Versus rock show last night was fun, not doing anything tonight since I need to recover from a week of no sleep and too much stuff going on. This weekend will be chill, I hope. Except Easter egg hunt with my nephew on Sunday, that oughta be awesome!
Here is a BUTTLOAD of text -- I tried to chop it down -- this is about half of what's been transcribed thus far (thanks to my brother.) I know it's ridiculous to post this much text but the thing is, I need to let this guy's story be known even if as some think, he is full of shit (I do no tthink so.)
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SEBASTIAN: On July 24th 1978, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps with parents consent.
MIKE: Did it feel good to get away?
SEBASTIAN: It felt really good to get out of the house I was living in. Between the ages of 16 and 17, my father had physically tried to kill me twice. With his hands. The second incident, he was showing me a wrestling move in the living room, mother in the kitchen. And I put him on his back while he was trying to show me this. He had been drinking, and all I remember is I was loosing consciousness. The last thing I remember was my mother yelling "Gabriel, youre going to kill him!" I don't know how long it was before I came back to consciousness, when I had realized that he had tried to kill me. My mother screaming had saved me.
MIKE: The Marine Corps would seem a safe place after that.
SEBASTIAN: At first it was safe, until we went down to Honduras for the war on drugs, the ending of 1983. It was right after Granada, when we went to Granada to get the US citizens out.
MIKE: And you participated in that?
SEBASTIAN: Yes, along with the British.
MIKE: And what was that like?
SEBASTIAN: That was my very first campaign and we were fighting against rebels that had seized control of a U.S. and British citizens compound. They were humanitarians down there and our job was to go down there and get them out. When we finally did reach them...
MIKE: So that seems like something you would believe in
SEBASTIAN: I did believe in it until we got to them. When we finally did reach them we had to force US citizens to leave at gunpoint, they didn't want to leave. That was when I started to question what my government was doing. We were being told that we were down there to make sure that everyone was safe and to get them back home but forcing them at gunpoint questioned all of that.
MIKE: Did you have to kill anyone in that (campaign)?
SEBASTIAN: Yeah, I watched 17 men die when we hit that beach, 7 Marines and 10 British guys. That was my first campaign and my very first kill was from 1300 meters and right after that I started drinking.
MIKE: You hadn't drank before?
SEBASTIAN: No, I had no drug history at all. I hadn't even tried the goodie bag yet. Right when it was over I picked up a beer.
MIKE: Had you consciously not drank cause your dad drank so much?
SEBASTIAN: Right, I made a decision from very early on that I wasn't going to drink like my father.
MIKE: It sounds to me like, with what you were asked to do, how could you not do something to deaden it? And yet it doesn't sound like it was ever hard to find something to help get you out of your head.
SEBASTIAN: It was never tough to find it. It was always onboard ship, it was always in my platoon, and if it wasn't in my platoon it was in the next platoon. It was always there.
MIKE: So it would appear that, officially or unofficially, this is considered as important a daily staple as anything. Was this available for everyone or just your type of work?
SEBASTIAN: It was for the combat soldier. They give it to fighter pilots too. This is the pharmaceutical speed; they say for the pilots it is to help them adjust to the G forces they are pulling. They always issue it out according to the weight of the man. And it's abused.
MIKE: Do you remember what it is? Is it meth or?
SEBASTIAN: It's black beauties, yeah. A little black pill that gets you really spun out.
MIKE: I know from abusing things kinda like that, that especially if you do it quite a bit, you fucking loose it, get psychotic and shit.
SEBASTIAN: It happened to a lot of guys; they abused it. I watched guys blow their brains out because they couldn't take it anymore, in the field. I watched guys kill women and children and rape women.
MIKE: Where was that? When was that?
SEBASTIAN: That happened when we stormed Kuwait in the desert, and it happened in Sarajevo. I watched older veterans abuse their American It seemed to me that the older vets were teaching the younger guys how to be a soldier. And they emphasized the drug use and the alcohol.
MIKE: In what way? They told them this is--
SEBASTIAN: This is what we do. This is what Marines do. We drink and we fight but out there in the field they say we drug and drink and fight.
MIKE: So as long as you are within a certain framework you get away with it.
SEBASTIAN: So long as we do our job.
MIKE: Sounds like you did your job pretty well, and you saw a lot of combat.
