Milam Byers
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And he got like everyone you could get and chose West Point because of their honor code.
A few years before that, the Naval Academy, and this tells you a lot about who he was.
The Naval Academy had dropped a,
the end of the the honor code off, which is a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do.
And they had taken off the nor tolerate those who do.
And West Point has always kept that.
And he felt like that was the the the right way to have an honor code was that if you tolerate lying, cheating and stealing, then you're just like
those who broke their honor.
And then he ends up his junior and senior year at West Point being the executive officer of the honor committee.
So they sit in like a courtroom.
and look at these cases of honor, which could be lying about brushing your teeth before morning formation or something much larger, like cheating on a physics test or something, you know?
And so that was kind of the thread he carried throughout life in general, you know?
And so- MXPX?
So in 2003, Josh was a Calvary officer out of Colorado.
And he was like seven years out of West Point at this point.
He was a captain.
And they were deployed to Iraq.
Was it Gulf War?
No, no.
This was when we went into Iraq in 03.