Steve Bunting

We had a...

A colonel named Colonel Kaufman, who was in charge of the battalion for 1-1, badass dude, was a pilot in Iraq, got shot through and into his jaw and completed the mission like the dude was a legend.

But he pulled us all out onto the deck of the ships and he gave us like a...

uh like a braveheart speech right he's like you are now in syncom this is the super bowl he's like and we're watching this this uh somali ship mothership and skiffs just burning in the background right as we're sitting there at attention and he's just giving this motivational like marine corps speech like only they can it was like yeah it's pretty cool that's awesome man yeah so you come home from that deployment and then what happens yeah so when i came back from that deployment it was uh it was marsoc time

So I came back, kind of cut my teeth there, got to do some, you know, FID work too.

We didn't just stay on the ship there, but got to see a little bit of the world, which I was happy about, which was cool to me, you know, being a little trailer park kid from Alabama, going to Thailand and all this stuff.

So you immediately redeploy with MARSOC?

Yeah.

Well, I went there and I got assigned to a team at MARSOC.

Okay.

Yep.

So I went up the hill on there, still on the same camp now in Camp Pendleton.

And yep, went over there and I check into my first team there.

So how was it checking into a MARSOC element from...

Yeah.

It was a different ball game.

It was a different feel.

They do.

Oh, yeah.

So you're not the new guy.