Dakota Meyer

It's up to you.

And I'm like, I'm going to sniper school.

And so I went to sniper school, graduated the first time through, and then turned around and deployed to Iraq.

Yeah.

Yeah, something like that.

Like what they usually tried to do was is like after you did your like final, your final workup, like, you know, like after you went to 29 Palms, you usually came back and they would try to give you

like a couple of weeks to either get your stuff together, go home, see your family, like something like that.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

yeah train up and then you're gone we skipped ntc though like it was that yeah yeah you're spinning up and you're just getting out of here yeah so we yeah we weren't we we did that and then uh you know we don't i didn't uh i didn't how long was the school 12 weeks damn yeah yeah so it was 12 weeks and then uh graduated that and then left for iraq fallujah was your team already out there when you guys landed or you all still deployed together

Yeah, we all still went together, right?

So they went home on pre-deployment leave, and then they were getting everything ready, and then I was still able to make the deployment.

So I literally graduated sniper school, and I think I left 10 to 15 days later.

Oh, okay.

2007, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It was popping off.

Well, I mean, you know, we thought we were going into it, right?

And, like, we're reading, you know, hearing about everything that's going on over there before we got there.