WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.880 Multiple people in my family clean my father are veterans. 2 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:11.080 Troops that have been to war and now they're back. 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.679 And think and be grateful for their service. 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.600 Sacrifice, love for their country, just unselfishness, all. 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:18.640 That they do for us. 6 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:22.120 There are some people in this country who take extraordinary 7 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:25.039 steps to provide for the freedom and security. 8 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:26.760 We forget that those people exist. 9 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:30.679 We know them as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, 10 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:37.719 and Coast Guard. They call themselves soldiers, seals, rangers, airmen, sailors, 11 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:44.119 devil dogs, and so much more. We call them fathers, brothers, 12 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:49.640 sons and husbands, mothers, daughters, sisters and wives. We call 13 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.880 them friend and neighbor. These veterans answered the call. Now 14 00:00:55.479 --> 00:01:01.719 we answer theirs, and they are the best our country 15 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:02.679 has to offer. 16 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:03.679 And we love them. 17 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:12.599 Today, we honor them and we serve them. David Malsby 18 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:16.280 is your host, and he welcomes you to this community 19 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:22.000 of veterans, as together we are building the road to hope. 20 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.040 And glad to have you along on this Sunday afternoon 21 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:27.239 on a KPRC the nine to five oh and the AMD. 22 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.079 I'll thank you for joining us as you drive around 23 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.599 endlessly on Loop six' ten or The Boat way or 24 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.920 The grand Park, way. Whichever when you Use glad to 25 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:37.760 have you along those of you listen through The magic, 26 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.239 podcast thank you for. Listening and you can listen wherever 27 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.239 you listen to. Podcasts just look For road To Hope. 28 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:47.439 Radio there we. Are it's all. 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Years AND i Graduated Camp hope In april 68 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:16.519 of twenty twenty, one and so this is my graduation 69 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:18.800 month and my four years of working At Camp. 70 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:20.439 Hope AND i love WHAT i. 71 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.040 DO i love everything About Camp hope and THE Ptsd 72 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.439 foundation Of. America i'm From, Houston, texas. 73 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:31.680 And congratulations four. Years that's. Awesome Fort, riley that's got 74 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:36.319 to be one of the the not top ten places 75 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.600 anybody wants to, go, Right that's What that's what most 76 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.639 people told me WHEN i was In. Korea that was 77 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:44.959 my first duty station. 78 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.959 With korea in two thousand and, five two thousand and, 79 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.680 six AND i had got orders BECAUSE i didn't. DECIDE 80 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.120 i didn't really move fast enough on DECIDING i want 81 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.040 to go To Fort benning OR i want to go To. 82 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:59.399 Hawaii that's what a lot of people are say In. 83 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.560 Hawaii, yes twenty FIFTH id was out, there and that's 84 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:04.920 what a lot of people like to go out there 85 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.759 because Of. Hawaii BUT i didn't do that fast, enough 86 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.399 and THEY i got orders For, Raley, kansas and they 87 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:12.279 were telling. 88 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:16.040 Me, oh, man but coming from a long were you? 89 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:19.439 THERE i was there two thousand and six all the 90 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:23.639 way until twenty eleven WHEN i got an honorable discharge 91 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:23.879 out of the. 92 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.319 Army but most of the TIME i was In. 93 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:28.519 Iraq though most of the TIME i was we were 94 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.839 getting ready to deploy or we were deployed WHILE i was. 95 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:35.160 There but the TIMES i, wasn't it was it was 96 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:38.160 okay because you, know most of my families From, arkansas 97 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.000 and being from the, CITY i kind of liked to 98 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:44.199 get out of the city a lot of, times and just. 99 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:48.360 Being out of the, city not a lot of entertainment 100 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:51.639 choices around, there not really not, really you, know you, 101 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.360 KNOW i LIKE, Nascar so we went to we got 102 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:57.000 a chance to go to The Kansas Motor, Speedways so 103 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.160 there you. Go that was very cool to do that 104 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.920 In Kansas. City you have pretty good. Barbecue, yeah you're 105 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.800 not too far From, kansas not too. Far, yeah Although 106 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.920 i'm not sure about their. BARBECUE i guess it. 107 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Was it was. 108 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.800 Edible, yeah put enough sauce on, it you can eat. It, 109 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:18.959 yes that's. Funny, Yeah i'm glad to have you back 110 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.759 In houston with the barbecues. Definitely, YEAH i don't have 111 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:26.000 to have sauce to eat, it, right you're right about. 