Ask The Operator: Former JTF2 Assaulter Reacts To YouTube Comment About Smoking

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Yes, we do in fact read the comments - for better or worse haha. This one was just too good to pass up.

[@armeddiver]

From the time I was 19 until I was 30 I was a three (3) pack a day smoker. I joined the Army when I was 21 because I couldn't find a job. Right after my 30th birthday three things happened almost simultaneously. First, I failed a PT test and had to be put on remedial PT, that was killing me because I was out of shape and winded from smoking. Secondly, I went scuba diving in a rough surf. We had to abort the dive and I didn't have the wind to get myself out of the surf and into shore. My dive buddy got out and then came back out to get me. Lastly, my then 3 year old son, pulled an ashtray off the table that shattered on the floor around him. He was barefoot. I stopped smoking cold turkey and I became a runner, which I kept up for the next twenty years, until I had to give it up because of damage to my back from Airborne school caught up with me. At that point I converted to being a gym rat. I am now 70 years old, I walk 3 miles every other day and I am told that I look 50. The whole point of me telling my story to you is, stopping tobacco and alcohol when you are young will pay huge dividends when you are old. I am fully retired and living the best days of my life. I have my physical issues, but I am still able to take a three day tactical rifle course and go hiking trails in Sedona, AZ. As someone, who has "been there and done that", I have this to say to you. If you want [real] quality of life when you are older give up the tobacco now. It is never too late.

[@BVBSEAN]

Wow a can a day to a can a month, good stuff Randy keep it up!!

[@gc4th]

Every time I hear the word "Dart," it reminds me of my birthplace... LOL!!!

[@user-pz3qn4br4r]

Insulter course 😂

[@XrayMike17plus1]

LOL, my remaing substance abuse habit is coffee. Dont think I'll ever kick that one.

[@toddlegari6611]

Was popular with the innuit guys when I worked security in Nunavut . I tried it and almost ralphed . Experience . Enjoy your broadcast .

[@bulldogsofeastvan5647]

When are vets going to step up and save canada?

[@markcameron6717]

It's as bad for you as smoking. ( physician)

[@pyeitme508]

Wow