{"id":320,"date":"2009-04-02T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2010-09-06T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:56:17","slug":"recon-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?page_id=320","title":{"rendered":"Recon Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My experiences with the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Force Recon Company, Camp Pendleton, California&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although it was an honor to serve with this unit, I must admit, that it was for one reason only.\u00a0 After returning from combat with Hotel Company, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Battalion, 7<sup>th<\/sup> Marines, I was hooked on Combat Adrenaline.<\/p>\n<p>I went through approximately 52 weeks of training during my time with this unit, and nothing came even close to the rush of combat.\u00a0 I parachuted out of air planes and helicopters, repelled off of cliffs and out of helicopters, jumped into the water trails of high speed boats, had submarines sink under me, swam miles in the ocean, worked underwater, went to schools like mountain war fare, desert war fare, worked with explosives, and fired wonderful weapons.\u00a0 During this time, I had a motorcycle, and when off base, would drink and push the bike to its limit.\u00a0 But again, nothing came close to the adrenaline of Combat.<\/p>\n<p>If I had only known then what I know now about the Beast side, the Primal side of our nature, I would have been able to not put myself and others at dangerous risk.\u00a0 Adrenaline is an opiate.\u00a0 And the closer you come to death, the greater the &#8220;HIT&#8221;.\u00a0 That level of adrenaline has no place in our lives in civilian society.\u00a0 It is the result of war, and needs to stay there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s absolutely necessary in battle, but not in a useful and productive life that is non-threatening to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My experiences with the 5th Force Recon Company, Camp Pendleton, California&#8230; Although it was an honor to serve with this unit, I must admit, that it was for one reason only.\u00a0 After returning from combat with Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?page_id=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions\/333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}