Father Stephen Gadberry

But it broke me in a good way because now it's one of the things I took out of that was the need to dig even deeper, be more alert, pay more attention. They put in that logistics job. While we're waiting, we're just cleaning every day. You probably remember that. Like if you don't just sit around and do nothing, they make you do something.

But it broke me in a good way because now it's one of the things I took out of that was the need to dig even deeper, be more alert, pay more attention. They put in that logistics job. While we're waiting, we're just cleaning every day. You probably remember that. Like if you don't just sit around and do nothing, they make you do something.

So we had to clean every day, the same barracks over and over and over. But, dude, idle time is like a bad thing when it comes to the troops. Like you can just do some dumb stuff. Like you don't need –

So we had to clean every day, the same barracks over and over and over. But, dude, idle time is like a bad thing when it comes to the troops. Like you can just do some dumb stuff. Like you don't need –

So we had to clean every day, the same barracks over and over and over. But, dude, idle time is like a bad thing when it comes to the troops. Like you can just do some dumb stuff. Like you don't need –

booze or drugs if it's just a bunch of you know meatheads together we would uh like overnight we'd stay up all night just being dumbasses we would do like demolition derby we'd put guys on the office chairs and one on one end of the hallway one on the other and just you'd run them and crash mend each other just stupid stuff like that

booze or drugs if it's just a bunch of you know meatheads together we would uh like overnight we'd stay up all night just being dumbasses we would do like demolition derby we'd put guys on the office chairs and one on one end of the hallway one on the other and just you'd run them and crash mend each other just stupid stuff like that

booze or drugs if it's just a bunch of you know meatheads together we would uh like overnight we'd stay up all night just being dumbasses we would do like demolition derby we'd put guys on the office chairs and one on one end of the hallway one on the other and just you'd run them and crash mend each other just stupid stuff like that

One guy had a bowling ball one day, and I don't know where the hell he got a bowling ball from, but it was in the dorms, and so the guys were just rolling it up and down the hallway. So I picked it up in my time, and I threw it, and they all got out of the way, and it hit the emergency exit, and the fire alarm went off, so I had to call them and make up a story.

One guy had a bowling ball one day, and I don't know where the hell he got a bowling ball from, but it was in the dorms, and so the guys were just rolling it up and down the hallway. So I picked it up in my time, and I threw it, and they all got out of the way, and it hit the emergency exit, and the fire alarm went off, so I had to call them and make up a story.

One guy had a bowling ball one day, and I don't know where the hell he got a bowling ball from, but it was in the dorms, and so the guys were just rolling it up and down the hallway. So I picked it up in my time, and I threw it, and they all got out of the way, and it hit the emergency exit, and the fire alarm went off, so I had to call them and make up a story.

Like, I was talking to my mom, and I leaned against the door, set it off. I was scared, man. Did logistics, did that training. That was down in Lackland. I got assigned to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. That was cool. That was my first time out in the real world. Growing up, I was always in the family. Then the military, they're always watching you. But at Ramstein, I was like on my own.

Like, I was talking to my mom, and I leaned against the door, set it off. I was scared, man. Did logistics, did that training. That was down in Lackland. I got assigned to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. That was cool. That was my first time out in the real world. Growing up, I was always in the family. Then the military, they're always watching you. But at Ramstein, I was like on my own.

Like, I was talking to my mom, and I leaned against the door, set it off. I was scared, man. Did logistics, did that training. That was down in Lackland. I got assigned to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. That was cool. That was my first time out in the real world. Growing up, I was always in the family. Then the military, they're always watching you. But at Ramstein, I was like on my own.

Of course, you got the base, got your work, but I was making decisions on my own. And that was one of the first times I really feel some autonomy and making free choices for myself. People are big advocates of that, and that's good. We do need to make our own choices. But sometimes it's to the detriment of family and community life. So growing up, the family was so close.

Of course, you got the base, got your work, but I was making decisions on my own. And that was one of the first times I really feel some autonomy and making free choices for myself. People are big advocates of that, and that's good. We do need to make our own choices. But sometimes it's to the detriment of family and community life. So growing up, the family was so close.

Of course, you got the base, got your work, but I was making decisions on my own. And that was one of the first times I really feel some autonomy and making free choices for myself. People are big advocates of that, and that's good. We do need to make our own choices. But sometimes it's to the detriment of family and community life. So growing up, the family was so close.

I didn't have a lot of freedoms because, well, this is what the family's doing, so that's what you're going to do. And it sucked as a kid, but one of the good things that it taught me was, like, how to be a team player. There's going to be a lot of stuff in life that you're not going to want to do, but you got to do it because that's what love requires. So just do it, you know.

I didn't have a lot of freedoms because, well, this is what the family's doing, so that's what you're going to do. And it sucked as a kid, but one of the good things that it taught me was, like, how to be a team player. There's going to be a lot of stuff in life that you're not going to want to do, but you got to do it because that's what love requires. So just do it, you know.

I didn't have a lot of freedoms because, well, this is what the family's doing, so that's what you're going to do. And it sucked as a kid, but one of the good things that it taught me was, like, how to be a team player. There's going to be a lot of stuff in life that you're not going to want to do, but you got to do it because that's what love requires. So just do it, you know.