Dale Comstock

We've always kicked ass.

It's the politics that loses the war for us, particularly the politicians.

And so I look back at Mogadishu, I look back at Bagram,

with huge regret, you know?

And I remember one of the reasons I left Afghanistan, so I spent almost 10 years going back and forth between Afghanistan, Iraq, and a few other countries, but I've got over two years alone just in Afghanistan.

And I remember circa 2010, yeah, 2010, almost 2011, I got off another ambush and I call it my final ambush, but basically what happened was

I remember thinking to myself, if I get out of this one, that's it.

I'm not doing it anymore, right?

Because this one looked almost impossible to get out of.

They got us pretty good.

And we did get out of it.

And I decided, you know what?

I'm going to keep my promise to myself.

At the time, I think I was 47 or 48.

I said, it's time to hang up your guns, go home, be with your family, you know?

But what really drove that decision more than anything was...

When I looked around at the state of the war and I looked at the state of the military at the time and the attitudes, I started to realize good men are dying for nothing, man.

Because there were operations I wanted to do.

Now, I'll give you a good example, right?

So, I had this idea.