Gary Brecka
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it took me, it probably took me a little bit over a month to really adapt and be like, oh, like, I'm not leaving.
Like, I made this choice and like, I'm here.
This is it.
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.