"The whole reason I joined the Marines was to get away from a...

"The whole reason I joined the Marines was to get away from a bad situation at home. My older brother was one of the leaders of The Latin Kings gang, and he got sentenced to twelve years in prison. He actually got out of prison just as I was going through the Police Academy, and he even came to my graduation. You know what he told me one time when I visited him in prison, right before I deployed for Iraq? He told me: ‘I’m older than you. But you’re my big brother.’ That was so honest of him, it really fucked me up."