 So we are on a routine mission to Maroof to local A&A compound. We took small-arm fire. Then we hit a telephone tower and flipped as we were landing. I pulled out eight of my squad members out with my 240 gunner. I just wanted my guy back. I just wanted Jake back. It's like what I did was what any NCO would do. This is the foundation of my support. I don't think I would have been anywhere I am accomplished without that support channel and that support system I have for my wife, my kid, and her family and my family. Going through aerosol school here in the 25th ID was the first time I was in a UH-60 after my accident. Needless to say I was super nervous. I talked to my platoon sergeant for hours to the point where he just told me you just need to get it done. You got to stop thinking so negatively that it's going to happen again when you have no idea what could happen. He told me to call my buddy who was also in the crash. He explained to me that I couldn't live in fear anymore. It was over a year. If I let that fear just cripple me and just handicap me, I wouldn't be able to go on and progress in my career. And I took that to heart and I'm still here. Four pictures laminated in my pocket throughout my major school. And every time I felt like I needed to, I wanted to quit. I would just reach into my pocket, pull those out, and just suck it up again. The most amazing feeling in my military career. You don't earn your tap. It's the guys around you and that is the truest statement in the book. Next to never forget anything. The guys that I was with just pulled me and some of the lowest times I had to graduate. But at graduation I got pinned by my wife. It was just a surreal experience. I had that no quit mentality. I felt that I was completely well trained up. I was looking at other competitors and everything. I felt personally that I could hang with the majority of everyone. But at Best Ranger, you had 51 teams, all Ranger qualified. And if not more qualified than that, I just felt just in awe of everything. My one piece of advice would be, you're not the first one to go through it. And you're not going to be the last one. As long as you take it day by day, even if you're only feeling better or less stressed, 1% every day. From the day before, that's still 1%.