At the time he thought was to actually be an officer so I want to go to the Naval Academy. That was my original idea And thank God I didn't do that, but But yeah, so like that wasn't that was his thought process. He ended up enlisting in the Navy when he was 17 and went off to boot camp.
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He is a former Navy SEAL, and the author of “City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul”.
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