Eli Doubletap

Well, I didn't know about stress.

I didn't know the word stress, anxiety, depression.

Those words didn't exist in my childhood, you know?

And so I enlisted in 03, and I was a scout sniper, force reconnaissance Marine.

Then Marine Special Operations Command started, so I started that.

I'm a plank owner of that for the West Coast.

And then I, yeah, I retired in 2018.

I came back from my last deployment.

I was the SOTA North Special Operations Task Force Senior Enlisted Advisor.

And so I came back from that deployment that I spent the whole time like watching like kill TV, like the wall of TVs.

It was actually my greatest deployment because I got to do exactly what we all said when we were the lower echelon guys.

Like, man, I wish people just like took care of us and looked out for us.

And I got to be that guy and, you know, fight for dudes.

And it was great.

And anytime I could yell at an officer and like not care, A, being a master sergeant, they can't do anything to me.

B, I was 245 pounds of like pure just...

awesomeness, you know, sex appeal.

They're not, they didn't want to do anything to you.

And I'm Jewish.

So it's like, they can't like hate on me.