SEBASTIAN: I did my job very well. And I did see combat -- from 1979 to 1994 I went through Beirut, Granada, Honduras, Sandinista, Contra, Panama, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Desert Storm, during the Reagan, Carter and Clinton administrations. Not one campaign was anything like Vietnam, but the damage done to myself and other guys was horrendous, horrific.
MIKE: Well perhaps the only reason it wasn't like Vietnam is cause not as many people were involved. In a way it sounds like you guys had to go through maybe even more because you had to do so much. And in some ways clandestinely, like in Central and South America. Most people weren't really aware what you were doing, right?
SEBASTIAN: We were definitely told we couldn't talk about the war on drugs or what we did down there.
MIKE: What did you do down there?
SEBASTIAN: Our initial contact with the Columbian drug cartel was to seize control of the cocaine dens; we blew up a few. There were hundreds.
MIKE: Was this like the Medellin (cartel)?
SEBASTIAN: Yes. But the thing I want to talk about is in 1983, it was November of 1983, on the nationally syndicated program 20/20, the CIA openly admitted that we were bringing crack cocaine into this country to fund the Sandinista and contra war. I finally realized that we were down there fighting for Uncle Sam's drugs. And that changed my whole tune. (Back then) I had a wife and a child and was a full blown alcoholic and I didn't know how to do anything else.
MIKE: You witnessed some atrocities committed in the first Desert Storm and then you testified, correct?
SEBASTIAN: After we seized Kuwait, we were the Marines who stormed Kuwait, the fifth Marine division. We were first in and we had seized the compound and we had seized Kuwaiti men and women, and disarmed them. Our job was to go around to every house and check for weapons. During that process there was a lot of drinking going on, and I was with 9 guys out of my platoon. I was the youngest one, at 33 yrs old. Seven of 'em were Vietnam veterans.
I had noticed right away when these men were assigned to my platoon that they were older, and that they were more dangerous than the Kuwaitis. The abuse was escalating all through the day, the drinking was escalating, the abuse on children, they were throwing the kids around. We were supposed to make sure nobody was armed, even the kids. And the way they were treating the kids and the women they were enjoying what they were doing, and they were abusing their powers. And these guys were American soldiers.
In the end of that day I watched them shoot a Kuwaiti woman in the head and rape her dead body. I tried to stop it and all I got was my ass beat. And all I did was drink beer and witness it. And when it was over, the day is still a blur but I remember every bit of it, I didn't say nothing to nobody. There were guys saying, "Oh Branno's just fucked up; he's been drinking too much and he's been doing too much shit." I just wasn't talking to anybody after that. We were only there 9 days after that and then we were shipped back home.
MIKE: Were you worried that they thought you would talk?
SEBASTIAN: No, they warned me that if I said anything they would take care of me, which meant that they would kill me. I was in fear after that of not only the enemy but the guys in my platoon. I wasn't home long before the judge advocate investigator came and found me.
A little girl who was hiding that day that nobody saw had seen the whole thing too. And she managed to tell the investigator how my name was written and they tracked me down. You know, as soon as they found me, I broke down and told them because I couldn't keep it in anymore. Cause it was going to kill me. I told them what happened, and they arrested the men. They tried them under the UCMJ war crimes and they made me testify against them. Without my testimony it was no good. But I did testify against them. I was breaking the code of silence, which is very strong.
MIKE: That was very brave of you man
SEBASTIAN: At the same time it destroyed my life.
MIKE: I imagine it would have destroyed your life even more if you didn't do anything.
SEBASTIAN: I would probably be dead right now cause I wouldn't be able to live with it.
MIKE: Which is probably why you saw these other people take their own lives
SEBASTIAN: Because guys couldn't live with what they were doing.
MIKE: So then what happened?
SEBASTIAN: Five of them received life sentences, one of them blew his brains out, and one of them is out right now. I have received death threats from their families, two of them, that they were going to find me and kill me.
MIKE: How did they reach you?
SEBASTIAN: After the testimony I went to the bar and drank because of the guilt that I was feeling and then it was hours before my discharge, what was to be an honorable discharge. I was waiting for my separation papers and I was in the bar and I was really drunk. The MPs came. The commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Guildroro wanted me in his office, which I thought was for my papers. I was the drunkest I had ever been in my life. I don't even remember how much I had consumed that day. The MPs took me to his office and he proceeded to ream my ass out about being wrong testifying against soldiers in my platoon was, about how men do that during war. And like I said I was drunk. And at that time in my life when I was drunk and someone questioned my morals, I was gonna die for 'em. Basically what I did, I ended up beating the shit out of him in a drunken rage.
