Gary Brecka

So what I did is I joined the National Guard because I was nervous going active duty and leaving my mother.

Because National Guard, you come back home, and it's like, oh, two weeks in the summer, one week in a month.

So I go, I leave basic training, I come back home, right back to that toxic environment that I left.

And that turned into, I lived with four dudes.

We were partying, drinking, doing drugs every night.

I went to jail twice.

I was fighting, you know, like I, I, I,

I'm so surprised those couple, I was not kicked out of the military.

Like I was a, I was not a good person.

Like I came back and I just, I got swept into this toxic environment of, of where I grew up, but now as an adult and now I can make my own decisions around here.

Like, you know, like just, and, and I just, I look at that timeframe and I'm like, holy shit.

Like, how did I not really implode?

Yeah.

And, and,

I mean, because when I first got in the military, I have a picture of myself from like 2014 of just like man boobs.

Like I was this body and I was almost 180 pounds.

Oh, my gosh.

From drinking, smoking weed every day, just like –

I mean, I'm talking every single day.

I was drunk every night, like just all the time.