Brandon Herrera

Sergeant Major Weimer, that's when the first time we met him at General George's house.

They were asking, I was going around, you're supposed to tell something about yourself.

And I was like, oh, blah, blah, blah.

I was like, oh, you like to deploy to fucking, why did I join?

They're like, why did you join?

I was like, well, I thought combat would be cool.

It was going to be kick-ass.

No, I got a gunfight.

That sucks.

And Mike was like, he's been in fights.

Yep.

He gets it.

I was like, oh, okay, good.

That's the right answer.

Because it fucking, it sucks.

And it is a stressor you will experience.

It helps later in life because it takes a lot to stress you out after that shit, for me at least.

It takes a whole lot to stress me out.

after because I'm sure you had your guys especially at the Afghanistan deployment that's where you've seen that huge a decade after is when we started seeing a big like losing a lot of individuals my battalion we're at 29 29 after we've been back for 18 years now I think yeah but that's when you're just seeing like way more we lost 16 over there and then we've lost 29 since we've been back we're almost hit

double the amount just once because and i'm sure you like we've talked about it before that idea of getting there like going to sick hall being going to therapy shit like you don't do that crush your feelings yeah and so i'm like hey actually should probably talk about it give advice lead by example too yeah like hey if you're if you're telling guys that are getting in now they're like oh and you're warning was like hey ptsd therapy like you