How Combat In Iraq Changed My Life Forever | The War and Treaty | Michael Trotter Jr.

[@americanveteranscenter]

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[@nascarfan7676]

saw this guy in korea and was able to meet him he is a great guy. very relaxed. told me some of his stories and uplifted my spirits while overseas for 12 months

[@undrwtr84]

You can’t help but find a cook w a spatula running into combat hilarious. And to be able to credit your spouse w being the love and patience that helped you step forward in your struggle w the war you’ve fought is priceless

[@Debbie-vv8fw]

Only humorous if survived to tell the tale 🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@CONTRACTOR_SG3]

Everything this brother describes has such a soulfulness to it.

[@johnnunn8688]

The man with spatula, is a very brave man. To be so keen to help defend the fort and in so much of a hurry, he forgets his weapon. Brilliant!

[@justinm4363]

LOL no skills all so you could be was a fake cook because he's too fat to pass PT

[@blackened872]

This man saying that the love from his wife helped him get through his PTSD warmed my heart. I wish their were more couples like this. Not just military but in general. That’s what marriage really is.

[@ellieprice363]

Beautiful just beautiful. This humble veterans story is like a healing breath of fresh air for all injured veterans

[@vashmatrix5769]

Thanks for your service, brother.

[@jerrysullivan7223]

My son did three tours in Iraq and he's talked to me about what this soldier is saying , the adrenaline then the confusion realizing what just happened and what could have happened it still affects him to this day at times I just try to be there for him to talk to about those times and the fear he had butt still able to do his job my son was with the 101 first division he went in on the third day of the invasion from Kuwait all the wayto mosul. A

[@InkaPley]

❤

[@davidbailey6350]

A Gentle Giant Of A Man… God Bless Sir….

[@THATSWHATSUP.615]

If i could just be half as humble and well spoken as this man! Thanks for your service! 🇺🇸💪😇 RIP Specialist Jose Perez 🙏

[@michaelmartin5534]

30 year Viper crew chief here, hella respect for 'rifle carriers,' no matter what starts, you finish it!

[@firstaozlastaoz8212]

Michael, you are an instrument of God through your spoken voice relaying your experience as a proud American soldier. God bless you h Tanya. Saw you in NYC parade today h heard you both sing for the first time. Phenomenal . Your service is respected & appreciated.

[@cherokeeconcrete1986]

Don't wake the giant and don't scare the Cook. We appreciate you Bro💪🏾🤙🏽🇺🇲

[@karlbotkin2349]

OIF 3 '05-'06. U.S. Navy Customs Battalion PAPA, Charlie Company. Camp Patriot KNB Kuwait. Thank you Brother. Glad you made it back! Amen and Amen 🙏✋.

[@InkaPley]

❤❤

[@skydude77]

Thank you for sharing. Love you, brother. Stand strong for yourself and those who have touched you along the way

[@zworm2]

Beautifully answered and thank you for your service!

[@selfdefensecircle]

Fantastic interview. Thanks for your service and for sharing your story. God Bless The USA.

[@paulmccollough]

Thank you for your service!

[@jackiemontogmery125]

You are an amazing young man! Thank you for your service. I'm so thankful you made it home. God Bless you! Grammy from Texas

[@gstephen8949]

Had no idea he was a combat vet. I was introduced to him through the song hey driver with Zach Bryan and became and instant fan. God bless war and treaty

[@paulcurtis1159]

Great interview , great man . Thankyou to him and all that did and do serve

[@Solja_B05]

As a Veteran I also went to Fort Jackson then Fort Lee in 2004. It was the worst time of war going on. When you're in an infantry unit most likely you're going to war. My duty station was Fort Carson, Colorado which had been deployed and miraculously my last training before meeting up blew my knee cap, and shattered bones, and cartilage. I'm a 100% Veteran but I think about the what if's a lot. I also Thank God because my two brothers made it back home safely also in 2005. We would've been like the "Saving Private Ryan" 3 brothers had I gotten deployed. I love hearing his story and it gives me some closure on the what if's I was having and just count it as my blessing.

