Jake

And you can assume, because of how big the rifle is, that it's longer than the person shooting it.

That's a .50 cal round, and that's what, you know, these machine guns are shooting hundreds of every minute, multiple of them a second.

The minigun is shooting a round slightly smaller than that, but still a pretty massive round, and you're shooting 3,000 of those a minute.

Like the...

Again, the vibe in the house, the energy in that house, nobody in that house is rushing you.

So 50 of those a second are coming out of that gun.

You're supposed to be selfish in this moment and take all the time you need.

Yeah, it's a pretty, like when you hold a .50 cal round, you feel like you're holding something pretty crazy.

I go upstairs and wait for a while.

You don't feel like you're holding a bullet.

And that was a moment where I was really proud of myself.

There's heft to it.

It's actually almost impossible to explain how loud they are.

I was actually really excited about that because I had had so many nerves coming up to that.

A minigun is so loud that if you're not wearing hearing protection, it's going to ruin your hearing.

And I was at peace all day.

We always were hearing protection.

I just sat there and meditated, looked at the ocean, talked to the other guys I was waiting with, got to know them a lot better.

Our communications, the way that we communicated through radios and stuff, have built-in hearing protection.

And then when it was finally my time, I headed down.