32 | Campbell

This is War

Incongruity

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🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The endurance that the military teaches can be carried over into civilian life, but it’s tricky. In the military you have to endure because it’s life and death. Outside the stakes don’t seem as high on the face of it, but they are. After all, the life and death struggle combat veterans endure is tied pretty directly to a quality of life they’ve come to expect at home.

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0:00.0	The blast went off, it was incredibly loud, very confusing, I had no idea what the hell
0:10.3	just happened and then the truck just kind of filled with dirt and dust.
0:15.0	One of the toughest things to convey, more difficult than violence and carnage, is that
0:19.3	what it takes to get through a combat tour is a whole new perspective on safety.
0:24.6	Safety is always an illusion, but nothing can pull away the curtain on that fact like
0:28.7	a year under constant attack.
0:31.3	Seeing your friends die and watching what appear to be invincible machines rendered useless
0:36.0	gives you a real sense that danger will always be with you, and you just have to get used
0:41.5	to it.
0:42.5	You know, I had to cut through the cloudiness of what just happened and immediately start
0:46.7	looking around for somebody to shoot.
0:56.8	What is true bravery?
0:58.8	What makes a hero a hero?
1:02.0	Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality
1:07.0	of what you're facing here and now.
1:10.7	When your life is in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed.
1:16.2	An original podcast from In-Congruity Media.
1:20.5	This is Anthony Russo and this.
1:26.8	Is war.
1:37.6	Eric Campbell was approaching his mid-twenties when he decided to join the army.
1:41.2	It was 2009 and the economy still was a disaster.
1:44.7	He had scored well on the test to become a police officer but none of the departments
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