DJ Shipley

But because I have this flag on my shoulder, now I can't.

And now I resent the flag because I can't do to you what I know needs to happen to you.

It's hard, man.

It is.

It's hard, especially when you've lost friends or, you know, extortion one seven happened in August of, uh, extortion 17 had a, a whole troop get killed.

Kilo got shot down, killed everybody on board.

31 guys having to back those guys up on deployment in that exact same place, living in their beds.

If I'm being totally honest, I just wanted to kill everybody.

And to not be able to do it, it's hard.

Because you have the opportunity and it's like, let's not do anything bad now.

Okay, I guess I've got to put you in handcuffs so you're on a helo, drop you off here, they'll put you in a detention center for 10 days, they'll release you.

I'm like.

Okay.

They wouldn't do that to me.

If they wrapped me up and put me in handcuffs, they would saw my head off in 15 minutes.

Now we all know it.

It's not fair.

I hate the fact we're even talking about it, if I'm being honest.

They did such a good job about not talking about it.

I mean, Rob was my first team leader.