[@Newbobdole]

Whoa, I was in basic at Ft. Sill when he was in Iraq - it’s crazy to think how different the world was back then

[@gn4life84]

I grew up going to church at times with Michael & his brother Matthew. I went to the same church as his maternal grandparents. Talented is an understatement for their entire family. Their whole family was full of ridiculously talented musicians. This always shocked me because my family had ZERO musical talent. lol Was proud to call him & his brother friends. Great kids! Good times. They always treated my mother, my brother & myself like family. When I tell you seeing him preform as a kid & teen was like going to a concert its an understatement. At 40 years old I still have yet to hear ANYBODY close to as good as Michael live. It was mind blowing. A little hole in the wall church in the southeast suburbs of Cleveland would routinely be left speechless by this man's incredible gift & talent. Glad my old friend is doing so well & wish him & his family ALL the success in the world.

[@1-Hitter]

Thanks for your service. Love his sarcasm.

[@dariusqueen9615]

Yo he met his wife at laurel lakes in my hometown of laurel MD.. what a small world ..WOW and i came to this video for inspiration.. look at God!

[@64maxpower]

Love this dude. Love his humility

[@TheOnewhOknOwz]

Thank you for providing us with these insights. Very much appreciated !

[@DougsHomestead]

Air raid sirens...local fire station horn tears me up yet. Not happy with fireworks either.

[@Waylonthescienceguy]

I listened to his music, and he is incredible

[@jpwilliams6926]

Thank you for sharing your story brother. Awesome.

[@Samanthasupernovaa]

This is making me miss the military

[@stevej00]

God Bless you and Family!!

[@pDOT508]

We are truly free in this country because of those Americans who SERVE no matter how big or small. Thank YOU. 🇺🇸❤️🙏

[@dt9233]

So thankful KZbin gave this channel in my feed... Thanks. Love this mans Powerful story.💯💪👍👏👏👏👏

[@robertgreen9150]

Music IS salve for the soul !!

[@Adam-ze1jw]

If you sang for my cousin I thank you, if you didn’t get to sing for my cousin I thank you. I wish you peace and strength!

[@robertgreen9150]

We ALL love you!!

[@CanIPetDatDogg]

Hopefully he can talk to alot of young American men and let them know why discipline is good and needed. Also to not make mistakes and how it can destroy your life. That life can be amazing.

[@Murphturf408]

God bless you!

[@BroccoliHead7]

Thanks for your sacrifice

[@InkaPley]

Thank you for your service. What a wonderful story❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing. May G*d continue to bless and protect and guide your path of spreading light

[@kearnsey64]

Way to go Michael!! 😊

[@PhilipCallicoat-k9z]

A remarkable man🙏

[@tofuvisionstudios2877]

What could have happened it keeps me up every night

[@CaptainTy]

I played piano behind this guy on a gospel tour. Had no idea he was a vet lol that’s what’s up

[@LightWarriors4Life]

Amen 🙏🏼 brother 🇺🇸 Music is a form of light! 😊💫☀️

[@KingCharles3000]

This mans cool as hell

[@taureanbowe5667]

Just realized he performed at night two opening of wrestlemania 40

[@danam0228]

This guy is awesome 🎉

[@dalebelseth3058]

Good guy, good soul

[@tommierios6518]

Supply, huaaaaa!! thanks for telling your story.

[@tomg_2]

God bless you man. And thank God for your gift of singing.

[@jhonsepulvedo6750]

He's honest

[@j1st633]

Very Cool.

[@ronaldwarren5220]

May God bless you sir

[@toddanderson6775]

After the fight is over you start thinking about what if I did this or that. Could whatever been changed. Doing Doing that will eat you up. Just accept what's done is done

[@Ankylosaurus117]

I mean reverse duplicates. usually only want to end entire netbases either way. you can just build a new gate.

[@shepgip7779]

Deliverance works

[@alanhelton]

It is a rush. Neither good nor bad. Just hyper accentuated.

[@alanhelton]

Ironically, when I was droning people to death I too found singing to be my release. The day Sgt Cabrera startled me as I was singing on the intracoms at FOB Blessing. That’s a story worthy of this channel.

[@InkaPley]

​@❤alanhelton

[@Chilliestdawg]

So take me down a road that’s a little bit wiiiiindy

[@AndrewOldacre-o7u]

U never forget ur weapon

[@Rusty_shackleford]

Hey, this was my unit! 1st AD, 1/36IN out of Germany, we got involuntarily extended to 15 months on the first tour, then like he said, we turned around and did another 12 month deployment, which we were involuntarily extended again to 15 months. Our company left Jan 2006 ,got back March 2007. Unless another unit got screwed like this too, with back to back 15 month tours. I know this guy, just can't place him.