112 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.759 That we also have a veteran that's in our program 113 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:33.040 currently At Camp, hope which is our interim residential program 114 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.839 for veterans dealing with combat related TO. Ptsd want a quick. 115 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:38.360 Introduction who you, are where you're. 116 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:44.000 From, yeah my Name's Benny saban From, Hayward. Wisconsin it 117 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:47.279 was with The United States navy boord the USS Cre 118 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:51.360 sarge and also did two years with The Army National 119 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:54.040 guard out Of heyward seven twenty Fourth Fordsport. 120 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.759 Company we've had a few guys that have done multiple. 121 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:00.480 Branches it's been in a while so as we've had 122 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.279 one on the, show so good to get into that 123 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.000 a little. Bit where are you? 124 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.920 From Originally, Hayward, Wisconsin. 125 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:10.759 WISCONSIN i hear a little bit of that. There, yeah 126 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:11.680 just a Little. 127 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:13.199 Yeah we talked to our nose every now and. 128 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:18.879 Then it's the accent, though it. Cancer, yeah it's like la. Yeah. 129 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.279 Yeah we were talking earlier and getting to know you 130 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.079 tell me about the different lakes up, there and it 131 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.839 was a pretty good. Conversation it's too, cold it's too 132 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:32.560 hot In. Texas, SEE i will take the heat over the, 133 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:38.160 cold and the heat's. Uncomfortable cold hurts the older you. Get, 134 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.199 yeah you'll figure it out sooner or. Later all, right 135 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.040 we'll get into a little bit of his story and 136 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.519 a little more adjustins as we go along the. Way 137 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:49.439 this Is road To, hope, right we'll be right. 138 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:56.560 Back who drops the crowd and the place so, loud, 139 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.839 baby it's, like get. 140 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:14.720 Out, man and we welcome you back To road To Hope. 141 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.720 Radio glad to have you. Along god JUSTIN I State's ARMY. 142 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.519 Vet four years Of Camp. Hope that's, awesome, Man that 143 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:24.079 just that makes me, happy just makes me and to 144 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:28.160 think of all the change that's transpired in your. Life H, 145 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.560 yeah it's just it's a reminder it can work if 146 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:36.360 you work it just, Sir, YEAH i JUST i worked over. 147 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:37.279 Weekend do to you this. 148 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.360 Weekend it's like everything happened according to How god wants 149 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.679 it to. Happen AND i think that's the biggest THING 150 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:45.879 i had to, understand and coming To Camp hope helped 151 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:46.519 me understand. 152 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:50.320 That like. ACCEPTANCE i didn't even realize THAT i was 153 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.080 the way THAT i was UNTIL i got The Camp. 154 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.159 Hope like talking to counselors about fear and this fear 155 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.120 based and as you're trying to control. SITUATION i was, 156 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.559 LIKE i THOUGHT i was far from. That but THEN 157 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:04.399 i started. 158 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.879 Realizing more THAN i need to give up the control 159 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:10.600 and trust in The. Lord and in the past four 160 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:11.399 years a lot has. 161 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.600 Happened, yeah very positive changes In justin's. Life it's. Outstanding 162 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.440 happy for. You we've also got Ben United States navy 163 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:25.840 And United States army veteran uh So wisconsin where it's 164 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:31.879 way too. Cold we've already established. That did you go 165 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:33.639 into The navy right out of high school or was? 166 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.399 There, yeah we started the process WHILE i was a, 167 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:40.159 senior directly after nine to, eleven and then it. 168 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.879 Was a nine to eleven kind of a motivator for 169 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:44.679 that or not really quite a. 170 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.360 Bit AND i wasn't sure about college at the. Time 171 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.080 that's the next best bat BEFORE i got in too much. 172 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:55.080 Trouble that can, happen you know that age. Happen no clear. 