Shawn Ryan

I dropped to my knees right there in the village.

And, uh,

Realized and then heard the stories later from the villagers that all that boy wanted me to do was get his dad out of the weapons arms Fucking whatever that was He was ashamed of his dad And he was

Because of this fucked up super sense of justice, this ancestral curse, maybe, to go so far above

I didn't tell anybody about this except a couple very tight dudes.

Determined that it was a good shoot.

Fuck whatever that means.

And I wanted to quit like I've never wanted to quit in my life.

First duffel bag I picked up, a friend of mine from Fort Bragg.

He went, um... Sorry.

It's okay.

He went about 30 days, you know, before me.

And, you know, just disappeared.

Nobody knew where he went, what assignment he got when he got there.

He just went into a black hole.

And, you know, so he's been there 30 days, and I'm inventorying his personal effects to send back to his family.

And... Sog got real...

So I did that, went and linked up with a team and went to work.

Started training with the team because we had a mission coming up in a few days.

Trying to learn everything I could before we went out.