You think that’s nuts? I was in 9th grade during 9/11. My dad deployed soon after with the Navy and many times while I was in high school.

Then, I graduated and joined the Marine Corps. I went on a “deployment” (read: MEU) and found myself in Bahrain for a few days.

Know who I ran into while doing Lance Corporal shit on America Alley? My dad. Ever get a disappointed Dad talk? Imagine one while drunk in a foreign country from your Navy SEAL father about how disappointed he was that his own son would lack the situational awareness to be as shiiiiiiiitfaced as I was, where I was.

I remember going back to ship and hearing, “It was glorious. He stood at parade rest for his own dad. And then his dad no shit said, ‘Don’t tell your mother about this, she thinks I’m training in Texas’.”