173 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:59.679 Direction why did you choose The? Navy, actually my grandfather 174 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.559 was Uh, navy SO i followed in his. Footsteps, really 175 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:08.080 he was In World War? Two, okay do you don't 176 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.559 know where he? SERVED i DON'T i know he was cook. 177 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:19.720 Nice he Was atlantic, side so he's east. Back he 178 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.759 never had any combat or any submarine problems. 179 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.960 Or anything like. That that's about ALL i. Know, yeah 180 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:25.960 he didn't talk much about. 181 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:28.720 It shouldn't none of them ever. Did, yeah it wasn't 182 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:32.519 there a, thing all. Right so you served how four? 183 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:37.360 Years four Years navy and THEN i got out AND 184 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.399 i was actually roughly nine months LATER i was recalled 185 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:48.080 by The, navy BUT i found out about The Bludha green. 186 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.799 PROGRAM i didn't want to go back because WHILE i 187 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.759 was in The, NAVY i was doing a lot of 188 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.759 search and seizures when we were In columbia and things like, 189 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:02.679 that drug, Raides SO i kind of wanted to stay 190 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:04.120 in them. Lines BUT i knew IF i went back 191 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.440 there just bring me back to be an elevator. Electrician 192 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:09.120 SO i switched to The, army which is blue to, 193 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.320 green and they made me a water purification. 194 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:17.279 Specialist that sounds. Fun oh, yeah that was. 195 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:17.799 Interesting. 196 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:21.480 Yeah so where all were you? Deployed you Mentioned columbia 197 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:23.240 during The, Navy. 198 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:29.120 SO i was, Golf, Iraq, Maraine, panama did a little 199 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:34.720 bit of Around, africa was never in, country and then 200 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:40.480 north Of South america in The, atlantic So, Columbia, cuba 201 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.320 and then we did a lot of search and seizure 202 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:43.960 in The gulf Of. 203 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.000 Mexico up, north doing the same thing in the. Right. 204 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.320 Uh, no In iraq weate part Of Assault, division so 205 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:51.399 we were deploying marines. 206 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:51.840 Music? 207 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.519 Gotcha, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah all, right, Okay and so 208 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:58.639 you were out a couple of years before you joined the. 209 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.159 Army, uh it was roughly roughly nine, MONTHS i can't. 210 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.200 Exactly and THEN i got the recall. Letter so THEN 211 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:09.759 i had another three month process of getting into The 212 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.759 army and a second boot, camp which is. 213 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.399 Wonderful you weren't as young the second. Time all. Right 214 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:22.279 did you feel the? DIFFERENCE i can. Imagine, YEAH i 215 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:22.639 was very. 216 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:23.039 Different. 217 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:25.639 Uh and where'd you deploy in The? 218 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:29.519 ARMY i actually never deployed with. THEM i did help 219 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.320 with all their workups and things of that nature BECAUSE 220 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:32.960 i was only. 221 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:33.919 Doing one year. Contracts. 222 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:38.279 Gotcha and we were about to, deploy BUT i found 223 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.879 OUT i was having a little, girl SO i decided 224 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:41.879 not to extend my. 225 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.919 Contract that's WHEN i ended my military. Career got you? 226 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:50.279 Understood? Uh quickly a reminder ask everyone to get your phone, 227 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.919 out put this phone. NUMBER i get it in your 228 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:55.519 phone so you've got it when you need. It and 229 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.159 maybe you're not the one that needs, it but you 230 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.360 will come across somebody that needs, it so have in your. 231 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.559 Phone it's better to have something and not need it 232 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.000 than need it and not have. It so please put 233 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.039 this in your. Phone eight seven seven seven to one 234 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.279 seven seventy eight seventy. Three that is The Combat Trauma 235 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:14.480 Support line at THE Ptsd foundation Of, america answered twenty 236 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.720 four to seven by a combat, vet someone who's been 237 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:20.720 through our program and received a great deal of additional, 238 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.360 training or before they receive the opportunity to serve the 239 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.080 organization through the what we lovingly call THE bat. Phone 240 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:34.159 eight seven seven seven one SEVEN PTSDs eight seven seven 241 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:38.559 seven one seven seventy eight seventy. Three, again you never 242 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.480 know when you may come across a, veteran a family 243 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.360 member of a, veteran a friend of a veteran that, 244 