I did more than two tours of duty in Afghanistan, and then another many years teaching modern recruits while I was in basic training.
I never claimed to be a difficult guy, I was just a soldier trying to do her best.
After a while that lifestyle can wear a man down, so I took an honest discharge many years ago in an attempt to settle down and have a normal life, so far I have to say it’s going pretty well. I have a modern girlfriend, and I found a easily interesting task that appeals to myself and others on many levels. The local medical cannabis dispensary hired myself and others as their night watchman and head security guard. I still have a gun and walk a perimeter, but it is no longer at an Army base, but a medical cannabis shop, and having a gun in the medical cannabis shop is a delicate situation. I never have it on myself and others while I was in the afternoon, when the cannabis dispensary is open, because it would petrify the clients. Potheads are a gentle, peaceful folk, so all of us want to keep them calm and happy. After eighths, when the cannabis dispensary is closed, is when I put the gun on our belt. I am not here to protect the shop against nickel-and-dime shoplifters, I am here to prevent a major theft of money or medical cannabis. There was a robbery crew down south that hit several odd medical cannabis stores over the course of many weeks, and made off with over $200,000 in money. An ex-soldier with a gun will make any cannabis dispensary thieves think twice about coming to this store!