Travis Pastrana

When I was in, I was on the Mark 5s.

So the lineage from where they started to where they were.

And he...

Maybe regretfully so was the first person that had ever mentioned the word SEAL to me.

He wasn't a SEAL, but they were in an insertion and an extraction platform.

And it hooked me right from the beginning.

But growing up, never talked about his time in Vietnam.

We moved to Montana.

We were living down in Missoula when I was very young.

I remember that it snowed and I got in trouble for throwing snowballs at cars, which is what young men should be doing, honestly.

Don't put a rock in the middle of it, but yeah, plaster your neighbor's cars.

And I remember one time he was, sorry, dad, out in the backyard in the snow and just as tidy whitey, just yelling.

What are you doing?

And come to find out, the reason that we live there is my mom gave him an ultimatum.

And she basically said, you need to get your shit together.

I'm taking the kids and leaving.

And he had...

As most people from Vietnam, they didn't get the welcome home that my generation of people in the military have, which an argument could be made that that has gone even just too far with the welcome home and the pedestal that sometimes people are put on.

But his was the exact opposite of that.

So I never –