Steve Bunting

It was just very loving.

They had resources that my mom didn't.

So we were like, for the first time, we didn't have to just eat free lunch.

I wasn't just eating a square pizza and, you know, milk every day.

Like my grandpa would give me five bucks heading out the door.

Oftentimes I'd probably start piloting by weed with it, to be honest with you.

But it was different, man.

Yeah, it was different.

You know, just started to get a little bit of pride.

I remember I started ironing my clothes there and like, it was just, it was more stable for sure.

Yeah.

So really quickly in the Navy, they start kind of isolating the dudes.

And I remember like even in boot camp, they pulled us aside and they started showing us frogman videos, right?

And EOD videos and stuff.

And I'm like, who wants to do this stuff?

I'm like, dude, I do.

I raised my hand and, you know, I was like looking around thinking everyone, like asking all of us dudes.

And I'm like, yeah, I want to do it.

And I'm looking around like everyone's just kind of sitting there.

I'm like...