Welcome back to another episode of other people's lives. I'm Greg Dybeck. I'm Joe Sanagato and for those of you who are just listening

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Why don't you just tell us what we're gonna be talking about today?

Hey guys, my name is Sarge Mitchell and I'm gonna be talking about my experience in combat and PTSD

I can speak for Joe here. We're like completely ignorant to life in the army and

Yeah, I think it's like part of it fascinates us a little too. It's like it's like our obsession with prison

It's like Europe session. Okay, I'm my obsession. There's it's just it's something that's so fascinating

But I just cannot ever imagine being there um and and I want to ask you. I mean, we're how young were you

Um, I guess when you did join the militaries. It's something that you knew you you always wanted to do

So

Every I think unique story has has a good beginning right then mine was

You know my own experience was was very unique

I grew up a single child to a lesbian parent. I had no stability for you know

Met in my life or a masculine one type of energy in my life

So I knew at that

You know my junior high school. I knew like hey, I'm gonna go into the army and I want to be a ranger

So for some reason I just stuck with me. I don't really have a clue of what they were what they did

I know that's what I wanted to be

So I did the delayed and true program and it upjoined the army. This was like

2000 right? So this is all pre stuff that we know

Uh for this war and I was actually

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