Steve Bunting

I'm like, no, mom.

okay okay you probably can't tell me yeah she's proud yeah oh she's so proud yeah she's so proud yep how about your brother what did he have to say when he completed it yeah so i kept trying to hit him up and i'm like mitch you need to go recon man like if we're our plan's gonna work you gotta go recon i think once he got through boot camp and got through his infantry training he's like no man he's like this is where it is yeah he's like no i'm good i'm not dealing with that

He was a grunt in the infantry battalion.

And he was like, dude, his idea of like asking for more of that was like psychotic to him, which he's a smarter man than me right at this time.

He's like, but I'm like, dude, you got to go where we're not going to make it together.

Like, I'm never going to be assigned to your team if you don't go to recon.

He's like, you can do that high speed stuff if you want, bro.

He's like, I'm good where I'm at.

And then he ended up going to war right after that.

Wow.

Yeah.

military training programs in the fucking world yeah that's pretty cool i would like to say that i was proud but i wasn't man really yeah for me it was just another thing and for me always back then i had this fear that the other foot was going to drop right i had like severe imposter syndrome just really insecure like i was like dude like okay cool that's i made it past this one but what's the next thing that's going to get me like when's this gravy train going to be over when's everyone everyone going to realize i'm just a trailer park kid

When's everyone going to realize, like, I don't even belong here.

Like, I'm not elite.

I'm not what these people talk about.

I can never be these legends that they tell me about.

Right?

Any minute now, they're going to sniff me out.

And I almost just kind of expected it just not to work out, to be honest with you.

And I think because of that, it robbed me of the joy.