Steve Bunting

And I was like, okay, dude, yes.

Like, all right, you're going to be all right.

You're going to make it.

Yeah.

And for him to pick the Marines, like it's just classic, right?

To go through the life he went through to be a Marine.

It's like, I think they do a great job recruiting Mitch Buntings.

they found one with him they knew exactly what they were looking at and they got it so when did you when did you enlist when did you actually show up and enlist yeah so i ended up enlisting in 2006 so june 2006 and you were how old then yeah i think i was i was uh i graduated i was like 19 19 yep did you know what you wanted to do man i didn't you know i had uh

I had a guy in the trailer park, who's actually the manager of the trailer park, kind of told me one time, because I was obviously interested in the SEALs, right?

They do such a great job of publicity and just kind of recruitment.

And that was something in the back of my head.

But I remember a guy pulled me to the side and he was like, hey, have you ever heard of Force Recon?

And I was like, no, man.

He's like, no one talks about them, but they're badass.

And I kind of mental noted that too.

I was like, huh, I wonder what's up with those Force Recon guys.

But when I started joining, when I was joining the military, I was actually going to join the Marine Corps with my brother.

But that didn't end up working out because, like I said, I was working already.

So I was already out of high school and I was working and he's still in high school and we'd have to go to these like depth meetings.

So before you get in, you know, you have to go to these meetings and kind of they start indoctrinating you there.