 I'd definitely take a bow for these guys in a heartbeat. They come before me, so I mean they, most of these guys have families, wives, kids, and I mean that's why I signed up to protect them, my freedom, their freedom, and everybody back home. I'm Lance Colbert Patrick Tommasi. I'm from Odessa, New York. I'm a Grenadier. My job is to hold security on compounds or wherever my squad leader needs me to basically lay rounds down with high explosives when they tell me to. I'm 20 years old. I'm in the Marine Corps and my job is very important and just because I'm 20 years old doesn't mean that I can't hold the responsibilities. I got a bunch of responsibilities on my shoulders trying to protect the Marines here and my brothers and just trying to get home safe. Being an infantryman, I mean your mind keeps growing. It's opening new ideas instead of just sticking to one thing and saying this is how I'm gonna do it. I try to learn from my mistakes and the mistakes of others just so nothing bad happens and try to better myself and other Marines that I'm with. I mean the locals, they're pretty friendly. There's a language barrier there so we can't really understand what they're saying directly but we go out there, we give candy to the kids and we try to talk to the older individuals and just see how the area works. My favorite parts would probably be hanging out with the guys. Just the experience that we all have. I mean even if it's a bad time, it's with them. These guys are family. They're my brothers. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I mean I'm protecting and serving my country. I'm doing what I like to do and just knowing that everybody's home safe and I'm here protecting them just makes me feel a lot better.