MIKE: Do you think he was sort of taunting you?
SEBASTIAN: He was taunting me. I know that now, I know that now. I didn't realize it then.
MIKE: So what happened next?
SEBASTIAN: The next thing I knew I was being arrested and thrown in the brig for assaulting the commanding officer. It is a very heavy offense, it is punishable by federal prison and either a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable one. And I did receive a 2 year sentence at Leavenworth federal penitentiary. I did 18 months of the 2 year sentence. I received a bad conduct discharge and I was busted all the way down to private. I lost my G.I. bill. I lost everything and destroyed my life; it always popped up on an application in the future.
MIKE: That's a felony right?
SEBASTIAN: Yeah, it's a felony. I don't have any regrets. The only regret I have is that I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I have had other people ask me recently, Why did you go up to the marines? I have had people tell me Marine Corps? Brutal. And I never knew that it could be so fucked up.
MIKE: Now please explain in detail, with your history, why they want you back in the military, and everything going on now.
SEBASTIAN: One of the things that I have been aware of since I have been released from Leavenworth in 1995 is that I have been meeting a lot of veterans. I got clean and sober in A.A. because I was drinking on my federal parole in NYC and was living in the tunnels under the subway. Theyve got a whole different community down there. And a lot of em are veterans. I mean people go down there and they never come back out. I was down there I was drinking, and I was killing myself. Other veterans were telling me that you need to get out of here and youre not like us, you dont belong here.
One day after about five months of being down in this hell hole, these two guys came up to me and they pulled the bottle out of my hand and told me to get up. At first I thought that they were going to try to do something to me. And everybody had a certain way in and out of there. The old pirate guy, his name was Bob, he said Come on. I was walking between the two guys and they walked me out and they looked at me and said You need to get out of here, you dont belong down here, you are not like us, you need to go somewhere and get sober. Those two guys saved my life. And what I did is I left there and I was walking around in the village and I came to West Houston. And there was a bunch of people standing outside and it was 2 oclock in the morning. I was in bad shape. I was in really bad shape. I was walking by and I was so ashamed of the way I was looking and I was DTing, you know I was completely broken. One guy said Hey and I couldnt even look up at him. And he walked over and put his arm around me. And the guy turned out to be my sponsor, Jay. He was a Vietnam vet. And he helped me get sober.
MIKE: So did he take you to a meeting right then?
SEBASTIAN: He took me inside and home to his wife. I stayed with him for about the first two years of my sobriety. Then when I was coming up on my third yearit took me a while to do these steps in this AA programI was coming up on my fourth step and I told him my story and he looked at me and said that I had 14 years of impeccable service and that I went through all that shit, and they werent doing anything for me!? He was the one who helped me initiate my claim with the Marine Corps. And my only thing right now is they want to see me dead because of what I did. I am being set up again.
MIKE: So what was your claim like? What was that about?
SEBASTIAN: Well first I had to write my congressman, I had to present my case. That was the initial step. I did that in New York. Then I had to go to a place called Swords Into Ploughshares that was working with vets, and tell them what happened. And they had to start gathering evidence. As soon as I told them what happened, they were like Jesus Christ, man! they have got to give you something. So we did the proper thing right through the chain of command. I wrote to my congressman, I filed my claim, I told them everything that happened. And its taken three years and eight months since then. And I talked to my V.A. representative down in San Francisco two weeks ago, who has been on this thing for me for almost four years now, and he told me that in April 26th my discharge will be upgraded to an honorable discharge and that everything is retroactive that I will be getting $1275 a month for the rest of my life. My G.I. bill will be 97 percent everything, my medical, my dental, home loans, school, whatever I want. Then I talked to him two days ago and he told me that theyre pulling me back in and he doesnt know whats going on.
MIKE: How can they pull you back in? How can that be possible?
