Coleman Ruiz
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Not that anyone was fucking around in buds.
Like, you know it's serious.
But you meet a guy like Master Chief Martin who's got 100 combat missions from Vietnam.
He's about to retire.
He was like the third person I met when I checked into the team.
And you suddenly are like a kid again where there's just no fucking around.
Loved it.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
The job's amazing.
Yeah, well, I'll just refer to a special mission unit.
It's probably the easiest.
We have a bunch of teams on the east and west coast.
As a lot of people know nowadays, this shit was not public knowledge years ago.
Yeah, so you have to raise your hand.
You know, I was 10 years in, Andrew.
I had been platoon commander during the invasion of Iraq.
We came to Monterey.
I went to school and went back to be a budget instructor.
It was 10 years, I felt...