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:47.440 knows somebody that's struggling and needs somebody that they can 245 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:50.639 talk to that actually, understands not a psych not someone 246 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.679 just reading answers off a, screen someone who's, deployed someone 247 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.600 who's been in, there someone who's, lost someone who's smelled it, 248 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:01.159 all seen it, all experienced it, all brought it home with, 249 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.320 them and then learned how to cope with that eight 250 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.120 seven seven seven one seven seventy eight seventy. Three the 251 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:12.679 website's ptsdusa dot org for all of the information about 252 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:16.480 not Only Camp, hope which is our interim housing. Program 253 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.519 we bring veterans in from all across the, country every 254 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:26.559 era of, combat every military, branch all the informations, there 255 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:30.200 all at zero cost to, you the family the, veteran zero. 256 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.519 Cost and in addition to, that we also have our 257 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.000 support groups that we run for combat, vets law, enforcement first, 258 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:41.440 responders contractors have been in those, groups and we also 259 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.919 run support groups for family. Members and that can be a, 260 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.200 family it can be, friend it can be even a, 261 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.639 neighbor just somebody that cares about someone who's struggling to 262 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:52.480 be a part of that support group and help get 263 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:57.080 informed about WHAT ptsd, is how it's showing up in 264 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.159 the behaviors of your love and your, friend and how 265 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:04.519 you can help support them in those moments of. CRISIS 266 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.840 ptsdusa dot. Org by the, way we've mentioned it a 267 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:13.240 couple of, times but here we are Next, saturday The 268 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:20.080 Crawfish bash down AND i think it's Basically Texas city Or. 269 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:23.600 Lamark maybe It's, lamark but it's what was called The 270 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:26.399 mall of The. Mainland it's right. There so many of 271 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.960 you ever have you ever gone To galveston From, Houston 272 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.759 you know where The mall of The mainland. Is but 273 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:36.120 there is a, major major crawfish. Event so this is 274 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:38.240 the one you do not want to. MISS i know 275 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:40.919 there's a lot of crawfish boils Around houston this time of. 276 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.639 Year this is the one you do not want to. 277 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:49.559 Miss there will be some sixty ish cook teams from 278 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:54.960 around noon to around. Six you can visit any or 279 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:58.559 all if you can eat that much crawfish that is 280 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.559 all you can eat for that say. HOURS i think 281 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.879 the wristbands right now are thirty. 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There oh, YEAH i mean just come see. 293 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:39.879 Us and the added bonus is you'll get to eat 294 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.000 some crawfish way. There it's, great but it's an all day. 295 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.559 Thing it's a lot of fun goes the party goes 296 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.440 on into the. NIGHT i leave before the party. Starts 297 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:52.000 i'll leave that to. Others but the crawfish, BASICALLY i 298 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.679 think it's noon to. Six they're serving the cook teams 299 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:58.960 and it's a lot of fun and supports a Great 300 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:02.480 Causets foundation Of america as well as a few other 301 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:05.680 small nonprofits that serve the children of the. 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Radio we do 313 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:43.400 appreciate you subscribing and. Sharing you never know who might 314 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.039 hear it and need The. Hope it's being offered TODAY 315 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:49.839 ptsdusa dot. Org road To Hope. Radio wherever you listen to, 316 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:51.799 podcasts we'll be right back with More road To Hope 317 00:17:51.880 --> 00:18:11.680 radio and were welcome you Back road To Hope. Radio 318 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.480 David malsby, here glad to have you. Along all, Right, 319 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.240 ben here's the question of the. Day are you ready 320 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:21.359 have crawlfish in wisconsinish. 