01:57.807 --> 02:01.370 to know about you ? Is that 02:01.370 --> 02:03.620 you is there anything that you want 02:03.620 --> 02:05.787 people to know about you or that a lot 02:05.787 --> 02:06.953 of people don't know 02:08.940 --> 02:11.940 I the end of their fix this out again , 02:12.070 --> 02:14.292 can you say it again , sorry , is there 02:14.292 --> 02:16.514 anything that you want , people to know 02:16.514 --> 02:18.514 about you or that people , a lot of 02:18.514 --> 02:22.230 people don't know , wow , I have no 02:22.230 --> 02:25.170 idea what you said , I'm sorry , I'm 02:25.170 --> 02:26.530 sorry , 02:29.440 --> 02:32.100 can you hear me now ? Yeah , I can hear 02:32.100 --> 02:34.130 you , it's just like real , I don't 02:34.130 --> 02:36.270 know , it just sounds bad , I don't 02:36.280 --> 02:38.169 keep asking me maybe I'll hear it 02:38.169 --> 02:40.880 eventually . Say is there anything that 02:40.880 --> 02:44.740 you want people to know about you ? Oh 02:44.750 --> 02:46.861 is there any people that want to know 02:46.861 --> 02:48.750 about me or something like that ? 02:48.750 --> 02:50.917 Anything you want people to know about 02:50.917 --> 02:54.100 you ? Oh anything that I want people to 02:54.100 --> 02:57.900 know about me , Yes , so uh I don't 02:57.900 --> 03:00.680 know , just a normal dude decided to 03:00.680 --> 03:03.013 join the army and everything worked out , 03:03.013 --> 03:06.280 so it's not such a bad , not such a bad 03:06.280 --> 03:07.280 place . 03:28.740 --> 03:29.360 Right ? 03:32.340 --> 03:35.340 And sorry , going back to this when you 03:35.340 --> 03:37.530 were home , did you notice people 03:37.530 --> 03:40.030 treating you differently in the United 03:40.030 --> 03:43.370 States ? Not really . I mean most 03:43.370 --> 03:45.592 people are real interested to hear what 03:45.592 --> 03:47.481 I have to say about my first hand 03:47.481 --> 03:49.910 experiences in Iraq and stuff and I 03:49.910 --> 03:51.854 mean I've never really met anybody 03:51.854 --> 03:54.260 that's treating me differently , you 03:54.260 --> 03:56.538 know they maybe with a little bit more , 03:56.538 --> 03:58.538 if anything , I usually get treated 03:58.538 --> 04:00.538 with more respect , you know like I 04:00.538 --> 04:02.593 have been around and experience some 04:02.593 --> 04:04.649 stuff . People usually have a lot of 04:04.649 --> 04:06.704 questions about what's going on over 04:06.704 --> 04:08.927 there and I try to clear misconceptions 04:08.927 --> 04:10.982 and stuff like that , but I mean for 04:10.982 --> 04:10.460 the most parts , you know , I'm just , 04:11.040 --> 04:14.350 everybody should be saying what have 04:14.350 --> 04:16.239 you noticed to be the most common 04:16.239 --> 04:19.960 misconceptions ? Uh you know like 04:20.740 --> 04:23.920 I've heard everything from , I mean the 04:23.920 --> 04:26.253 army is just out here blowing up people , 04:26.740 --> 04:28.907 I always have to tell him , you know , 04:28.907 --> 04:31.200 that's absolutely ridiculous and you 04:31.200 --> 04:33.144 know , just stuff like that , just 04:33.144 --> 04:35.311 simply things and I just about what we 04:35.311 --> 04:37.644 do , you know , we're here trying to do , 04:37.644 --> 04:40.420 trying to help people , you know , just 04:40.420 --> 04:42.670 like , I mean anything else we're just 04:42.680 --> 04:44.847 doing , I mean we're not we're not out 04:44.847 --> 04:46.902 here acting like idiots , you know , 04:46.902 --> 04:49.013 we're out here being professionals or 04:49.013 --> 04:51.013 we get paid to do this , you know , 04:51.013 --> 04:53.069 it's a we don't , if we don't do our 04:53.069 --> 04:55.180 job , I mean people die so you know , 04:55.180 --> 04:58.640 we gotta , we gotta act right yeah . 05:05.840 --> 05:08.070 How does it make you feel that the news 05:08.070 --> 05:10.700 media in general has been so against 05:10.710 --> 05:14.640 the war in Iraq , I caught 05:14.640 --> 05:16.640 most of that . Can you tell me that 05:16.640 --> 05:18.862 again ? How does , how does it make you 05:18.862 --> 05:21.500 feel that the news media in general in 05:21.500 --> 05:24.760 America is so against the war , How do 05:24.760 --> 05:27.810 I feel about the something in general ? 05:27.810 --> 05:31.320 The war , Iraq , the media in general 05:31.330 --> 05:35.280 being so against the war , Oh I'm I 05:35.290 --> 05:37.346 mean that's not that's not really my 05:37.346 --> 05:39.640 place to say , I'm here to do a job 05:39.650 --> 05:41.872 doesn't matter if I'm for it or against 05:41.872 --> 05:43.983 it ? I'm gonna do the best job that I 05:43.983 --> 05:46.039 can do to help these people out over 05:46.039 --> 05:48.372 here . But I mean , really , personally , 05:48.372 --> 05:47.980 you know , we're helping the people 05:47.980 --> 05:50.147 were just here helping anybody . We're 05:50.147 --> 05:52.060 trying to do the right thing . 