SEBASTIAN: One, that I am a specialist, and that they do do that, I am aware that they do it because they did it when we go through the combat. They were pulling older veterans back in to help the younger guys adjust. And if you were a specialist then you are able to train guys. (Side A of tape ends more to come)
Here is a BUTTLOAD of text -- I tried to chop it down -- this is about half of what's been transcribed thus far (thanks to my brother.) I know it's ridiculous to post this much text but the thing is, I need to let this guy's story be known even if as some think, he is full of shit (I do no tthink so.)
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SEBASTIAN: On July 24th 1978, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps with parents consent.
MIKE: Did it feel good to get away?
SEBASTIAN: It felt really good to get out of the house I was living in. Between the ages of 16 and 17, my father had physically tried to kill me twice. With his hands. The second incident, he was showing me a wrestling move in the living room, mother in the kitchen. And I put him on his back while he was trying to show me this. He had been drinking, and all I remember is I was loosing consciousness. The last thing I remember was my mother yelling "Gabriel, youre going to kill him!" I don't know how long it was before I came back to consciousness, when I had realized that he had tried to kill me. My mother screaming had saved me.
MIKE: The Marine Corps would seem a safe place after that.
SEBASTIAN: At first it was safe, until we went down to Honduras for the war on drugs, the ending of 1983. It was right after Granada, when we went to Granada to get the US citizens out.
MIKE: And you participated in that?
SEBASTIAN: Yes, along with the British.
MIKE: And what was that like?
SEBASTIAN: That was my very first campaign and we were fighting against rebels that had seized control of a U.S. and British citizens compound. They were humanitarians down there and our job was to go down there and get them out. When we finally did reach them...
MIKE: So that seems like something you would believe in
SEBASTIAN: I did believe in it until we got to them. When we finally did reach them we had to force US citizens to leave at gunpoint, they didn't want to leave. That was when I started to question what my government was doing. We were being told that we were down there to make sure that everyone was safe and to get them back home but forcing them at gunpoint questioned all of that.
MIKE: Did you have to kill anyone in that (campaign)?
SEBASTIAN: Yeah, I watched 17 men die when we hit that beach, 7 Marines and 10 British guys. That was my first campaign and my very first kill was from 1300 meters and right after that I started drinking.
MIKE: You hadn't drank before?
SEBASTIAN: No, I had no drug history at all. I hadn't even tried the goodie bag yet. Right when it was over I picked up a beer.
MIKE: Had you consciously not drank cause your dad drank so much?
SEBASTIAN: Right, I made a decision from very early on that I wasn't going to drink like my father.
MIKE: It sounds to me like, with what you were asked to do, how could you not do something to deaden it? And yet it doesn't sound like it was ever hard to find something to help get you out of your head.
SEBASTIAN: It was never tough to find it. It was always onboard ship, it was always in my platoon, and if it wasn't in my platoon it was in the next platoon. It was always there.
MIKE: So it would appear that, officially or unofficially, this is considered as important a daily staple as anything. Was this available for everyone or just your type of work?
SEBASTIAN: It was for the combat soldier. They give it to fighter pilots too. This is the pharmaceutical speed; they say for the pilots it is to help them adjust to the G forces they are pulling. They always issue it out according to the weight of the man. And it's abused.
MIKE: Do you remember what it is? Is it meth or?
SEBASTIAN: It's black beauties, yeah. A little black pill that gets you really spun out.
MIKE: I know from abusing things kinda like that, that especially if you do it quite a bit, you fucking loose it, get psychotic and shit.
SEBASTIAN: It happened to a lot of guys; they abused it. I watched guys blow their brains out because they couldn't take it anymore, in the field. I watched guys kill women and children and rape women.
MIKE: Where was that? When was that?
SEBASTIAN: That happened when we stormed Kuwait in the desert, and it happened in Sarajevo. I watched older veterans abuse their American It seemed to me that the older vets were teaching the younger guys how to be a soldier. And they emphasized the drug use and the alcohol.
MIKE: In what way? They told them this is--
SEBASTIAN: This is what we do. This is what Marines do. We drink and we fight but out there in the field they say we drug and drink and fight.
MIKE: So as long as you are within a certain framework you get away with it.
SEBASTIAN: So long as we do our job.
MIKE: Sounds like you did your job pretty well, and you saw a lot of combat.
SEBASTIAN: I did my job very well. And I did see combat -- from 1979 to 1994 I went through Beirut, Granada, Honduras, Sandinista, Contra, Panama, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Desert Storm, during the Reagan, Carter and Clinton administrations. Not one campaign was anything like Vietnam, but the damage done to myself and other guys was horrendous, horrific.
