I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.

People tell me I saved hundreds and hundreds of people. But I have to tell you: it’s not the people you saved that you remember. It’s the ones you couldn’t save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.

I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.