Dealing With Phillip: Ep. 14 Speaking With Phillip with My Marine Friend

DISCLAIMER: The cast of Dealing With Phillip are not mental health professionals. If you, or anyone you know, are having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1 (800) 273-8255 or text “go” to 741-741 to the Crisis Text Line. You are not alone. Many in this world love you, (including the members of this podcast). Feel free to share this episode with anybody. It's PG for a reason. In this episode: Andrew and his Marine friend talk about proper nomenclature for former marines, a history of friends, vet cliques, Andrew’s super manly day, swearing in airports, Baseball With Phillip, Flu in Fallujah, how to get to war, more baseball, the first time out, friendly fire, his first exposure to real combat, loss explained through Mario, American Sniper, PTSD stereotypes, “it was an honor,” the pros and cons of proposing before deployment, faith, Mass Effect anger, and computer stuff. Also, check out "Fallujah Awakens." It's an interesting story about marines life around the time of my marine friend's deployment. If you want to support Dealing with Phillip, please subscribe to us on itunes, soundcloud, and pretty much all the podcatchers out there. Please give us feedback so we can see what we are doing right and wrong. We'd really appreciate 4 or 5 star reviews. If you want to support DWP and the other Word Salad Productions podcasts (Quote Unquote Guilty, The Countdown, and CadaverCast), please go to https://www.patreon.com/WordSalad. Chip in a bit if you can.