From Nuclear Security To Scout Sniper Wild Military Stories

They left right after our class. But after that, we did, I did a refuel, defuel, RFDF. We did reran security and ran security for nuclear rod spent and unspent material from, we did that first in Newport News, Virginia. And then we ended up in Kittery, Maine or Portsmouth, New Hampshire up there for a second refuel, defuel later on. After I did a Cuba trip for four months, we did security in Cuba on Gitmo. on the fence line for that, I ran SRG for that. So I was kind of skating pretty hard. Then ended up, so after that, the second refuel, defuel, ended up in the fleet and went to 1.6, about two weeks in on 1.6, ended up in the Stapletoon. Stapletoon sent me to school after that. I think I failed land now the first time. I mean, they paint the sticks brown in the middle of the woods. But anyway, I went back a second time. to go freeze in December for that. I had a good time, had a good group of guys there, great instructors, great instructors. But we did that and then I ended up on a MU after that. I did a MU and we did some reconnaissance off of USS Kearney and to cert Libya as Obama wanted to drop bombs on them. And then we did a lot of reporting on that. Outside of that, I didn't, we were on USS Wasp, spent a lot of time with the recon guys on there because they had a makeshift gym and we were trying not to be in that crowded space on ships. So that's, I mean, that's basically it. I got back and then got out. I tried to reenlist for another two years because I needed a cool off period, but Master Guns didn't want me to do that. He said, I've only been on one deployment, which was, you know, whatever. And we had an exchange of words and then, Yeah, so that didn't happen. I didn't get another two years in and got out, went through a couple of jobs, and here I am now. Another eight years. Real quick, Zeb, can you just double check and make sure that your mic is on your actual mic and not your computer's mic? Yeah, I think you're on your computer's mic because you don't sound bad, but you don't sound as good as you should with an actual. Say that again? Better. Yep. Yeah, there you go. Apologies, apologies. No, that's good. That's good. So for those that don't know, you know, Zeb, you know, going through scout sniper school, that is one of, if not the toughest school in all of the military. It is an extremely tough school to get through. And for that reason, you know, we hold our scout snipers, our stay guys in the highest of regard in the infantry. So I had to teach.