Eli Doubletap

You're going back tonight.

So I go back and sure, everyone pulled out.

So basically- As far as excuses go for leaving the op, getting shot in the head is pretty good.

But you know, it was crazy.

There was a lot of guys, there was a lot of Marines shot, like there was, I forget his name, but like the two assholes, because he got on OIF-1, he got shot cheek to cheek.

So on the Fallujah deployment, OIF-2, cheek to cheek.

So he got like double tapped, both deployments, all through the ass.

I don't know how that happened.

And so there was a lot of guys just literally walking wounded, like dead.

dead service members, dead fighters, wounded fighters, wounded Marines, that was a very common thing in a very short 24 hour period.

And so we ended up pulling out of Fallujah for a week, they come up with a game plan, then we go in and that was when like really all the, just the horrible stories you kind of hear of like the brutalities of war, that's when really all kind of kicked off.

But this deployment I talked about, my last rotation in 2016,

I saw a lot of telltale signs of like, just my TBI catching up.

I was constantly tired.

I was always taking these little ranger naps and shit.

And I was super, I was stressed to eat Oreos.

My wife would send me these like amazing care packages.

And it was like, you know, those like seasonal Oreos, like whatever flavors.

And like, she made these like a Mason jar cakes.

So I like share with my homies and like, but then I'm like, wait, I can dip this in this frosting.