06:01.140 --> 06:02.140 That's good . 06:05.140 --> 06:07.320 So it doesn't really it doesn't bother 06:07.320 --> 06:10.560 you that like , the media at home is 06:10.560 --> 06:12.782 like , so against the war , you just do 06:12.782 --> 06:16.150 your job . Don't worry about it . Uh 06:16.940 --> 06:18.920 I kind of always said sorry . 06:22.440 --> 06:26.170 Um I heard you say like , when I 06:26.170 --> 06:28.392 hear people that are against the war or 06:28.392 --> 06:30.448 something like that ? Oh , no , just 06:30.448 --> 06:32.990 media . Uh like the american news media . 06:33.000 --> 06:36.180 So against the war , does that like , 06:36.190 --> 06:38.412 it doesn't bother you at all ? You just 06:38.412 --> 06:41.280 worry about your job . I can't 06:41.280 --> 06:43.700 understand her . Yeah . Let me put this 06:43.700 --> 06:45.922 other everything is all right . It's my 06:45.922 --> 06:47.978 fault . Probably . Where's the other 06:47.978 --> 06:51.320 you're good at ? Uh huh . Yes . one . 06:51.320 --> 06:54.880 No more questions . It's good . So 06:54.880 --> 06:57.770 great . All right . It will be able to 06:57.770 --> 07:01.600 hear you now . Do you hear me ? Yeah . 07:01.610 --> 07:03.610 All right . What was the question ? 07:04.040 --> 07:05.990 Okay , um I don't think there's 07:05.990 --> 07:08.046 anything coming out of this . That's 07:08.046 --> 07:11.120 right . Can you hear me now ? I'm just 07:11.120 --> 07:13.342 talking to my helpers over here ? We're 07:13.342 --> 07:15.676 trying to get the sound a little better , 07:17.940 --> 07:19.996 but go ahead , go ahead and ask your 07:19.996 --> 07:22.162 question again . Maybe I'll understand 07:22.162 --> 07:24.160 you this time ? Sorry ? Um 07:26.940 --> 07:30.860 sorry I lost my place ? How much 07:30.860 --> 07:32.360 longer will you be there ? 07:34.140 --> 07:38.040 Uh Is this , can I say 07:38.040 --> 07:40.151 that ? How much longer will be here ? 07:40.440 --> 07:43.650 Yes . We're like another 67 months ? 07:43.770 --> 07:45.992 Like seven more months ? I think we got 07:45.992 --> 07:45.850 seven more months here . 07:52.740 --> 07:54.907 And then how long have you been listed 07:54.907 --> 07:56.907 for ? Will you be done when you get 07:56.907 --> 07:59.690 home or are you still ? Yes , everyone 07:59.690 --> 08:03.260 time afterwards . Uh 08:03.840 --> 08:05.896 Again , I really catch everything he 08:05.896 --> 08:07.840 said . But I think you were saying 08:07.840 --> 08:10.007 something about when I get back home , 08:10.040 --> 08:12.207 how much longer am I going to be in or 08:12.207 --> 08:15.010 something like that ? Uh When I get 08:15.010 --> 08:16.899 back from Iraq this time I've got 08:16.899 --> 08:18.954 another year just about another year 08:18.954 --> 08:21.240 left in the army . And then I'll 08:21.240 --> 08:23.407 probably wind up reenlisting staying a 08:23.407 --> 08:25.351 little bit longer . Still got some 08:25.351 --> 08:27.629 stuff I want to accomplish in the army . 08:27.629 --> 08:27.260 You know , some more goals before . I 08:27.840 --> 08:29.618 you know , find something new . 08:31.640 --> 08:35.560 What are your goals ? Uh 08:35.570 --> 08:37.403 Just you know , there's a lot of 08:37.403 --> 08:39.292 opportunities . The army got some 08:39.292 --> 08:39.100 schools that I want to go to . They're 08:39.100 --> 08:41.044 gonna let me actually , the army's 08:41.044 --> 08:43.267 gonna let me do some civilian education 08:43.267 --> 08:45.780 stuff and uh try to go to some other 08:45.780 --> 08:47.950 units and to see what else There is an 08:47.950 --> 08:49.894 army . You know , you got a lot of 08:49.894 --> 08:51.894 stuff to offer . Tell the truth . I 08:51.894 --> 08:54.117 want to go to Afghanistan to I've never 08:54.117 --> 08:56.061 been to Afghanistan . And I mean , 08:56.061 --> 08:58.061 seems like it would be a you know , 08:58.061 --> 09:00.117 whole another adventure over there ? 09:04.440 --> 09:07.440 Yeah . Uh huh . 09:11.740 --> 09:13.962 Is there anything else that you want to 09:13.962 --> 09:16.129 tell me or anything else that you want 09:16.129 --> 09:19.660 to stay at all ? I heard you say the 09:19.660 --> 09:21.771 last thing I could catch after that . 09:22.940 --> 09:25.107 Uh Is this is there anything else that 09:25.107 --> 09:27.550 you want to tell me ? Uh 09:29.640 --> 09:32.420 ah I mean they pretty much covered 09:32.420 --> 09:35.700 everything . Yeah . All right , well , 09:35.700 --> 09:38.860 thank you so much . Yeah . The problem . 09:40.040 --> 09:43.560 Really proud of you . You're very brave . 09:44.240 --> 09:47.120 Thank you very much , yep . Take it 09:47.120 --> 09:47.360 easy .