The 18 X rate program was the, the Marines didn't have a direct route to go. When I went to the Army recruiter, they said, all right, well, here's this new program to make it special operations. It's like as clean of a track as you could possibly know. But they didn't call you. So you did, you did that after September 11th, but there was no room. No, right. And so you're just, you're carrying on with your life. All this other shit happens. Yeah. By the grace of God, like a week after the swimming incidents, the naked swimming incident, the phone rings. They say, hey

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