How Does Surveying in Iraq Change Your Thinking?

I was the lowest guy when it came to ranking, right? And there were times that I was that first, you know, very scared 25 year old that had to be the first guy to enter a very hostile city. The general who or the colonel who made that plan had no idea about me. Didn't know what I was feeling. didn't know probably what the combat load that I was carrying. When I am thinking about the military and talking about,. you know, what they should or should not do, I think about someone that was in my shoes.