Dakota Meyer

No, he said infantry.

And so, um, yeah, you know, and so I, I signed up for infantry, you know, I went, I, um, I went to Paris Island and then, you know, went to a station in Hawaii and I'll

I was like, who are they?

Like, they just gave off a different presence.

Right.

And so, uh, they were, they were the sniper platoon.

They were the, you know, the snipers on there, you know, there was, I think there were weapons at that time.

But anyways, um, I was like, I want to, I want to, I want to be them.

Like they are like, they knew their stuff.

I remember a guy talked to me about something and like, I was like, holy shit.

Like they really know what they're doing, you know?

And, um,

So I, they had an, an in-doc they needed, they were just going to have security guys.

And so like they came out with this in-doc and I went out for it and made it.

And so you weren't even supposed to be going to like a school or anything until after this deployment in Iraq.

And, and, um,

I was just doing my thing and I made it into the platoon.

And then right before we were about to go on pre-deployment leave, they said that they had a spot open up at sniper school.

And I was just so lucky that I was the only one that had all the prerequisites to go.

And they're like, you can either go to sniper school or you can go on pre-deployment leave.