Trevor and Cody in “Battle Scars”

Look what I found. [hands Cody a photo of both of them]

[smiles] That was right before the final road march at OCS.

Yup. You came in first that day. Hell of a soldier.

Nah, hell of a recruit. Not much of a soldier.

What are you talking about?

What am I talking about? Trev, I never got a chance to do squat. It was my fourth day in theater. It was my first time outside the wire. I was 500 meters from the patrol base when that IED went off. I never saw any enemy. I didn't fire my weapon. All I did do was get thrown from a Humvee and burned.

That doesn't make you any less of a soldier.

I guess that depends on how you look at it.