Shirts are dumb.
Seeing off my brothers (Alan on the left, Davis in the middle) as they head to Kuwait for the Invasion of Iraq. Although I thought only one of them was going.
My amazing mother and my former Ranger cousin shortly after pinning on my Ranger tab.
Captain Morgan got the idea from Sergeant Best. Change my mind.
Best. Tinder. Profile. Pic. EVER. Swipe righteous.
Trying to pull off the Zoolander blue steel in full kit.
Not getting shot always sets you up for a good smile.
Basic training.
Basic bitch.
Basic training is meant to bind you to your brothers.
MREs are meant to bind your bowels into a balloon animal made out of poop.
Just a dude in the middle of somewhere.
Screening of Range 15, the zombie-apocalypse movie I made with my friends and fellow veterans, at Twentynine Palms.
More than mentors—a legacy we should all live. Brothers for life Dale Brehm (left) and Ricardo Barraza (right).
Respect.
Doing my best Stallone from Cliffhanger in the old Afghan.
Hey guys, check out my sweet beard while I contract!
From Ranger Battalion to being in business together, my man Rocco has always had my back.
Derek Weida and me shopping after skipping leg day.
Friends don’t let friends drink and fly. Just kidding, I can’t fly, but I can drink!
My beautiful mom and me at the Range 15 premiere.
Screening our movie in Iraq with a bunch of badasses.
The military version of Lyft.
Signing a whiskey bottle to a newborn baby was the least weird thing that happened at this Leadslingers Whiskey event.
Filming videos with Rocco and Pilot X. God bless America.
Grill sergeant.
Staying in shape after the military is SUPER challenging.
“It’s okay to live a life most people don’t understand.” —Fucking Pinterest quote
Little bird selfie.
Pretending to be an MMA fighter with actual MMA fighter Josh Tyler.
Best friends and broken arms. This is the garage where it all started, with Jarred Taylor and Rocco in El Paso, Texas.
Supporting one of my Black Rifle Coffee events.
I’d do Crossfit, but mini-guns aren’t part of the WOD.
Cool guys don’t look at explosions.
“No, that’s my trailer, Keith David, yours is over there. And by the way, that uniform is stolen valor.”
On the set of Range 15, goofing around.
I really just put this in the book because I think it’s adorable. Yes, I said adorable.
Contractually obligated to put Ross Patterson in the book twice. And oh yeah, that’s Marcus Luttrell and William Shatner too.
This should have been the book cover, but the publisher wanted to use something more “respectable” and “grown up” and “with less guns.”
For my beautiful mother, who has stood by me through success and failure while I chase my dreams, despite wishing for a girl when she was pregnant with me. Don’t worry, Mom, there is hope for me yet. Bruce Jenner didn’t transition until he was in his sixties.