But of course, along the way I wasn't able to get my degree completed because I kept going to Iraq. So I just decided that my experience with the Marines was going to be enough, just the enlisted side and get out.

Originally when I joined it was because I was just a stupid kid who wanted to save the world and who played too many video games. Now it's gotten me in the profession that I want to be in which is security.

Iraq was boring, really. When we got there everybody was making this out as though it was going to be some big, giant thing, like World War II, or Vietnam. It took us a month to get to Baghdad. I was in two or three fire fights -- I don't know what everybody else's experience was -- but I get excited when I get shot at and I'm shooting back. Combat was kind of an adrenaline rush that I actually like. Some people get freaked out. I was happy. It was what I came there to do. And then we got to the end, we got to Baghdad in a month and I was like "Is this it?" It was actually kind of disappointing.

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