 I am Sergeant First Class Mackie, I'm a 38 Zulu, Civil Affairs Senior Sergeant. So I enlisted in 2008, I enlisted into the California National Guard. From there I went active duty, my first duty station was South Korea. From there I went to Joint Base Lewis McCord and from Joint Base Lewis McCord I deployed to Afghanistan. Came back to Joint Base Lewis McCord and then from there I was then PCS to Germany. So I was in Germany before, in Graphenbier. From there I decided to go into Civil Affairs. How did I get into fighting? So when I was young I played all sorts of sports and I had a really good friend of mine. His name was Naim Tadbunya and he was from Kosovo, he was a Kosovo Albanian and he was a very good boxer. So because of him I got into boxing, we started boxing together at St. Genesee and I really liked it, I enjoyed it. It was something that came easy to me, so I just continued with that. But then I wanted to expand on my fighting, I liked Muay Thai and stuff like that so I got into Muay Thai as well. Did that, my brothers they also trained so I had my brothers to train with, we would spar every day and that's how I got into it. That's actually the reason I came to America is because in Sweden at the time you could not fight professionally and fortunately I've been able to fight a few times in the military. Actually I fought in South Korea when I was there, I fought the heavyweight champion of Korea and I also fought Naturell Kim. He was the 2009 Grand Prix World Champion for kickboxing and I fought him in Taiwan when I was stationed in Korea so I was able to fly to Taiwan and fight there. How am I feeling going into the fight? It's my thought process about it so I just came here, just PCS to Germany and I didn't have a lot of time to really prepare for the fight. I do have a good background in fighting so the main disadvantage for me is just building up my stamina. So I know I'm going to be at a disadvantage but I'm hoping that my willpower will push through that so I'm just going to prepare as much as I can before the fight and go there do my best and hopefully I prevail. How are you feeling? Feel good? Excited? Nervous? I'm feeling relaxed. Anything kind of you're thinking about right now or no? Just focused on the fight. Satisfied with how the fight happened? I feel good about the fight, I kind of knew that my stamina wasn't there but that just means I'll be back for sure, I'm going to be back.