Ellis Jones

Like it's right.

Full on.

I don't even know if that's like that in the Marine Corps, but I know that the obstacle course was based on the one from Parris Island because they would have leathernecks, like the guys in uniform, come to look at the obstacle course.

You had to memorize passages verbatim from the Marine Corps handbook.

It was the Marine Corps with none of the clout and none of the weapons.

And Marine Corps is only three months long.

And we had to do the same shit, the Marine Corps physical fitness test.

You got to run three miles, do a bunch of sit-ups, do a bunch of pull-ups.

We had to pass that in order to get out of boot camp into the next program called Transitions, which is helping you acclimate back into society.

So things are going pretty good.

And I think that, I mean, they weren't going good.

It was still hell on earth.

But they had kind of stopped punishing the fuck out of me for lying about that.

But I never came clean.

I stuck to my guns on that, dude.

So then one day I get called into a room, and the psychologist, the corporal, this dude, Corporal Rath, was the human Donkey Kong.

This motherfucker could grab the ropes, like those big ship ropes you got to climb.

He could grab one in each hand and climb with no legs.

He was a bastard.

Like, he was a mean motherfucker, and he could fuck you up.