You ever notice as vets you just meet and click [View all]

This morning at the ymca in locker room I had a dude approach me asking me about my hoodie.it has airborne wings and expert infantry badge on it. I earned them I told him their on my 214 I said jokingly, so in talking to this dude I find out he is former USMC infantry and he is around my age I’m 51 he is 49. And he joined the y to exercise and lose weight. I could tell he was a bit self conscious as we were talking in locker room. He mentioned I used to be skinny I jokingly said hey my wife refers to me as a human border collie or she says jokingly I’m running a metabolism like a meth head. As in I always have to be on the go even at 51. And one thing I carried over from being infantry thirty plus years ago is exercise running or light weights a lot of reps.

So I invited my new friend Jason to work out with Danica and i. So I said to him hey come work out with us on invite we do a round robin and he accepted. So I introduced him to Danica she is former 82nd as me I said Jason this is Danica she was military intel yes I know as we’re former infantry. We both know military and intelligence does not go hand in hand. It worked out well my vet friends we hit treadmill for cardio then took time to round robin today we did upper body with lite weights Wednesday will do lower body and abs.

And Danica is 28 I jokingly said she is one tattoo short of wearing a eye patch. Danica went to high school with our one daughter my wife and I have known her since she was in third grade. But today was good day as Jason will meet me Wednesday we exchange phone numbers and he wants to get down to below 300 in weight. I said hey bro just one step at a time. Kind of like humping a ruck we just get used to it. Like we did humping a ruck when we were infantry as teenagers. Don’t think of nothing more than next step as is what is.