It was so much fun rolling across Uzbekistan dropping $100 bills everywhere and seeing crazy shit. I wouldn’t want to do that stuff again, but what a blast.

I’m so glad I’ve led an awesome life. It didn’t have to turn out that way and chances are it would not. But I made it be that way; I willed it.

If you want to know why I was dropping hundies like a gangsta rapper, that’s because the DoD gave me a big stack of money that I couldn’t bring back but could spend on anything in country. I don’t even know how much it was. Maybe $5,000? Government efficiency¹!

1. That’s because it was unknown how much we’d need, if we’d have access to anything at all, and unknown how long we’d be gone or what kind of trouble we might run into. Of course there’d be trouble, we were paratroopers!