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Thirty-six-year-old Craig Andrew Garrett was once a highly trained, skilled, and efficient soldier. In Garrett’s own mind, he was still all of those things. He figured you never really un-learn any of the things the military went to great lengths to train into you,. The fact that he was unceremoniously dumped from the military had no bearing on how he perceived himself now.
He learned quickly that the Army was all he ever wanted. It was his life. It was all he knew and all he ever wanted to know. He took to the strong discipline, the ball-breaking training, and the camaraderie of his fellow soldiers like he was born to it.
He joined the Army as soon as he left school at age seventeen and knew almost immediately that this was where he belonged. After living most of his young life to th
