"The rate I was going I wasn’t going to end up anywhere five star, you know?"
"If you, are going into the reserves, use it for just getting a foot in the civilian world."
"Join the military and get out of poverty because that was the lifestyle that Lynn brought to my family."
"As smart as I thought I was, my kids knew from day one there was something wrong."
"I figured the military would buy me some time to sort of figure out what I was doing."
"The biggest risk the US has now is trying to solve too many of the world’s problems militarily."
"I felt the duty to repay my dues to a country that accepted me as one of their own"
"You have no idea what they’ve seen, what they’ve heard, or what they’ve had to do."
"You have to take it from the military. It’s not just going to give it to you."
"You kind of make it harder for yourself if you don’t work within the system"
They were telling us conflict was not going to have any clear cut victory anymore.
