Transcript
For me, combat is easy.
The civilian world to me is what was tough.
That's why I, after my first tour in Iraq and then went
to jail and stuff then, yeah, I thought the best thing
for me would be to get back and go to war, so I volunteered
with another unit and went back to Iraq again.
So I was seeking treatment for PTSD
and as things were getting better there, I just decided,
I can't handle it, I'm going back to war.
And so I volunteered to go back to Iraq for a second tour.
The only way I can explain it is, for me, it was easier.
You have a mission, you do your mission, and that's that.
And in the civilian world life's completely opposite,
completely backwards, and it was very difficult
to get into that mode again.
So when you are with all your combat brothers,
you're all getting along, things are great.
And then you get in the civilian world, you get all the,
civilians don't cherish life as much I don't think.
[laughs] They do a lot of dumb things on the freeways,
on the roads, the way they treat people in the grocery stores
and that kind of stuff,
just really gets me upset and irritated.
To me, life is more important than a lot of people act,
so to me it's everyone else is wrong and I'm right [laughs]
but by law you are actually the one who's in the wrong,
so that's tough to get used to.