One day in the winter of 2016–2017, Bauer complained to Weathers about their weight-room workouts. “You think this is fun?” said Weathers in response, while adding weights to a bar. “I’d rather be home with my wife. You’re being a bitch.” The surest way to anger Bauer is to call him a bitch. He stormed out of the gym. Whenever someone called Bauer a bitch, he thought back to Lone Survivor, the book by former US Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds and a broken leg in a Taliban ambush in the mountains of Afghanistan. If Luttrell could survive that, Bauer could finish
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