MIKE: Well perhaps the only reason it wasn't like Vietnam is cause not as many people were involved. In a way it sounds like you guys had to go through maybe even more because you had to do so much. And in some ways clandestinely, like in Central and South America. Most people weren't really aware what you were doing, right?
SEBASTIAN: We were definitely told we couldn't talk about the war on drugs or what we did down there.
MIKE: What did you do down there?
SEBASTIAN: Our initial contact with the Columbian drug cartel was to seize control of the cocaine dens; we blew up a few. There were hundreds.
MIKE: Was this like the Medellin (cartel)?
SEBASTIAN: Yes. But the thing I want to talk about is in 1983, it was November of 1983, on the nationally syndicated program 20/20, the CIA openly admitted that we were bringing crack cocaine into this country to fund the Sandinista and contra war. I finally realized that we were down there fighting for Uncle Sam's drugs. And that changed my whole tune. (Back then) I had a wife and a child and was a full blown alcoholic and I didn't know how to do anything else.
MIKE: You witnessed some atrocities committed in the first Desert Storm and then you testified, correct?
SEBASTIAN: After we seized Kuwait, we were the Marines who stormed Kuwait, the fifth Marine division. We were first in and we had seized the compound and we had seized Kuwaiti men and women, and disarmed them. Our job was to go around to every house and check for weapons. During that process there was a lot of drinking going on, and I was with 9 guys out of my platoon. I was the youngest one, at 33 yrs old. Seven of 'em were Vietnam veterans.
I had noticed right away when these men were assigned to my platoon that they were older, and that they were more dangerous than the Kuwaitis. The abuse was escalating all through the day, the drinking was escalating, the abuse on children, they were throwing the kids around. We were supposed to make sure nobody was armed, even the kids. And the way they were treating the kids and the women they were enjoying what they were doing, and they were abusing their powers. And these guys were American soldiers.
In the end of that day I watched them shoot a Kuwaiti woman in the head and rape her dead body. I tried to stop it and all I got was my ass beat. And all I did was drink beer and witness it. And when it was over, the day is still a blur but I remember every bit of it, I didn't say nothing to nobody. There were guys saying, "Oh Branno's just fucked up; he's been drinking too much and he's been doing too much shit." I just wasn't talking to anybody after that. We were only there 9 days after that and then we were shipped back home.
MIKE: Were you worried that they thought you would talk?
SEBASTIAN: No, they warned me that if I said anything they would take care of me, which meant that they would kill me. I was in fear after that of not only the enemy but the guys in my platoon. I wasn't home long before the judge advocate investigator came and found me.
A little girl who was hiding that day that nobody saw had seen the whole thing too. And she managed to tell the investigator how my name was written and they tracked me down. You know, as soon as they found me, I broke down and told them because I couldn't keep it in anymore. Cause it was going to kill me. I told them what happened, and they arrested the men. They tried them under the UCMJ war crimes and they made me testify against them. Without my testimony it was no good. But I did testify against them. I was breaking the code of silence, which is very strong.
MIKE: That was very brave of you man
SEBASTIAN: At the same time it destroyed my life.
MIKE: I imagine it would have destroyed your life even more if you didn't do anything.
SEBASTIAN: I would probably be dead right now cause I wouldn't be able to live with it.
MIKE: Which is probably why you saw these other people take their own lives
SEBASTIAN: Because guys couldn't live with what they were doing.
MIKE: So then what happened?
SEBASTIAN: Five of them received life sentences, one of them blew his brains out, and one of them is out right now. I have received death threats from their families, two of them, that they were going to find me and kill me.
MIKE: How did they reach you?
SEBASTIAN: After the testimony I went to the bar and drank because of the guilt that I was feeling and then it was hours before my discharge, what was to be an honorable discharge. I was waiting for my separation papers and I was in the bar and I was really drunk. The MPs came. The commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Guildroro wanted me in his office, which I thought was for my papers. I was the drunkest I had ever been in my life. I don't even remember how much I had consumed that day. The MPs took me to his office and he proceeded to ream my ass out about being wrong testifying against soldiers in my platoon was, about how men do that during war. And like I said I was drunk. And at that time in my life when I was drunk and someone questioned my morals, I was gonna die for 'em. Basically what I did, I ended up beating the shit out of him in a drunken rage.
