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war veteran tyler boudreaux
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tyler boudreaux as a twelve year veteran
of the marine corps infantry author
packing inferno
the on making of a marina book which
i've read cover to cover thanks for
coming in today
sure thanks for
so when did you were originally join the
military
hi enlisted i school in eighteen years
old and ninety nine
what made you doing that
on ajay for kind of a collection of the
usual reasons i was interested in going
to college
wants an adventure i was looking at me i
was interested in the
you know the number of nobility of
serving in the camaraderie and
now and it displays of the usual
collection of reasons and of course of
the time there was no water slow didn't
factor in in my
uh... to my decision
hounds
bands you know at the time we are still
in that cold war mode and and the idea
of the enemy was was you know the soviet
union and the
and the you know the residents of
tanks that they haven't said a so-so and
visions conflict that was my you know
that that's what my imagination
and what was what were your first arnold
two three four years like
but certainly infantry you throughout my
time in the marine corps
but uh...
my first year was in nineteen ninety
three and for the first two years i was
actually station as a guard
in new jersey
which was disappointing posts
because i was in new jersey
that i sold the 'cause the gulf war came
along
right hands as interest we all wanted to
to superiors
and this handy
and and completely different flavors and
you know the reputation of the vietnam
war the united states of guns very
unpopular feel for it over the decades
and i was given
you know there are almost set to know
about it when i was
uh... little
but some but the gulf war you know it's
extremely popular and it seemed like
everybody was forrest
and
i want to participate in the missed out
on that so i was uh... disappointed
about that so skip ahead to nine eleven
uh...
was that the title which being in the
military and you have kind of a longer
period where we can't discuss the stance
of the people tried after nine eleven to
kind of observed
the things change at that point within
the military
let let me tell you about what what i
got her personally
dot in summary i'd take it out of the
military mindless of time and i go to
college and i join the diya r_o_t_c_
what years after services from ninety
three dash seven aga and this is uh...
in an offer scoffs are session program
and during that time there is somalian
as yugoslavia both of both actions of
which have messed
and and i go back to the the infantry as
an officer
and
from about ninety eighty two thousand
and you know the world is all quiet and
nice to think of myself as
you know the world's greatest
peacekeeping because every time it
arrives for my hands is no longer and i
cannot
as the years go by and i gain seniority
and i gain time and everybody else is
sort of getting their combat experience
from me
this has become a real social and
professional pressure you know why
aren't you going to wars also i have a
void known of course it's just not like
that was a separate separate from the
pressure being put on your from outside
in the questions
were you personally just appointed sure
surely i mean i mean i was disappointed
because that was the culture i wasn't me
i was like i was living back in
you know and western mass my was in the
marine corps infantry and this is what
we do her warriors and we want to get a
chance to test them out of this is what
most marines wifes nominee of coney
island and this is the sort of the
dichotomy that
civilians a lot of times don't get any
in you know and part of us is that will
cause we don't want war in general but
then again is part of a civil war
warriors one oh if i didn't want to know
have a chance
you know goes still sort of swells in
the over the years
and u_s_ cabana eleven
you know i was i was ready to go you
know i envy all this was your course i
was upset about the you know the trade
center and you know any other attacks as
as many americans were
also it would not sure if this light ok
matthews the here's my
here's my interest for war
and so was the first then worry when you
found out that really recruits
uh... who can drink or boot camp in san
diego and somebody comes up here so that
there it was quarter of six in the
morning is that right when it actually
happened eight b forty five and he said
i was offered as i was asleep and
actually my uh... my wife had called me
cert on television and so you know i
mean right away oh i see i go crazy i
cut my hair
and you're going to work at a house
often go see my recruits and tell them
what's happening because they don't have
access to the risen were not so
and then of course you know very close
after reading the uh... invaded
afghanistan anton onto deval missing out
again
and and why is that it was it appliance
thing where you
as you've been a long enough we didn't
have to go or whatever about that when i
was a source of your oppose that's where
you are if you're in tupelo closed
unusable and if it does not have little
cause you don't explosions
for really happening everywhere or
censor and and and an unfortunate chance
from my point of view at this time
so town and now i'm trying to recruit
sees a young guys just kind of benefits
we must mission off and his party that's
jealous acknowledged agendas
for months and all i know and ten years
has still not me i was watching bright
ends
you know solicited and strong pressure
and then iraq comes along
uh... hands we have this
this uh... was presented to the public
is this
idea preventive
and the invasion hands weapons of mass
destruction
i have to say that at that time i
started to feel a little
reluctant
completely jazz and getting ahead of it
with my political since those uh...
having i was a political and didn't have
much tension utilitarian
from the time which many people speaking
dissecting about all this in a sense
your entire experiences nazism
republican conservative liberal you're
another having their first very conning
people attribute
conservatism to mansuri
and confiscating has probably accurate
but
no politically
my concerns is that
gathers is generally a political because
i think that they've use our services
like this is my role as well as you
politically yeah you know i can't go
takings one side of the other my role is
to follow orders yeah it's as easy to
just how to put it in the background so
happens with me as i feel is kind of
like just about right and i was on the
basis of my services and reserved
this is a feeling that we don't
we don't have people doing when i was
myself as one
defending something
staying up with a secluded but his ideas
hacking i just i was having difficulty
records on that
what happens is mini body my last
sunday's longing to go after the
accident site accidentally deleted
everything looks good as a friend of
mine who i think he's he's served time
in the readings
did he know him right after high school
what what's your sense of humility and
they are now he he voted for obama
present but i think he's somewhat
identifies it literally he did he have
the same kind of a series where it was
about policy issues just in the military
are you sure i think
but he's not as interesting as you grow
up in when i was in your house already
and uh... promote or anywhere
and just kind of ours is the moment
until they really
political
submitted again this is not uncommon
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interview with tyler boudreaux
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