Dakota Meyer

Yeah, I mean, yeah.

So I ended up coming back.

I was in Lundstuhl for like 30 days, maybe 20, 30 days.

And then I came back to the state side and then just like occupational therapy.

And I thought I was going to get, I thought I was getting discharged.

You know, like I thought I was going to get discharged out of the Marine Corps because I was like, you know, if you couldn't pass, like if you didn't get your movement back.

So I was in occupational therapy and all this for months.

probably three or four months that's crazy from a spider bite yeah from a spider bite like I thought I was done and then I finally like I don't know I finally I guess I got it back and then like started healing and and then you know my unit returned and so that was kind of my Iraq deployment you know

No, I mean, no, because they knew the type of guy I was.

They knew that I was more pissed than anything else.

And I'll be honest, at that time, they had started taking our ability to go operate away.

At that time, commanders didn't want to take risks.

So like you were having to literally do a 32 point PowerPoint to try to sell you going on missions.

You know what I mean?

And so it was, it was really like, it was crazy.

the wine, 2008, 2009 or 2007, 2007, 2008, you know, we were part of that surge that president Bush sent over.

Right.

And so, yeah.

And, and, you know, it was different for everybody, but you know, for us, like we, it really wasn't, you know, it was nothing crazy.

Yeah, but the one thing that I've seen, though, is the reality of –