Trey shares stories about his family’s influence on him enlisting, military experience, military medical training with a focus on battlefield trauma, resistance technique training (0:00), preparing for deployment, team roles during deployment in Afghanistan, adjusting to Afghan culture, experiencing live fire, first mission as a rear gunner not living up to his expectations (57:14), seasons affecting combat, motors being his favorite, coping with being in a firefight and coming back to the USA, being a private security contractor for diplomats in baghdad (1:44:30), “Best 1st for Last” wrestling an alligator to save his doge in a target retention pond.
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