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Jake

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

I had a pretty lackluster career, no Hollywood deployments or anything.

Otherworld
Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2

I mean, you can feel it when you walk in there.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

I got in after the global war on terrorism was over, but I still, you know, I did my deployments.

Otherworld
Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2

Everything that's happened over the past few months, I don't know what I believe anymore.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

I did my job.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

And just from the nature of that job, because of my expertise, I ended up with a TBI, a traumatic brain injury.

Otherworld
Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2

I'm kind of, I'm really setting my own beliefs now and I'm kind of chasing that and determining what I think of, you know, our existence in this world and everything.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

So I was, I was a Navy Swick.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

I, um,

Otherworld
Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2

and all that um but if there if there are things out there if if things can get you know caught in this reality or whatever it is that room has to be one of those places because that room is just pure healing i mean that is where people's lives change for the better it's it's indescribable the person who goes in that room is not the person that's going to come out of that room that's kind of what they give us and kind of what they tell us and then uh they number us one through six and

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

went to, so I, and it's not, you know, none of this is like classified or anything.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

It's more just personal preference.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

My team was just outside of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

And then, so our inherent job is being the best in the world at shooting heavy weapons, 50 cal machine guns, mini guns, 240s, everything like that.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

So the big guns that shoot a lot of rounds and,

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

we're just finding out now, do a lot of damage.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

The average gun you're gonna see in a movie is gonna shoot a 5.56 round, which is smaller than anything coming out of a minigun or a .50 cal.

Otherworld
Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2

I was picked to go fifth, and if you go fifth or sixth, you're allowed to have a small breakfast because you're going to be waiting a while, despite the fact that the hits don't take that long.

Otherworld
Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1

When you see, I guess, one of those massive sniper rifles in a movie is the best way I can explain it.

Otherworld
Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2

Guys go in, you get set up, absolutely nobody's rushed, and then afterwards you go out on the deck where there's a plunge pool, there's a water feature, so you hear water moving, you're overlooking the ocean, the sun's out, that's where you take your notes, and you do that as well, and nobody's rushed.