MIKE: Do you think he was sort of taunting you?
SEBASTIAN: He was taunting me. I know that now, I know that now. I didn't realize it then.
MIKE: So what happened next?
SEBASTIAN: The next thing I knew I was being arrested and thrown in the brig for assaulting the commanding officer. It is a very heavy offense, it is punishable by federal prison and either a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable one. And I did receive a 2 year sentence at Leavenworth federal penitentiary. I did 18 months of the 2 year sentence. I received a bad conduct discharge and I was busted all the way down to private. I lost my G.I. bill. I lost everything and destroyed my life; it always popped up on an application in the future.
MIKE: That's a felony right?
SEBASTIAN: Yeah, it's a felony. I don't have any regrets. The only regret I have is that I enlisted in the Marine Corps. I have had other people ask me recently, Why did you go up to the marines? I have had people tell me Marine Corps? Brutal. And I never knew that it could be so fucked up.
MIKE: Now please explain in detail, with your history, why they want you back in the military, and everything going on now.
SEBASTIAN: One of the things that I have been aware of since I have been released from Leavenworth in 1995 is that I have been meeting a lot of veterans. I got clean and sober in A.A. because I was drinking on my federal parole in NYC and was living in the tunnels under the subway. Theyve got a whole different community down there. And a lot of em are veterans. I mean people go down there and they never come back out. I was down there I was drinking, and I was killing myself. Other veterans were telling me that you need to get out of here and youre not like us, you dont belong here.
One day after about five months of being down in this hell hole, these two guys came up to me and they pulled the bottle out of my hand and told me to get up. At first I thought that they were going to try to do something to me. And everybody had a certain way in and out of there. The old pirate guy, his name was Bob, he said Come on. I was walking between the two guys and they walked me out and they looked at me and said You need to get out of here, you dont belong down here, you are not like us, you need to go somewhere and get sober. Those two guys saved my life. And what I did is I left there and I was walking around in the village and I came to West Houston. And there was a bunch of people standing outside and it was 2 oclock in the morning. I was in bad shape. I was in really bad shape. I was walking by and I was so ashamed of the way I was looking and I was DTing, you know I was completely broken. One guy said Hey and I couldnt even look up at him. And he walked over and put his arm around me. And the guy turned out to be my sponsor, Jay. He was a Vietnam vet. And he helped me get sober.
MIKE: So did he take you to a meeting right then?
SEBASTIAN: He took me inside and home to his wife. I stayed with him for about the first two years of my sobriety. Then when I was coming up on my third yearit took me a while to do these steps in this AA programI was coming up on my fourth step and I told him my story and he looked at me and said that I had 14 years of impeccable service and that I went through all that shit, and they werent doing anything for me!? He was the one who helped me initiate my claim with the Marine Corps. And my only thing right now is they want to see me dead because of what I did. I am being set up again.
MIKE: So what was your claim like? What was that about?
SEBASTIAN: Well first I had to write my congressman, I had to present my case. That was the initial step. I did that in New York. Then I had to go to a place called Swords Into Ploughshares that was working with vets, and tell them what happened. And they had to start gathering evidence. As soon as I told them what happened, they were like Jesus Christ, man! they have got to give you something. So we did the proper thing right through the chain of command. I wrote to my congressman, I filed my claim, I told them everything that happened. And its taken three years and eight months since then. And I talked to my V.A. representative down in San Francisco two weeks ago, who has been on this thing for me for almost four years now, and he told me that in April 26th my discharge will be upgraded to an honorable discharge and that everything is retroactive that I will be getting $1275 a month for the rest of my life. My G.I. bill will be 97 percent everything, my medical, my dental, home loans, school, whatever I want. Then I talked to him two days ago and he told me that theyre pulling me back in and he doesnt know whats going on.
MIKE: How can they pull you back in? How can that be possible?
SEBASTIAN: One, that I am a specialist, and that they do do that, I am aware that they do it because they did it when we go through the combat. They were pulling older veterans back in to help the younger guys adjust. And if you were a specialist then you are able to train guys. (Side A of tape ends more to come)
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Thank you very much for emailing this to me. I'm gonna read it a little later with fresh eyes and a less agitated brain.