His Best Friend Died Picking Up Trash Because Of A Lieutenant

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]He wanted to see you doing things. So, you know, he told us to get up and go out and police the area, which is pick up paper, you know, clean up the area.

[00:00:09]Uh but we're in a jumper and we're at a base camp.

[00:00:13]And my philosophy was I don't care what kind of papers out there laying around on the out there on the ground. What's What is that got to do with us? But he wanted to He wanted to see us up doing things. So, he told us to get up and do it and I couldn't I wouldn't get up.

[00:00:25]I said I'm resting. We just come back in off of patrol. I'm getting my rest. I'm cleaning my gear and stuff. You know, the hell with your pick up the paper.

[00:00:32]I'm not going to.

[00:00:34]My my bunk buddy that the with me, you know, he got up to go and I told him, "Don't go out there." I said, "Let the papers stay out there. We don't care."

[00:00:43]But he said, "No, he said he said the lieutenant said we got to go do it. I'm going to go do it."

[00:00:48]I said, "Okay."

[00:00:49]Well, when they got out there and started policing the area, we took in Tommy.

[00:00:53]And those guys were two four out on the perimeter to get back to safety.

[00:00:58]And And Rito was killed.

[00:01:10]He'll not die combat. I mean, that's He earned his life. He's out there picking up paper and lost his life.

[00:01:19]And you know, I don't hate people, but at that moment I hated that lieutenant cuz he caused that man his life, needless to say.

[00:01:30]Yeah.