started. and then the nightmares and that sort of stuff didn't happen until later. >> he joined the navy in 1995 and deployed to iraq. and he was a hospital core man second class. after serving for two months. he experienced something that stayed with him forever. >> i was in a humvee soft top and hit with an ia d in iraq. the bomb was approximately five feet from my dorwhen i was hit. i had a perforated eardrum and neck injure that was not figured out until a year later. i continued to serve. >> he served after the near death experience and in