and become as navy seal. published one book already on photographs, humanitarian work, but most of us were just happening out looking for the next party, eric was already all over the world helping people, so pretty incredible. way smarter than me, way better looking than me. [laughter] all that good stuff. but when i met eric back in 2007, i had no idea of any of this, you know? he was just another, you know, person. he was a navy seal, i was a marine. he was another person just in iraq to do his job. and when i met him, he was totally unassuming. he never walked up to me and said, oh, by the way, i have a ph.d.. he just said i m here to help you find the bad guys in fallujah, and we re going to do what we have to do to get it done. there wasn t a whole lot of sleep a whole lot of eating, there wasn t a whole lot of anything going on for a long period of time other than just completing the mission and getting the job done. he was also the guy that strapped on a weapon and wa