321 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:23.440 All lobsters and you all got mug bugs down? 322 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.240 Here we? 323 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.160 Do, yeah we eat the claw meat on. Ours, okay all, 324 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:35.839 right very? Nice, yes makes. SENSE i like. IT i 325 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:37.279 presume you're a. CHEESEHEAD i. 326 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:37.680 Am. 327 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:39.799 YEAH i was afraid of. THAT i almost didn't ask 328 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:44.000 BECAUSE i assumed you were going to say. Yes, well 329 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.200 we have to limit how many people we allow in 330 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.039 a Camp hope at any given. Time from the other 331 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:54.599 side Of Mason Dixon, lines it's, just you, know we 332 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:56.599 gotta limit. That SO i don't know where we're at 333 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.160 on the ratio right. Now do that barbecue up? 334 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.599 There not really we. 335 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.079 Could i'm glad you don't even. Try that's that's the best. 336 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.200 News we actually we steal it from everyone else and 337 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:08.559 make it just a little bit. 338 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:13.480 Better by putting cheese on. IT i don't know what's 339 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:17.640 what's In wisconsin that makes it. Better i'm not so 340 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:18.240 sure about all. 341 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.640 That probably, not but we like to think so of. 342 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:25.119 Course you, yeah stay, Pride it's all. Good uh uh. 343 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:32.160 Okay so join The navy four years out roughly nine 344 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:38.119 MONTHS ishu into the army three years combat a lot 345 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:40.039 of snaps and grab you talk, about and the drug 346 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:46.680 stuff and going on. There when did you clearly your camp? 347 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.480 Hope so you clearly there's SOME ptsd that's going on. 348 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:53.039 There so when did you first notice something was not 349 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:54.599 what it should? 350 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:59.079 Be about three four years AFTER i got, out. 351 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:01.359 After you got up that was, yeah. 352 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.720 YEP i went to THE va AND i got the 353 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:11.279 whole meds. Schedule at one point they had gone through 354 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.400 twenty seven different, ones and THEN i didn't like them no, 355 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.680 more AND i quit and ended up just kind of 356 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:19.279 burying it to the best of my ability with work 357 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:20.519 and ANYTHING i could. 358 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:22.319 Find what kind of work did you? 359 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:23.559 Do landscape? 360 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:28.240 Designer, okay, ye my family has a pretty good sized garden. 361 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:30.200 Center that's WHAT i. 362 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:32.559 Did you'd enjoy the design, part. 363 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:36.079 Yeah, YEP a lot ate up a lot of. TIME 364 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:37.200 i can. 365 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.240 IMAGINE i would think seeing a design come to life 366 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:43.240 would have to be really a pretty cool. Experience. 367 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:47.240 Yeah it's from paper to actually be in. There it's 368 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:47.599 a lot of. 369 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:52.359 Joy, YEAH i can. Imagine so you obviously went home 370 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:54.440 after you got out of the. Military, YEP i went 371 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:57.599 back to. Hometown, okay so a few years, afterwards when 372 00:20:57.640 --> 00:20:59.839 you begin to notice something's, up what was the tail 373 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:00.759 to signs for you? 374 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:02.960 That, UH i have a lot of. 375 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:07.480 SECLUSION i did start drinking pretty good at that, time 376 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.079 AND i went in. CYCLES i might stop AND i come. 377 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:16.880 Back i'd have some angry issues here and, there actually 378 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:20.519 quite a few, times but and a lot of, anxiety 379 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:24.720 a lot of. Depression just then feel LIKE i had 380 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:27.480 a real place. ANYMORE i was kind of making things 381 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:29.480 up AS i went, along try to fill a hole 382 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:29.960 that wasn't. 383 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:31.920 There, sure that's way to put. 384 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:36.720 It justin he, mentioned you know the twenty seven. Meds 385 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.200 did when you went to THE, va did they throw 386 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.039 a bunch of pills at? You or, yep that's the first. 387 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:44.680 Thing it's, like you go. 388 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:47.640 THERE i was in the OEF oi of, clinic, Right 389 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:50.640 they have a lot of veterans come back to that go, 390 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:51.960 THROUGH i, know The HOUSTON. 391 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:54.440 Va that's how it. Is you go through the OEU 392 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:58.480 foi of. Clinic they talked to you and then they recommend, 393 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:01.039 it as you know the psych the psycle on the 394 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:04.400 sixth floor here In. Houston they recommend different type of. 395 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:06.119 Meds AND i would get on the meds for a, 396 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.839 while and you, said drinking on the meds and you, 397 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.440 know self medicating at the same time trying to take 398 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:16.400 the meds at the VA's offering. You it just gets 399 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:20.680 very confusing and very hard to adapt, to like reality 400 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:23.559 and what's reality and what they're trying to get me to. 401 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:28.119