You seem to have had a lot of combat experience in your life. Did your siblings or parents also have similar experiences?

I've invested a lot of time spent growing up in martial arts. It's gotten me in a bunch of bad fights that wish I could have avoided. Being also the youngest in a family without an available father. I was pressured to join the military because I wasn't succeeding in other academic areas at the time. Looking back on it now over a decade later I feel like I dodged a real bullet by refusing to go that route.

How did you cope from being away from your family for so much, I'm sure they missed you a lot.