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The sanitation in Iraq isn't the best
and so everybody burns a lot of trash
and you burn a lot of plastic.
I could remember in Tennessee driving and there was a burn pit
out behind somebody's house.
And all of a sudden I started smelling the burning plastic,
the burning garbage and it was hot outside
and while driving it immediately took me back to walking
down the streets of Baghdad or riding on a vehicle in Baghdad.
And probably for a good two minutes I was back
in Iraq driving on the road and started looking
for threats from all directions.
My adrenaline just spiked.
And when you're used to that and you can control it,
that's one thing but when you're heading out to the store
and buy steaks for dinner and the adrenaline spikes,
all of a sudden I'm looking for threats
in all directions just waiting to get hit.
And I literally had to like pull over and talk myself down out
of it and just kind of take some deep breaths,
take a drink of water.
Eventually I got over it but yeah,
the smell immediately triggered that.