[@ojay8961]

You said BACK 2 BACK 15mo tours!!!! That's 36mos, you did 15 according to your math dimwit

[@RWR-nq4gd]

Boy it'd be pretty fucked if you were questioning his service based on your 21 year old memories eh? But that's not what you're doing, right?

[@Rusty_shackleford]

@@RWR-nq4gd Firstly, Go apologize to a plant for wasting the oxygen it created for you Idiocracy is a documentary, you're the star bud. If you read this like a normal person, I was actually verifying his service by saying he was in my unit. As for 21 year old memories, talk to any vet, we can tell you every little detail about someone we served with, operations we did together, etc. I love how people like you would never say something like this to my face.

[@JK-br1mu]

I thought those extensions were only for 3 months, not 6.

[@drgil65]

Army Units were extended in OIF, I recall 1st AD that we relieved in late 06 was in country for 18 months.

[@JK-br1mu]

@@drgil65 double extension

[@drgil65]

@@JK-br1mu yes

[@naturalconcretion]

Why is this guy 4 feet wide? 😮

[@hospicenursingab]

After the service, he begins eating burgers back to back.

[@CanIPetDatDogg]

Better than shots

[@bradmuehlenbein]

Yeah I’m sure Saddam sat at that piano and contemplated his life decisions while playing chopsticks. Somebody probably played it for him.

[@cadetmarine]

🫡

[@johnnunn8688]

Anyone know why Michael was sent to a non-deployable unit? After all, if they changed their mind, there cannot have been anything wrong with him; sickness/discipline etc.

[@PootieTang101]

it just happens. I was supposed to go to Sri Lanka as an attachment. After a week wait it was a change and go with the rest of my Company to Thailand. The Ethan Hawke film Good Kill is a good example

[@chadjones4236]

👊One of my regrets was voting for Bush a second time Iraq just like Nam was totally unnecessary waste of our soldiers lives they fight and die for each other🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Mr.Know.It_All]

Only a black American can have no kills and be the most important person in the unit. They paraded him around like Michael Jackson.😂

[@tuberculosisoxcart1685]

That’s the army for you… this guy is too much lol.

[@N2Mtns2]

How is that funny??

[@johnnunn8688]

@@N2Mtns2, I too, would like to know?

[@realfoggy]

Micheal laughed about it. The Army sometimes runs in spite of itself, like all of the government

[@joefrommontana252]

My military family is struggling to justify the Arlington fiasco along with the “sucker/loser” talk, McCain insults, and all the like. Any advice to keep them voting for Trump?

[@joefrommontana252]

Oh yeah. Any extra explanation for the Medal of Freedom being better than the Medal of Honor would be helpful too. Thank you.

[@gregfrancavilla3279]

Maybe they need to really look at themselves and question if voting for Trump is the right choice, even if it’s an uncomfortable one. He has a long history of disrespecting veterans.

[@vittoriovuocolo2438]

They are suckers and losers because they let MSNBC tell them what to think . I have some like that in my family They are lost causes. Some veterans are stupid.

[@scootar097]

Harris...really?

[@joefrommontana252]

@@scootar097 Now after all the crazy and racist stuff, oh yeah. Harris all the way.

[@AnjulaGodakumbura]

'Veteran' - A title given to an ignorant person who is sent to the battle front for politicians' personal gains and kept happy by being gloated about in public.

[@peqbox]

Aren’t you an intellectual ball of sunshine!

[@Arizonawatercolors]

Boy, have you got it wrong. It’s obvious you never served. Either that or your a Russian bot KZbin warned us about

[@VesTavia-nj4pk]

How many innocent women and children did you murder?

[@zacharyalger4568]

Blame the higher ups, not the soldiers. They’re just following orders.

[@peqbox]

Zero. You have no idea what fighting in asymmetric combat is like 😊

[@Mr_Originality]

@@peqboxyou sound dumb

[@maegeri007]

That’s an appropriate question to ask someone!!!!

[@TheCerebralDude]

Does being a troll pay well?