I decided when I was in Afghanistan that I was going to work on two full sleeve tattoos. The right side was going to be "heaven" and the left side was going to be "hell" -- evil and good, just like Afghanistan. I was in the most dangerous part of that place for a year and I learned to take the good with the bad -- roll with the punches -- you can't really effect everything in life; sometimes you just have to take it. In Afghanistan I realized nothing is completely good and nothing is completely bad, some things just are. That's all that mission was. It was just bad throughout the day, and when the day's over you realize that it wasn't as bad as you thought it was when you were in it.

My main mission was to inform the infantry people that went outside the wire what was going to happen to them when they got on the road. Informing them of where they would most likely get hurt and how to avoid it -- lots of IED's -- no matter where you went, it was a bad trip, it was just hot spots everywhere.