Dakota Meyer

You know, you can kind of make anything look any way, right?

And so, like, if I want to make it look like there's, you know, we're done here, well, I just don't let you go to places where there's bad guys because then there's no firefights.

You know what I mean?

Like, it wasn't because there was a lack of...

Opportunity.

Yeah.

It wasn't, you know, it wasn't because of that.

It was just, you know, and maybe, I don't know.

I mean, look, I don't know.

I mean, I'm sure the, you know, the mission switched, you know, the, the, you know, it was all changing.

Yeah.

The parameters were for sure different.

Right.

I mean, like, you know, we were still doing dwell ops and, and I mean, we, we got like hammered by mortars on this dwell op.

I mean, it was, I mean, it wasn't because they're like the bad guys were gone, you know, it was just that, uh,

I think that, I mean, if you don't get in their way, you know, they are those majority of those guys, like, as long as you didn't get in their way, you didn't disrupt their freedom of movement.

Like they were just trying to do their thing, you know?

And so, um, it was, it was, it was an interesting, it was an interesting piece, right?

In 2000 for, for me, you know, I mean, I know there was a ton of combat still going on past that in Iraq, but, um,

Um, you know, it was just for, for, for me on that deployment.