Nate Pontius

So that's what landed me in LA.

Well, it's like you did your job.

You did what we needed of you.

And to be honest, you got to figure out how to use the skills.

That's the thing.

You get a lot of good skills there.

You got to figure out how to use them and transition them into the civilian world.

Take some time.

They're there.

Well, this is something I've spent a good deal of time thinking about and being that you're in the infantry as well, right?

Yep.

Yeah.

I feel like the infantry guys, we have the hardest time with that civilian transition because...

If you think about it, the types of guys who the infantry appeals to, we're not the high honors stud athletes.

We're kind of like the misfits, the knuckleheads.

We don't really have any other options.

So we find ourselves in the infantry.

The infantry kind of forces us to kind of be this best version of ourselves.

And then we go and become a civilian again.

And we've become the best version of ourselves and we no longer have like a mission or a purpose that's going to demand us to be the best version of ourselves anymore.