Kyle Carpenter

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

And so I thought maybe I went on a patrol, stepped on an IED and just the roof is the last thing I can remember.

And that thought process was interrupted by, of course, what I thought was my buddies messing with me because Marines and service members are experts at messing with each other.

It's kind of like our secondary job.

Sure.

And I thought, man, you know, whatever's happened, I can't believe in this banged up state that I'm in that my buddies are pouring warm water all over me.

And that fragmented piece allowed the other ones to kind of fall into place.

And I realized like, oh man, whatever's happened, my buddies aren't messing with me and that's not warm water.

I'm profusely bleeding out.

And so at that moment,

while getting just, I would say tired, but that would be an understatement.

It's probably the life leaving your body.

Just drained, draining to and from your core.

Just hard to describe.

But at that moment, when I realized that, I knew that was it.

I thought about my family.

how devastated my mom was going to be when that government car pulled into the driveway or those two Marines in uniform knocked on the front door to tell my family I would not be coming home alive.

And lastly, I said a quick prayer for forgiveness for anything I had done wrong in my life.