Coleman Ruiz

It was the best place to work.

This is 06 through 2011 for me.

Okay.

So, I mean, I don't know why I did this or why anyone does it.

It's way over 40, but I try not to over-affiliate myself with a larger group than I actually knew.

But the people that I personally knew, Andrew, it's exactly 40.

His tenacity is incredible.

I mean, that's kind of, you know, in the most simplistic terms, Andrew, that is exactly what happens.

There's obviously, you know, a lot more that goes on.

But if you script the diary, so to speak...

It wasn't a funeral every three months, but on average, if I average it out, because I've done this in excavating the last few years, we were at a funeral or memorial effectively every 90 days in that time period.

But it wasn't obviously that simple.

For me and our family...

Doug was my first super close teammate killed, and it wasn't in the team, right?

I'm now at the command.

I was back from Afghanistan, from Kandahar.

This is way before the Marines built up 100 kilometers west of Kandahar.

We were operating.

Six of us with like 180 Afghans, kind of the Wild West back then.

And Doug was killed that summer of 07.