Can you talk about the day you got shot and what happened, what you learned and how you had to

really fight pretty hard to even come back? Yeah, I mean, it's far less of a Hollywood tale than

most people might think. We were working for weeks before that evening and everything had

pretty much gone as planned before then. There was nothing particularly amazing about the target

that we were going on or the people that we were looking for. And nothing happened that night

leading up to it that seemed incredibly abnormal. So I equated to going to places like Las Vegas

where you watch somebody playing crafts and they're rolling the right number after the right number

after the right number. All the casino really needs to do is keep you in that building for long

enough and at some point you're going to throw seven and you're going to crap out.

Statistically, in a combat occupation where you're facing up against other human beings that

have a vote and they can shoot back at you, I think at some point, you know, you're going to reach

a statistical point where you're on the wrong side of the dice. And I thought a lot about

in the days after I got shot whether or not I had done something wrong or if I had been in a

position where I shouldn't have been or maybe I made too much noise. And the reality is I didn't.

I was using cover and concealment. I happened to turn my head. I was basically approaching a door

and we were going to set a breaching charge on a door and I was, you know, as somebody is placing

explosives on a door, you're going to have somebody up there with with them with a gun because

their hands are task occupied with their explosive charge. But there was a door behind me and

or a window behind me and before I was going to turn my back to it, I wanted to look in it and as I

shifted my head, somebody shot at me from a window near the door and it came down to they saw me

before I saw them. They were able to shoot before I was able to shoot back and it literally and

figuratively slammed me on my back. I was medevacked out of the country within 48 hours. I was

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